Happy New Year!

This year for new years we went out to Uncle Seth and Aunt Pams and celebrated with their family and the missionaries. The missionaries have to be either in their apartment or with a members family by 6pm on New Years so it was fun to have them come celebrate...at least until 9pm :). Aunt Pam made her yummy clam chowder and rolls and we played Yahtzee and toasted in the New Year with Martinelli's sparkling cider at 8:45 pm before the missionaries had to leave :). I have not played Yahtzee since I was a little kid and we had a blast. Especially Austin. He thought it was so much fun to throw the dice out of the cup. He had a blast with his cousins. We had so much fun that Chris and I went and bought a Yahtzee game the next day and played with my parents for hours. I am the ultimate Yahtzee champion with a score of 485 on New Years day. I got 4 yahtzees in one game. I think I will save the score card and frame it. j/k. Below are some pictures from New Years.

Austin Toasting with Aunt Pam

Austin playing Yahtzee with Whitney

Austin with Elder Snyder and Elder Blatter

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Christmas

This year we were able to go to Arizona to visit Chris's family for Christmas. It was so fun to see everyone and Austin had a blast playing with his Aunt, Uncles, and Grandma and Grandpa. It was about 50 degrees warmer in Page than it was in Montana so that was quite a nice change. There was a Phoenix Suns theme to Christmas this year as there is many years in the Lane household. Austin got a Stoudemire jersey, a Phoenix Suns basketball, and a little tikes basketball hoop. His uncles taught him how to dunk it and give hi-five. He put on quite the show for everyone. He also got a sleeping bag for camping this summer and nice snow coat for the winter. His Aunt Roni brought him back a little t-shirt from Italy where she just spent the last semester. Needless to say Austin was very spoiled this Christmas! Chris and got spoiled too! Here are a couple pictures. I will post more later.

Austin was all tuckered from opening presents

His new coat and gloves are on top of him.

Chris in his new Suns attire

Austin in his Snowsuit

Look at that hair!!!!

So Austin's hair is getting really long. I was going to go have it cut before Christmas (this would be the sixth cut since he was born) but it was 24 degrees below zero that week and I didn't want to take him out of the house in that weather. I talked about doing it myself but Chris asked me if I would rather pay $10 for Austin to get his hair cut or have him walk around looking funny because his mommy didn't know what she was doing. So I agreed to not subject Austin to the outcome of Mommy with scissors. But one night Aunt Tiffany and I had a little bit of fun and put some gel in his hair. What a cutie!!!

Four Wheeler Rides

Austin loves this wood bear that is sitting on the bookshelf and the other day he decided it needed a ride on his four wheeler. So cute!

Austin and his Auntie

On Saturday we made a trip down to Rexburg, ID. My sister Tiffany is going to school there and she was a sweetheart and watched Austin so Chris and I could go to the temple. Below is a picture of the two of them together. Austin had a blast with his Aunt. When we came back he hardly noticed we'd been gone. Aunt Tiffany let him make a good mess of her apartment and they had lots of fun playing together! We went to dinner all together and Austin kept giving her big hugs! We love you Aunt Tiff! Thank you for giving Chris and I a break!

Yes Austin still lives with his parents