Christmas Vacation

we had SUCH a fun Christmas! My sister Meghan and her whole family came out to stay with us for 2 weeks! My girls love their kids so much. Especially baby Lilly!!
We had a gingerbread house contest and asked one of our neighbors to judge them. Meghan and I did one together, its the all white one below. My sister Jennifer did the bottom left one (and got 1st place) and my other sister Heather did the one on the bottom right.

We went and looked at Christmas lights and visited a place close to us called Santa's house where they decorate their house, Santa Claus is there and they give each kid a toy. SOO fun! We also went to Lego Land, once right before Christmas and once on New Years Day. New Years Day is definitely the day to go, there was NO ONE there, it was so much fun!

We made it to the beach one time because Meghan's kids never get to go to the beach. The water was freezing, but the kids didn't care, they had fun playing in the sand and water!

We went to Belmont Park one day where they have a bunch of rides right by the beach. We were also able to go ice skating and bowling. It was my girls first time going ice skating and they LOVED it, it looks like we might have to go back pretty soon.

On Christmas Eve we had a yummy dinner and then had a gift exchange, which my parents funded! We all went to the mall to get our gifts for the person's name we chose. Then Rob and I and Meghan and Mark put all of the gifts out for our kids, it was so much fun!

On Christmas day we opened our presents and then my mom and dad came up and brought dough with them to make Christmas Candy canes. They are delicious and we grew up eating them every Christmas. They stayed up really late making the dough and the filling so my dad fell asleep on the couch! :) Rob made some cotton candy with the girls, it was one of their presents that they were really excited about. That night we went to my sister's house to eat another yummy dinner and open up some more gifts! It was such a great Christmas. Thanks mom and dad!!

Christmas Pictures...

My talented sister Heather took our Christmas pictures this year and I loved how they turned out! She just started and she's doing such a great job!





And my other talented sister Jennifer made our cards! Thanks again you guys!

Husband Tag...

I was just looking back at some of my blog posts from a REALLY long time ago and I thought this one was pretty fun so I just had to post it again! :)


So I've been tagged like 4 times, but have never done it. I got tagged again to do my husband, but I would rather him write about it, so here it goes...

Since Liz didn't really want to brag about me and since I am pretty much my number one fan anyway...I figured what the heck...sure...I'll sit down and write a little bit about myself. I have also included this super sweet picture of myself. Man...I look good.
What is my name?
Robert Jared Judd

How long have you been together?
its been 6 years, 6 months, and 7 days since we first met. But, since Liz kind of had to warm up to me, I'd say we've been together 6 years 4 months and 3 days...

How long did you date?
shoot...we still date...like 3 times a month or something.

How old is he?
28...although people tell me I look 25

Who eats more?
Come on, I'm 6'3'' 215 lbs...who do you think?

Who said I love you first?
I'll be honest...no idea...I might have said, "I think I love you" after a few months?

Who is taller?
Seriously, if Liz was taller, I wouldn't be writing this because she would be a professional basketball player and I'd still be unmarried.

Who can sing better?
Liz won't even let me sing at FHE

Who is smarter?
No contest...I'm brilliant!

Who does the laundry?
I'm the best husband ever and I pretty much do it every night...by "doing the laundry" you mean putting it in the laundry basket, right?

Who pays the bills?
I'm an accountant...I LOVE IT...its in my blood!

Who sleeps on the right side?
If you ask Liz I usually sleep on the wrong side.

Who mows the lawn?
What is lawn?

Who cooks dinner?
Wahoos, Chilis, Sharky's and sometimes Liz or me

Who drives?
Well, we both have our licenses...

Who is more stubborn?
I have no idea on this one...pass

Who kissed who first?
I didn't want to do it, but she made me...

Who asked who out first?
If you count hanging out late at McDonalds as a date...then me...

Who proposed?
Put yourself in Liz's shoes...of course she did. Just kidding!

Who has more friends?
Liz

Who is more sensitive?
I can't say...I want to be sensitive to Liz's feelings...I wouldn't want to hurt her feelings by saying I'm more sensitive than her...I'm kind of sensitive like that.

Who has more siblings?
Tie--4 each

Who wears the pants?
I like to think that I do, but Liz has way more jeans then I do...so I'm not sure what that means?

I tag
Nathan and Scott (my brothers) - but Emily and Cheryl will have to tell them because I am pretty sure they'll never look at this blog.

Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving we went to St. George. The girls had a lot of fun seeing their cousins, although they missed their other cousins too who couldn't be there because their mom was having a baby! :) The Thanksgiving dinner was DELICIOUS!

Santa Claus came to the house on Saturday morning to visit the kids and give them some pajamas. Rob's mom had him come last year too, the kids were so excited to see him!! I'm so thankful for this time of year. We are super busy but it's soo much fun!!

My 30th Birthday...

For my 30th Birthday Rob's mom came down and watched the kids while I went to Las Vegas with my 4 sisters and mom! We had such a fun time. My sister Meghan just had a baby 3 months ago so she brought her little baby. She is such an adorable baby, although it took her some time to get used to 5 new faces as you can see in the picture below with her and my mom. We pretty much attacked her right when she came out of the airport!

When Meghan and I came back from the airport, our hotel room was decorated and they had a really yummy bundt cake for us to eat! Try not to look too close at the Glamour shots, seriously they are so ugly!

We did lots of shopping...

and eating and we got to see The Phantom of the Opera and Jersey Boys while we were there.

We got pedicures and went to the M&M store. When we were in there we saw Mark and Sunshine from the Biggest Loser! So we of course had to take a picture with them.:)

We had such a great time just being together, I loved every second of it! Thank you soooo very much mom for making it happen!!!

Halloween Weekend..

We started the weekend by getting Taylor and her cousin Ethan out of school a little early so that Jill and I could take the kids to Sea World. I love that place! Then the next day we went to a Scooby Doo Haunted House with my mom and sister Jill. After we left the Haunted House we went over to Scripps Ranch where they were giving away free candy in all of their stores which the kids loved! We then headed over to our Trunk-or-treat! We had a VERY busy day getting candy and more and more candy!
My mother-in-law went to Spain and bought these dresses and she let me borrow them for their halloween costumes. I decided to use the same hair things that the girls used last year when they were Mulan. This is Olivia, she really wanted her picture taken by herself.
Taylor also wanted a picture, I couldn't get Grace to take a picture!
The whole gang, minus my mom, she's taking the picture!

Merrick's Bday

It has been over a month since I posted but it's because we have been soo incredibly busy! We just moved into our house last Saturday and then my family came over last night to celebrate my nieces birthday. It was actually a really good thing too because it made Robert and I get soooo much done around the house. It was really fun to have everyone together!! Happy Birthday Merrick!