upclose & personal: Lets play CATCH UP!

i am very sad with myself. blogging is like one thing that i tried really hard to keep up with and i failed. big time! ha a month without a single post is more than sad. so here we go.

so the last time i wrote anything was right before i headed back to good ol vegas for christmas break. i was home for about a month. it was a good visit home. cant lie- im ready to go back forsure. which i will be soon!

k anyway- to sum up my break it was amazing. christmas was great, new years was fun & being able to see everyone else that has also been away due to school was great. the funny thing about going home is realizing how much has changed. i kinda expect things to stay the way they are once i leave and they just never do. one thing is jacob. he is huge. it makes me sad how much bigger and stronger and buffer he is now. its awesome cus hes a beast but i miss my baby brother sometimes. another thing is my house. haha chiane moved in around the end of november. i am SO happy she is there. its great. she kinda fills my spot :) she is a good help around the house and fits right in just like she always has. cruz is another one who is just growing up. hes just as tall as me and his voice is soooo deep. like where are these men coming from?!

my BEAST 14 year old brother who btw got bumped up to varsity for wrestling! & also won 1st place.

my crusty busty cruz who is recently a navajo indian.

the newest addition to the littlefield home chiane :)

so i guess i could start with like christmas stuff & go from there. so christmas eve morning my family went to breakfast. we each could invite someone except for marley. ahahah but yeah i brought tanner, mad brought maya & so on.

my brothers <3

it was really fun to be with people that i love that morning. we had a lot of fun. that night i went to tanners for his family get together. i love being with his family too. spending christmas eve with people that i truly care about was perfect.

so if you dont know my family well enough- we always open all of our presents on christmas eve. so when i got home marley was extremely anxious and just didnt wanna wait. of course my mom and dad stopped her and we read the christmas story out of the bible first and got to change into our PJs. after that we each got out gifts to open. my family also has tradition that we get 3 gifts each. a spiritual gift, a gift we need and a gift we want. my mom decided that since jesus got three gifts when he was born then thats also what we would get. so yeah everyone got what they wanted and all 6 of us kids were happy.

my dad even got a new watch that he wanted. he sat on the couch for about 25 min with his watch just figuring it out and whatnot as we took lots of pictures. hahaha we all went to bed and woke up to SURPRISE! no santa hahaha. thats kind of an inside joke, but anyway next tradition is breakfast christmas morning at aunt wendys house. we've done it since i can remember and its ALWAYS a blast. we laugh too much and pick on eachother a lot which makes it even better. it stinks that aunt laana and uncle eddie along with the boys are too far up in oregon. i really miss them on the holidays. but yeah we ate and took pictures again. heres a quick video that could easily sum up the amount of effort it takes to get 12 grandkids in the picture.

i really love my family more than anything probably. as we grow up we get so much closer. the holidays just mean that much more.

another thing i really thought about this christmas was about my grandpa littlefield. a few years back he was really sick with non-alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver. it was really hard as the tight knit family we are to see him sick and in pain like that. i am thankful each and everyday that we still have him here. he is the best grandpa anyone could have. hes stepped in to be a papa to soo many people and is the most lovable man ever. i am so thankful for his transplant and for nikolas (his donor). our family truly wouldnt be the same without him around.

that night was the LNG family party. which for those who dont know- my moms cousins. its always so much fun to get all of us together. were loud and funny and theres too much food. we started a new tradition that night- a dance off. it was hilarious.