Saturday morning snow heaven at the Caywavis's!!!

Saturday morning heaven! Snow angels, snowball fights, & of course building a snowman out back! Think Liam was mad at us for dressing him like a girl...lol (all we had in his size was his sisters' old snow gear)

Going to watch "Frozen" & pretending we're in Sochi

Awesome snowy day....couldn't have picked a more perfect day or place to take the kids to go see Frozen! Having such a magical time! The snow is so gorgeous. There's a new shopping center called "The Village" in Meridian & since we're into the whole Olympic spirit right now we figured it was like we were in Russia!

CHRISTMAS!!!

So we made the trip to Boise to spend the Holidays.
We spent Christmas Eve & Christmas with Jaime & her family & now we're at Chuck & Anne's for a little bit.
Needless to say, the kids are having a blast with all their cousins & the snow.
We miss all our California family & wish that we could see you, we love you all.
Here's some pics of what we've been up to for the past few days:

Cousins gathering to get Santa's cookies ready.

Trevor started out the morning bright-eyed & ready to go....

.... Olivia on the other hand was still a little sleepy.

HULK!!!!

tools are always awesome...

... more Hulk!

This picture cracks me up, she really thought she got a case of yogurt & was SO excited.

Baby Alive from Aunt Crista, major hit.

Wii zapper/ crossbow thingie from "his favorite mother-in-law ever"... thanks Dan & Kim.

I don't know Grandma, she might not like this Cinderella dress.... if we can ever get it off her we'll let you know.

I am sooo excited about this particular gift.

Trevor made it for me at school, it's my first official hand-made "Mommy" present.

I'm keeping it forever.

Ahhhhh! Harry Potter stuff!!!

Matching cousins...

Uncle Chuck showing Livvy her Disney Princess shirt.

Little Miss Julia's debut on our blog.

She's the newest cousin (Chuck & Anne's daughter), born on October 23rd.

Girl-cousins in the snow...

My daughter is so beautiful.

Rick pile-driving Josh.

Chuck plotting his attack against his little brother.

....and of course, Rick had to retaliate.

Trev just kicking back.

Everything that happened while we were studying for/ taking finals...

Whew!

We've been a little busy around here, I had no idea that graduating would be so tiring... I'm still waiting for the happy exciting "yippe" part to start, it still hasn't all sunk in yet.

Anyhow... aside from the studying & test-taking we managed to fit in some fun stuff with friends & family too. We played some games, went to ISU basketball games, helped our good friends the McConkies move (*sniff*), & helped even did some Christmas shopping.

Every year for my Birthday I want to go see the Nutcracker ballet. Rick isn't quite the fan so this year as part of my B-day & Cristmas Olivia & I got to go.
It was awesome & she loved it. By the drive home she was so exhausted but still couldn't stop talking about how the Nutcracker beat the mean Mouse King.


We took a short break from it all for the 1st official "play in the snow" of the season....

We also had a quick trip to Boise & saw some of the cousins.... much more of that in the weeks to come.