M took the kids to the East side of the mountains on Christmas Eve morning to meet Sarah's family and do some sledding. They had a blast! Thanks to the cousins for sharing their snowboards!!

Tonight for Family Home Evening I have asked everyone to write down what Christmas means to them and then we will share it... But if I was not going to use words this video wraps it up beautifully. It makes me feel how I have always felt at Christmas... The love I feel for my Savior and his humble birth. The love I feel for my family as we celebrate his birth.
Merry Christmas to you all! I hope you will have a wonderful Christmas full of memories, love and feeling the sweet spirit of our Savior.

We actually got a snow day out of this snow storm.... We love it! There is just something about getting to stay home when you should be somewhere else. So lots of playing in the snow has been going on.

We are totally loving the snow pattern we are in. It snowed all day yesterday. Not hard, just a nice steady snow. So, of course, when the kids got home they went to work building snowmen and having fun. (Well, the little kids did. The big kids had homework. :( )

Last night we went to a dance/ balloon baseball/ hide the cell phone birthday party for our good friend Cayley! She is 11! Wow! We had a blast! Unfortunately my camera was dying and the pictures did not turn out very good. But here is what I have.... Happy Birthday, Cute Girl! We Love You!

I Love Christmas! It is my very favorite holiday. We put up our tree the other day and decorated the house. We had Christmas music going and it just felt wonderful! Tiny A put the angel on the top this year... Wow, She is getting so big....

After Thanksgiving we went to the ranch and had a great time. Little A went on her first real ride driving some cattle to another pasture. She had a blast. And so did I . It is so hard not to just sit down and cry when I am there because I miss it all so much....

So we had a great Thanksgiving with all of our family. We went to my Aunt and Uncle's home on Thanksgiving and had a scrumptious meal. I could not believe all of the food. And of course I ate just a little too much! :) I didn't get very many pictures while we were there. I was too busy visiting. Thanks Pam and Tom for hosting....










Then we had another thanksgiving dinner on Saturday. Again, It was wonderful. We played some football had a great dinner and did get some family pictures taken. We hope everyone had a fantastic day with their families!

Grandma Lynette, Grandpa Peter and All of the Grandkids.


Football!

Double A and Tiny A...

The entire Napier Family...

2 Nephi 22:2
Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid; for the Lord Jehova is my strength and my song; he also has become my salvation.

We are going to go down to Socorro tomorrow to spend thanksgiving with all of our wonderful family! We are so excited! I was reading some articles online this morning to get me ready for Thanksgiving. I found this one which is way too long to put on the blog but I'll put this link to it..

Here is a movie of our trip to Florida and Matt's Ironman.

Wow! This hits right on the mark! Someone mentioned this yesterday in church and I went online this morning to find it. It is very powerful! Especially in lew of all that is going on in California and in our government... Where did this country start to go wrong? You know, most schools do not even let you talk about Christmas anymore out of fear of offending someone. But yet, we are allowed to discuss every other religious holiday.... It really saddens me.. Read on.. It makes perfect sense! I am especially intrigued by Anne Graham's response to Hurricane Katrina. Definately worth thinking about.....

"The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.

My confession:
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees.
It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu . If people want a church, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew went to.
In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Katrina) Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?' In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.
Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK.
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace. Are you laughing? Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it. Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us. Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.
My Best Regards.
Honestly and respectfully,
Ben Stein"