Christmas Memories

Making sugar cookies on Christmas Eve... egg free!

Reading the manger story out of the Bible and the kids wanting to act like Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus.
Christmas morning and all the presents.

We tried to barricade Megan in by putting the couch in the way, but unfortunately she still came into our bedroom not too early, 7am, but too early for us. We ended up waking up at 8am when Bryson woke up. Megan was also to excited to wait that she missed being in the pictures.

Megan opening her gifts, she was so excited about her wings that Santa brought, she wore them the rest of the day for as long as she could.
Bryson loved opening presents. He would open anything he could get his hands on. We had to make sure that he had one of his presents in his hands. He wasn't very excited about the clothes that we had gotten him.

I was surprised with a phone call from my little brother, BJ, who is serving his mission. It was really nice to talk to him.

We were also excited to have Josh's brother, Jacob & his wife, Julia, & their kids Loraya & Isaac come and spend the evening and rest of the weekend with us. We enjoyed a delicious ham dinner with all the fixins.

We had a lot of fun the rest of the week with them all here, but forgot to take pictures. But some of the highlights were... shopping at the mall for some deals, eating at BJs, going to the gym, playing games and getting a babysitter for the kids while just the adults went out to dinner and to see "7 pounds". We had a great time with all of them here and the kids seemed to have gotten along better this time. Bryson was constantly asking for Isaac and wanted to be with him which I thought was really cute.

We hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas and have a Happy New Year!