Christmas

Christmas Eve we went to my mom's house for our traditional pizza and wings dinner. The kids always get P.J. 's and a small gift to open. It is usually late when we get home and then Santa's helpers have to get to work. These helpers were up until 3am.

Christmas was so much fun. Getting ready is always a little stressful but when the day comes we always have fun. We got woke up by Garrett at 5am and he was told to go back to bed. Briauna woke up at 6am and then Garrett came in again at 6:30. So he then woke everyone else up. The gifts we a big hit and the whole opening part only lasted about 20 min.

When John was a missionary he had groucho marks glasses that he took pictures with every companion. I saw some at the dollar store and thought how fun it would be to takes pictures of each other with the glasses on. I gave them to him so we could take these silly pictures.

After our fun opening our gifts off to grandmas house we went for our big Christmas breakfast. I wait all year for it. The food is so good and there is always alot. The gift opening was a lot more civilized than normal so there was not as much caos. And nothing was lost in the paper. After grandma,s we went home for a quiet afternoon with some sleep and some playing. It was a great day. The kids make Christmas so fun.

I am so grateful to be around family during this season. We always have so much fun together. It is neat to see my 19yr and 15yr old nephew and neice play with my littlest kids. We are happy to have them around and we will miss Blake when he goes to UofA in Jan. We hope you all had a great Christmas and have fun taking all of the decorations down.