The Oldroyd Family

Santa came to our house this year!  It was a fun Christmas.  We started out the present opening by having the kids open new blankets - which they loved!  Sam grew up always setting his blanket out to open presents on and we've continued that tradition with our kids.   Some other gifts were: Nathan: A "real" football, BYU & Michigan t-shirts, a batman set, a new coat & hat, Planes the movie & Turbo for the Innotab. Alexa: An easel, a My Little Pony set, an American Girl doll, The Little Mermaid, a necklace making set, and a Hello Kitty Innotab game. Maxwell: A Geotrax Cars 2 set, a Planes Lego set, a coat and hat, a firetruck, Turbo the movie & Planes for the Innotab.  Another fun Oldroyd tradition we've carried on now is doing a scavenger hunt for the family gift!  This year, the family gift was a movie day to see Frozen, the new Disney movie, complete with drinks, Popcorn & candy!  (The scavenger hunt led ...

After a fun Christmas Eve night at Grandma & Grandpa's, we came home to get ready for Santa.  We opened our traditional Christmas Eve gift from Gma Marie & Gpa Ron - Jammies! We also left cookies, milk and... 1 carrot... for Santa & his reindeer.  We've got to plan better for those reindeer next year!

We've been married 10 whole years!  It's been a great decade. We celebrated with shopping, a movie & dinner at Tucanos.  Yum yum!  And I was actually able to enjoy it now that I'm not so morning/all-day sick!  Bonus! Happy Anniversary!  Here's to the next 10 years!

Mr. Personality is going to regret this one later.  I see wedding video material!

We went to see Dr. Adam today to see how baby is doing & confirm the gender.  She was still not 100% sure, but the ultrasound tech thought she knew last appointment, at 12 1/2 weeks (I'm 14 1/2 weeks now).  Here's a picture of our little guy... So it looks like Alexa will stay our only princess. It's a boy!

I didn't get around to mailing out a card this year, so we just emailed it!  Here it is: 2013  In Review - Oldroyd Edition January  - Alisha flies solo to Utah to celebrate Grandma Gines' 50th Birthday, we welcome Hank the puppy into our family, Alisha begins a new job working for BYU-I online teaching math. Sam & Alisha go on a cruise to Mexico with the Walkers, kids have a blast at home with Grandma & Grandpa February -  Max is potty trained - no diapers in this house!  He also moves to a toddler bed & gets rid of the binky (unwillingly).  Grandpa Ron comes for a visit during a work trip. Tax season starts - ugh.   March -  Nothing much going on in the Oldroyd home.  Just cute kids & trying to survive without Daddy during tax season. April -   Grandma Marie & Grandma Great Gines come for a visit over Easter, tax season ends, Daddy turns 35, Maxwell turns 3! May -  Our much awaited ...

Max is home sick.  Hank is right by his side taking care of him!  What a good puppy!

And we're pretty excited about it!  Christmastime is the BEST!