Christmas Card Pics

Here's some random pictures I took for this years Christmas card. Just thought I would share the cuteness.

2011 Christmas Card

So, this year I was super excited about my Christmas card idea. After it was done I ordered one from Walmart to make sure it looked ok before I ordered the rest. The colors didn't look good, they cut the card crooked, and after 2 days of trying to upload the cards on their site to edit them, I finally went in to try and do it in the store. They were completely unwilling to help and told me to check the site in a couple weeks. Stupid Walmart. Had I known that would happen I would've used pictures from a previous photo shoot instead of doing an entire new one. Waste of time. I'm so done using Walmart photo center. I gave up on my Christmas card idea and did another one. It still ended up darling. Next year I'll just try to keep things as simple as possible. Here's the finished product and Christmas letter.


Here's the Christmas card I worked forever on but Walmart apparently could only print ONE.
No denying it though...cute family!

DAMON AND ORA

Wow, what an amazing year…a year where we’ve been reminded once again of our overflowing blessings! Damon and I celebrate our wedding anniversary on December 18^th. 12 years! Time is flying by! Damon is loving his job at Zenger Folkman and I am loving being home chasing the kids around all day. Our lives are busy busy busy but we love it. I feel we are blessed beyond my wildest dreams. We thought we had the world with our 2 kids, yet didn’t know it could be even greater…baby # 3 to make everything even more perfect. We welcomed Nash McKay into our family on August 22^nd and he is amazing! He weighed 6 lbs 1 oz and was 18 inches long. Perfect. I love how he fits perfectly into our family. I love how Damon can make him laugh so hard. How he nuzzles his head under my chin and holds onto my hair. How Bailee can comfort him better than even his parents. How he can watch Trey play cars forever. It’s all amazing. I could go on forever, but don’t worry, I won’t. I’ll just let the kids do that for me.

BAILEE

My name is Bailee. I’m in 4^th grade and I am 9 1/2 years old! My favorite color is pink. I like holding my baby brother. I also like to ride bikes with Trey. I love to play with Monster High. I like to jump off swings and jump rope. I like to hang out with friends. I love school. I dance and do tumbling. I have the same ballet teacher that my mom had when she was a little girl. What I love about Christmas is going downstairs in the morning and opening up my presents and then hanging out with my family.

TREY

I love Nash. It’s about to be next Christmas. I love my hot wheels and I love my puzzles and I love my mommy. I love my daddy and he tickles me. I love my sister. I love playing with friends. I love doing centers in preschool. I am 4 years old and I am almost 5. My favorite thing to play is video games and football. I love setting up the Christmas tree and putting on the balls. This is my last words. (Translation. “I’m done with this, mom."

NASH

Hey! My name is Nash. AKA Nashy, Nashy Poo, or Nasher Smasher. Since I’m new around here my mom has to write this for me. Things have been pretty awesome, I have to admit. I am what you would call the center of attention. Yeah, I’m spoiled to death. I love to be held but I’m making things a little too easy on my parents because of how much I love my swing. Oh yeah, and my crib. I’ll sleep up to 13 hours at night, sometimes waking up for a bottle, sometimes not. I thought my mom needed a little reminder last night who was the boss around here, so I made her get up twice. Just had to shake things up a bit. My brother and sister ore pretty great. They fight over me, play toys with me, sing me songs, even dance around the room just to keep me smiling. We’ll see how long they can keep this up. It’s pretty sweet. My favorite thing in the world (other than ice cream on my binky), is snuggling. I know I’m supposed to be a man and all, but seriously, snuggling is the best. Ahhhh, life is just plain good.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Love, the Argyle family

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Thankful Thanksgiving!

My thankful list:

