Price Family Christmas Dinner

Okay, I was a dork and didn't take my camera. So I have NO pictures of Christmas at home, nor of our Christmas dinner at my brother Dave's house. Thanks to my sister, Traci (whose blog I pirated these pictures from), there is a record that the Prices do things as a family often... well, semi-often... okay, on major Holidays such as Christmas, Thanksgiving (odd years) and Kwanzaa.

To start things off, Dave made us some awesome ribs. Lots of different flavors too. I was so full!


We all chipped in and got my mom a walker with her specifications; i.e. a) over-sized tires, b) a basket, c) large seat (in case she and Dad want to share - or Caleb wants to ride along) and an 8-track tape of Neil Diamond's greatest hits.


As the "adults" played a game of 5 crowns, Ella and Caleb chased each other around the house screaming and trying to scare each other. I wish I had some footage of that one. I think it was Grandpa's fault for getting Ella all wired up to begin with. Maybe they'll do it again tonight when we're at Joe and Amanda's house for the New Year's celebration.

... here are some pictures of New Years Eve. Caleb and Ella kept chasing each other around the house laughing and screaming. Oh boy!

Amy's family

Gilbert Family Reunion

Okay, so we were out of the car for maybe a total of 15 minutes this day. It was December 23rd and Katie and Clint had just arrived from a 4 hour drive from Grand Junction, Colorado - where they live. Jon had a couple of hours and Amy had asked him to take some pictures since the last ones that were taken were 3 yrs ago right after Kevin got home from his mission.

Anyway, Katie and Clint pull up in the minivan and Jon shows up at the same time. While the Davis' are changing into "picture clothes" Jon is busy snapping a bunch of individual pictures and couples pictures on our front porch... I'll post those on this site once he emails them to me. Then we high-tail it up American Fork Canyon to Tibble Fork reservoir. Jon has taken many people's family pictures and engagement pictures at this location. He brought a couple of small stools that we threw out and shoved into the snow, then he arrainged all of us where he wanted us to stand... took some entire family pictures, then some individual family pictures and then we all hopped into the car and headed back down because it was like 10 degrees outside. I think he photoshop'd out everyone's breath and Amy's purple cheeks:)

Here are some pictures Jon took of us on our front porch...

Fishin' on the Bayou

This weekend we got a chance to go down to the Voisin family camp. It's a cabin-like house built up on piers over part of the bayou as you go toward some of the brack-ish lakes on the way to the Gulf.

Here are some pictures of some of the other "camps" along the way to the river.

Some are built up pretty high.

Some are actually pretty nice...

Others are cpretty close together...

Here's Jenny and Scottie coming out ready to head out on the boat.

So I'm in the bathroom inside the house when Greg comes running to tell me that Amy had caught a fish and to bring the camera. I go running down the dock so proud of my little wife who I didn't know could fish. I get there and she's got a big limp fish on the line... I think to myself, "Wow, I must have taken a long time getting down here, the thing isn't even moving."

Amy could barely even hold it up... it was a sheep head fish which we'd caught a few just like it earlier in the day. Later they all started laughing because Greg had just stuck one of the fish we'd caught that morning on a hook and tossed the line in the water to make it look like Amy had caught it. What a deception!!!

These are some of the ugliest fish I've ever seen. They call them sheep head fish because they actually have teeth like a sheep which are used to open up clams and eat them. Pretty gross!!!

Caleb had a great time... he just ran from one room to the next, to the next and inbetween would hold down the tap on the bottled water jug (which we eventually had to hide in the bathroom).

It was a pretty nice day too... about 76 degrees with a little breez. When we woke up at 5:00am to go fhishing, it was pretty cold, though.

We had this boat so overloaded when we left the back was only about 2-3 inches out of the water.

Greg would make a great river boat captain.

Caleb looks like he's doing fine now, but he was faking...

Caleb's Christmas hat

Caleb sure does love this Christmas hat. I I think he thinks that it gives him invisible powers, or permission to just get into whatever cabinet he wants.

Caleb's vacuum

We were at Greg's parents home for Thanksgiving dinner and afterward Caleb went out back to play with this little vacuum. He LOVED it. He wouldn't put it down. He wouldn't leave it.

He would "fix it" if it was broken...

He would carry it if it got stuck...

Would pull it...

He would pull it some more... until he found...

THE SWING SET!!!

He loved going down the slide and could do it by himself after just a couple of trips.He kept trying to kick the other kids off so he could use the steering wheel - we'll need to work on his sharing skills.My favorite part was watching him try to walk up the slide. He kept getting stuck, so I'd hold his hands and then he'd walk right up as fast as he could at a 45 degree angle until he got to the top.

Bayou Swamp Tour

We decided to go on a little Cajun swamp tour yesterday. It was really cool. The only problem is that the temperature was 65 degress (it had been below 30 a couple of nights before) when we went out and the tour guide said when the temperature hits 72 degrees the alligators will burrow themselves underwater and hibernate. They live off the fat they've accumulated during the summer months and they get oxygen through their bottom jaw (kind of like gills).

We decided to go on a little Cajun swamp tour yesterday. It was really cool. The only problem is that the temperature was 65 degress (it had been below 30 a couple of nights before) when we went out and the tour guide said when the temperature hits 72 degrees the alligators will burrow themselves underwater and hibernate. They live off the fat they've accumulated during the summer months and they get oxygen through their bottom jaw (kind of like gills).