{Santa cookie dish made by Grandma Sue}
We had a great Christmas morning, a lot of firsts, our first Christmas with just the 4 of us, the first in our own home, and our first in our new house. The kids were so excited about presents they didn't fall asleep until AFTER midnight so at 9 am we had to WAKE them up. Anyone else have to wake their kids on Christmas morning? Didn't think so.
Just like when I was a kid, we did stockings first, the kids were so pumped with their toys from their stockings,w e could have been done after that. Ady was so grateful too. She kept saying "thank you thank you" It's so much more fun to give gifts to a thankful child.
Then we ate our traditional Christmas breakfast, and headed in to start on the gifts under the tree.
Ady wanted the Tinkerbelle movie so bad, she dug around under the tree looking for a DVD shaped gift, then said "Maybe this could be the Tinkerbelle movie" as she tore it open. She was so happy to FINALLY get it.
Max got an ELMO live and a small train set and was so pleased with those that we could not get him to open any other presents, he just wanted to play with those.
And Ady got all things princess, Eric, I think I have heard the word "princess" 100 times this morning.
After we finished gifts, we hurried and packed up and took off for my parents, they were calling my brother Spencer who is on his mission in Africa at 11 am, and we wanted to get some talk time too, but when we got to Centerville, it was 12:30 and they had not been able to get through to him in Africa yet. We tried all day and could never get through. It was so sad.
Both sets of my grandparents and Brady and his fiance were there to talk to him, and we never got through.
We opened presents and continued to try to call Spencer but by evening we decided to head up to my parents cabin in Wyoming and try again the next day.
At the cabin the next day we finally got a hold of Spencer mission president who got a hold of SPencer and had him call us at the cabin in Wyoming. We were so happy to finally hear his voice and stories. We miss him so so much!!
Then we got to have some fun snow time at the cabin, their was tons of it.
Did I mention the 2 hour drive to the cabin took 4 hours since we got stuck in a blizzard??? Insane!
{snow time}
{games}
{baking}
{cleaning the dishes}
We had such a great time!! Thanks mom and dad!!
10 comments:
Actually, we had to wake Lexie up to open presents. She is a sleeper-inner! Sounds like you guys had a fun Christmas. I'm sorry you couldn't talk to your brother Spencer. We were able to talk to my brother Quinton in the Knoxville, TN mission before he gets home in April. But I only got 3 minutes with him because we have a HUGE family and not enough time. Oh well! I guess that is a sacrifice you make being apart of a large family. Happy New Years!
What a great Christmas! I can't believe it's come and gone already! I'm glad you guys finally got a hold of your brother, it's so fun to talk to them. Hope you guys have a Happy New Year!
Oh and I love the ordaments, the turtle for Max is perfect!
I was starting to get nervous when you said you couldn't get through. Just because we got to talk to my brother on Christmas and I think I'd be in a full panic if we couldn't get through!! :) So glad you got to talk with him, having a brother on a mission is by far the coolest thing!
Looks like you all had a fun Christmas! I am so glad you were finally able to get a hold of Spencer!
what a fun day. you must have really patient kids. Mine were opening any bodies presents as quickly as possible. There is no way they could've eaten breakfast in between.
what a great day! Your kids are so cute! What great manners, too...with all the 'thank you's. I agree, there is nothing sweeter than an appreciative child. I'm curious to know what you/Eric received? Santa brought me the necklace I wanted! I also got a really cute one that is a two-sided picture frame to go w/ it. Fun stuff! Merry Christmas! I loved Ady in the tall boots! too cute!
So so fun! Glad you guys were able to have your first christmas as a family! We miss you guys!
Looks like you had a fabulous day! Merry Christmas!
Hey Hailey! I am looking for a YUMMY cheese fondue receipe! Since you are the gourmet cook would you mind sending me one of yours!!?? wholland@utopianet.org!
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