* Damon. I'm thankful that after 12 years of marriage we still love each other and want to spend eternity together. He makes me laugh every day and never takes anything too seriously. Don't think I could spend my life with someone who was super serious.
* Bailee. My princess. I'm so thankful for her. Heavenly Father knew I couldn't survive this life without having a daughter. I love how she's so much fun, such a hard worker, and so concerned about those around her. My sweetie.
* Trey. My buddy. He is my little shadow...always wanting to be next to me and complimenting me every second. I love how he is 100% boy and attracts friends like flies. He is so easy to get along with, and other than his wanting to wrestle everyone in sight, never causes a problem.
* Nash. My sweet baby. I am so completely and totally smitten by my little baby boy. I love how he is so content. Just chill. I love how big his mouth gets when he's happy. Can't imagine our life without him.
* Damon's job. So many people don't have jobs and I'm so grateful for Damon's. Not only is it a job, but it's a job that he loves. He's with good people all day and is appreciated for all his hard work. When it comes to his job, Damon gives 110%. I love that about him. It has taken 4 employees to take over his job at Ogio!
* Being a stay at home mom. I consider this one of the greatest blessings in my life. I'm also grateful I worked for a while when Bailee was younger so I can appreciate being home even more. I can't imagine not being there for Bailee when she struggles with her homework. Not being there for Trey when the crowd of friends form at the door wanting to play. Missing his sweet compliments throughout the day. I can't imagine missing one second of Nash. I hate how fast time is flying, but I love each of the baby phases and am so excited to see every one of them. I have no judgements whatsoever to mothers who work. I'm just grateful .
*The gospel. I would have nothing without this greatest blessing. Even when I question things, I still know I can't doubt it's truth. There are many situations in my life where my testimony has been strengthened. I'm grateful for the atonement, the power of prayer, the prophet, the scriptures, etc, etc, etc...and all that is part of the gospel.
* Mari. I'm grateful for and love all my siblings. Laura, Autumn, Mari, and John...Damon's siblings too. But Mari and I have a unique relationship. The girl has seriously done so much for me. Listened to my chit-chatting every day on the phone, done many sewing projects for my family and friends, done many photography projects for me, babysat for me, etc, etc. There is no one that knows me more than Damon, but there is no one that understands me better than her. I've tried to do some projects on my own, but seriously, it always sucks in comparison.
*Friends. I've been blessed with some amazing friends in my life. Each one entering my life at the perfect time. Some I've kept in touch with and some not. But here are the relationships that really stand out in my mind as ones handed to me by Christ himself EXACTLY when I needed them. Seriously. Katie Hyde, Todd Piquet, Heidi Smith, Annie Draper, Amanda Riggs, Jalaire Terry, and Cari Greer.
* Our country. Sometimes I wonder what on earth makes me deserve to be here, in a free country, in the gospel, with the family I've been given...when others don't have any of those things. Without our country I may not have our home, our freedom, our education, modern medicine, the amazing men and women who serve our country, etc. This may come as quite a shock to some of you, but had I not gotten married, I think I may have joined the army. (I've told Damon that but he doesn't believe me.) Yes, I know that I love being super girly, clean, indoors away from the cold, I have anxiety, and hate anything violent...but. But I also love feeling like a have a purpose, I love being physically challenged, I love knowing I can make a difference, etc. When John joined the guard I was so proud and slightly jealous. That's not the role for me in my life, but I am really grateful to those who serve our country.
*Health. All 5 of us are healthy. For how long this will last, I don't know. I see so many people with serious health issues and it's heartbreaking. Life is so fragile and I'm thankful we're all here. Health and happiness. That's all you can really ever ask for, right?
*Trials. Not that I like them, but I am thankful for them. Without them my thankful list wouldn't mean nearly as much to me.

I am grateful for many many more things but those are the ones I wanted to mention. I am so blessed!

This year for Thanksgiving we spent the day at Damon's parents house. Stuffing our faces, playing games, and (ahhhhh) being lazy. Good day.

Nash getting just a tad bit of attention.

And then Nash getting just a tad bit overwhelmed.

Turkey coma.

And last but not least. Thanks to the Ipad, we survived Black Friday.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Vacation at Park City

We decided to take a little vacation to Park City for a few days with our friends, the Greer's. A little hectic, a little crazy, a lot of kids, and a whole lot of fun! Mari and her kids also joined us for a day. We got a hotel suite and crammed us all in there. In total...5 adults and 10 kids. Damon and I slept in the living room so the kids could have the master bedroom. Seriously, it was the best idea of the trip. With that many kids we needed some separation for the sake of our sanity.

First thing the kids did when getting to their room? Why, Spongebob of course! What else? Chillin' on the bed in front of the TV.

We woke up bright and early the next morning to catch the bobsled race. The weather was beautiful! The storms were supposed to come the next couple days and did they ever! We did all our outside activities on the warm day then stayed indoors the next day while watching the snow pile up through the windows.
It's incredible how fast these bobsleds go. Just taking a picture was a challenge. The kids loved it...as did the adults. Here's a couple pics that actually worked.

Bailee and Kyle.

Trey man.

After the bobsled race we spent some time at Olympic Park, then at the outlets where we met up with Mari and her kids.

Driving out of Olympic Park we saw the German bobsled team. I had Damon pull over so I could hop out and take their picture. There were a couple other ladies doing the same thing and the team wanted us to climb in the sled for the pics. Pretty cool.

Later that day we took the bus to main street to do some window shopping and to go out to eat. The kids loved the bus! Here they are yelling for the bus to come. Love how excited the kids are!

We took the trolley on main street. Another very exciting thing for the kids.

Dinner was a zoo! There were no other kids around and then we walk in the restaurant with 10! The waiter was not that pleased. We ordered 6 pizzas! It ended up feeding us the rest of the trip though.
Cari taking desperate measures to keep the kids out of the road.

The rest of the evening we hung out, played games, ate treats, and laughed hysterically!

Damon sneaking a pic of Bill on the treadmill the next morning.

Thank goodness for lazy days, am I right? Definitely an important part of any vacation.

The kids anxiously waiting to go swimming.

Grizzly and baldy.

We ended the trip with more games, more goodies, and watching the BYU football game. Thanks for sharing an awesome weekend with us, Greer's and Farr's!