Grandpa Curtis

We had our annual Curtis Family Christmas Party on Saturday December 19th, at Grandpa Curtis' house. We enjoyed a wonderful evening of food, games, stories and of course presents. We've started a new tradition of putting together Frosty the Snowman...last year Aunt Jennie made us this BIG snowman and we each get a turn putting all his parts on him. I've attached pictures of each family in the posts below. We all enjoyed this wonderful Christmas holiday and the opportunity to be together as a family and celebrate our Saviors birth and life.

We hope you all had a wonderful and Merry Christmas and that the coming year brings much happiness, peace and joy!!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year from the Bruce Curtis Family!

The Cook Family

Patricia

Kolbie

Miriam

Darwin

The Harper Family

Cheryl

Curtis

Kyrsten

Cheryl's "friend" Todd Jex :-)

The Chris Curtis Family

Dallin

Marie

Cambri

Chris

Kaili

The Wilding Family

Jeffery

Austin

Aunt Jennie

Samantha

Uncle Todd

Curtis Family Summer Get-Together

We had our annual Curtis Family Summer Reunion this past weekend. We camped at Lost Creek Campground near Mirror Lake in the Uintah's. We had a great time visiting, eating, fishing, hiking and playing together. Uncle Todd caught a fish while we were hiking around Mirror Lake.
Hiking around Mirror Lake.

Decorating our yearly journal notebooks. We have made getting a journal a yearly tradition in the hopes that the kids will get into the habit of journaling about all the wonderful experiences they have throughout the year. This year we decided to let them decorate their own journals. It was so much fun to see the different personalities shine thru!

More decorating.

And the new addition to the group....we were lucky enough to enjoy the presence of this HUGE Bull Moose. He kept his distance very nicely in the meadow, but it was so much fun to watch this guy around camp and the photographers in the family really enjoyed practicing their skills.

We have a wonderful family and I'm so very grateful we have made this a yearly tradition. I'm definitely looking forward to next years activities!

Early Easter for the Curtis Family

Jennie, Todd & family decided this was going to be the best weekend for them to come down for a visit, so we decided to celebrate Easter a little early... I made the kids sit on the front porch and show me their empty baskets.
Then they were off...gather as many eggs as you can. (We try to make sure all the kids get the same number of eggs....Jennie and I can't do math, there was some confusion on how many eggs they could gather up...8, 10, who knows!! at least in the end we figured it out and they all were happy!!)

Kyrsten was such a good cousin, she helped Miriam find all the eggs and only ended up with 1 in her basket (see above comments. . . she did end up with the same as everyone else!!)

Here they are with their "stash" of sugar high candy!!

We couldn't possibly leave the adults out. Last year I made each family a basket liner with their names on them. Needless to say, the adults made out as well, Thank you Grandpa!! (Grandma taught you well....we had more than enough candy to last the week!!)

We hope you all have a wonderful Easter week

Love the Curtis Family

Just look @ those KIDS!

Grandpa's the name, Spoiling's the Game!

We may not have it all together, but TOGETHER we have it ALL!

Anniversary

On January 30, 1970, our wonderful Mom and Dad were sealed for Eternity in the St. George, Utah Temple...This began a wonderful journey that we have each been blessed to be a part of!! As with most journey's it hasn't been all smiles and sunny days, there were great days, wonderful days, hard days and extremely sad days...but the most important thing was being able to spend these days together. Thank you Mom and Dad for starting our family off on the right foot and down the right path!!
What a wonderful legacy we enjoy as a family. We all miss Mom and especially on days like this, but we know we will be with her again someday and I for one am so very grateful for the blessings of the temple and the wonderful blessings and promises that were made that winter day that Mom & Dad were sealed to each other. Happy Anniversary Mom & Dad, thank you for teaching us and loving us...We Love You!

Families truly can be Together Forever!

Happy Birthday to you!

We celebrated birthday's this past Saturday night. We celebrated the December birthdays (better late than never).. Curtis (1st), Kaili (21st) and Todd (25th), as well as Dallin's upcoming birthday Feb. 5th. Here is our cake...since we have a few family members that cannot/don't like nuts, I did a Swiss Chocolate cake with half chocolate frosting and half coconut pecan. I aim to please :)
Time to open presents...it's nice to have a family room that will pretty much comfortably fit all of us (thanks Mom!!)
Curtis checking out his new gifts...he's so much fun to watch opening presents and the joy on his face with each new item that's just for him.

Samantha helping Kaili open her presents.

Can't have a family party without food!!! Here we are dishing up some fabulous sloppy joes. Grandpa sure knows how to cook!! He made a wonderful sloppy joe mix!!

Happy Birthday Curtis, Kaili, Todd and Dallin...we hope it was/is a great day!

We love you tons!