Christmas

On Christmas Eve we went up to Brian's parents house for the evening. We enjoyed a wonderful dinner, decorated some cookies for Santa. We sang some hymns, played some chimes, and watched a church movie on the birth of Christ. It was a wonderful laid back evening. We came home and headed to bed. Adalyn and I got up around 7:30, and Annika and Brian slept until about 8:30. When Annika finally woke up she said "we gotta go see if Santa came" she started heading down the stairs and saw her big barbie house and said " I got what I wanted!"



I think she was still trying to wake up because she just stood on the stairs for a while. We walked down stairs and she looked in her stocking, she got a Pez, which she was very happy about and just wanted me to put some candy in it. After she got her Pez figured out, she walked around the living room examining everyone's presents. I really think she just didn't know what to do. So we told her she could open the first present.

After that she caught on really fast, and she was getting presents for everyone else to open. Ady was fun to watch, and it was cute to watch Annika help Ady open her presents. Ady loves the leap frog table that she got. She thinks that she needs to be standing all of the time. And Annika took her unicorn pillow pet with her everywhere. We opened up all of our presents and then we had time to hang out and play.



Brian's family came down to see what the girls got, and then we left and headed up to my grandma's Christmas party. All of the great grand-kids did a nativity. It was fun to watch. After the party there, we headed back to my parents house.

We didn't get back there until about 10pm but we still exchanged family gifts. It was a lot of fun! Christmas was a long day. On Sunday we stayed at my parents house, and made a quick trip in to Logan to visit Brian's grandparents. Then headed back to my parents house to play games, eat lunch, and watch some movies. On Monday we went bowling and gathered everything up and headed home. It was a great Christmas!