Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Christmas Day!

Merry Christmas!
We woke up Monday morning to find Santa's gifts under the tree!  Everyone was so excited...and to wake up to a white Christmas made it even more special.  Too bad I didn't get a picture of Darran and Talia spending part of their morning shoveling!
Karisa loved opening presents!





Books from Santa!



Photographer and natural gusher!

Gift from Dallan and April that we can take up to Cocolalla!
Opening family gifts...




Karisa trying out her new microphone!


Owl slippers...and BYU tie.

 Gift from Jon and Audrey...Hungry Hungry Hippo and Minion Operation.
 Then the troops started to show up!
Grandpa Great even played a little Perfection with Lydia and Avery!



 Grandma Great and Karisa having a conversation!
 The whole gang opening presents from Grandpa and Grandma and each other.




 And the present we were sooooo excited about....we're going to DISNEY WORLD!!!!!!
We leave on January 13th with Grandpa, Grandma, Dallin/Cassie, and Tami.  We can't wait!!!!!







 Before dinner we had a little Christmas entertainment.  Eliza and Kylie also played their Christmas recital songs.
 Grandpa Great and Ella.
 And then it was time for dinner.  Mark and Cheryl Dalby flew into Pasco to spend the next week with Grandpa and Grandma so it was nice to have them with us.  Nick and Sydney Jordan brought their girls from Yakima and joined us for dinner.  It was so great to have extended family with us.




 Singing their hearts out on their new Karaoke machine.

What a wonderful day filled with family and the Christmas spirit!
We are so incredibly blessed!  It's a special day to be able to reflect on the birth of the Savior and all that His life means to us.
Merry Christmas!

Christmas Eve!

On Christmas Eve day we had church at 8:30am (so happy to be at the end of this)!  Since we just had Sacrament meeting when we got home we had a whole day in front of us!


We were fortunate to have a concert performed for us with lots of Christmas songs!  (And we skyped with Nana and Papa for the last time on their mission!)

And we had fun finding funny apps on our phone cameras!







After Lydia and Karisa woke up from their naps we headed over to Grandma and Grandpa's for a bit.  We played some games and visited with cousins.  Then we made our way over to Chris and Missy's for Christmas Eve dinner.  AND...the whole time it was snowing!  We were going to have a white Christmas!




 We acted out the Nativity...Talia and Maddox were Mary and Joseph and Ethan was baby Jesus!
 Our little sheep!




 Then we tried something different this year and the cousins exchanged socks filled with candy and a special note to them written by whomever had them.







 Cousins in their Christmas pajamas!  We forgot to bring ours...oops.
 Dessert!

 After we got home we changed into Christmas pajamas and the girls opened up their presents of new ornaments.

 Eliza got an owl with books...both things she LOVES!
 Talia got a soccer player!
 Lydia got Owlette from PJ Masks.
 And Karisa got Santa with a reindeer!  She loves HO!HO! and DEER!

Then it was off to bed to wait for Santa to come.  Merry Christmas Eve!

Pictures with Grandpa and Grandma...


Before we had Lydia's birthday celebration with family Grandpa and Grandma took pictures with all the grandkids.  Dallin did a nice job taking them.  (I don't currently have one with all the grandkids.)

Carousel...

On Friday, December 22, Talia was invited to her friend Charli Kent's birthday party.  When we picked her up this was what she looked like!  We were headed to the Carousel with cousins after that so she got to be a tiger around town!

 They had reindeer outside of the Carousel.
 Brayden and Eliza.
 Avery was at the Carousel with us too but I guess I didn't get any pictures with her!

When we left it was snowing pretty hard.  Lydia touched the reindeer before we said goodbye...Karisa wanted nothing to do with that!
Then we headed over to Grandma's for dinner and playing with cousins!