More Christmas Break!

We had the opportunity to all (22 of us) open our Christmas Presents together Christmas morning. We emailed Santa ahead of time to let him know that we would be Santa Clara this year and that we would need him to drop off our presents at Grandma and Grandpa's house. Sarah and Miah and their family slept at our house and at about 6 am all of the kids woke us up and we hopped in the car and drove to see what Santa left us.

The kids waiting at the top of the stairs to come down. I think that this was the first time that we have ever had Christmas downstairs.

The kids all love having to stop and take a picture with all of their christmas presents :)

After we open all of our presents we then go to breakfast with all of my dads family. This year it was at my Uncle Doug and Aunt Helen's. It was a lot of fun, but of course I forgot to take any pictures. It is always good to see all of my cousins and their kids. We also got to go up to Pine Valley to see Mary Esther and Howard it was so cold outside but nice and warm inside. After our visit in Pine Valley we all went to the movie to see Yogi Bear. It was such a wonderful Christmas and one that had a lot of great memories!

Christmas Break 2010!!

We were lucky enough to be able to fly home for Christmas. Austin, McKenna, Alyssa and I left early on the 10th. We had an great flight we got to fly in the Airbus which everyone has their own TV to watch and play whatever they want. It was so fun and once we got in the air we had just figured out make the TVs work and they paused Alyssa's show to give instruction on how to get it work and we all (and those in the seats around us) got a good chuckle when she announced that "we already freakin know this." She is quite a character. Nate and Brock had to stay a little longer to finish up school and then joined us on the 16th. We had a wonderful time visiting with family and friends it feels like we were going to have a lot of time but still felt rushed right up to the end to fit it all in.

Anyway we had a wonderful Christmas! Everyone was there. Eric and Heidi came after us with their new baby Kinley. She is such a cute baby and she was so good to for all of the craziness! I even volunteered them to be in the Staheli Farms Nativity with my kids (boys were thrilled).

Sarah, Miah their family was next to arrive on the 23rd, and Darci, Dan and their boys were able to make out earlier than expected and arrived in time for Christmas Eve dinner and all of the festivities. (somehow my camera missed out on a picture of the big big kids table, but they were there and having fun too :)

After dinner we had our nativity with the kids acting out the parts. This year Brock was the Inn Keeper, Austin was Joseph (he was thrilled), and McKenna and Alyssa were Angels.

All the kids in their costumes

In their Christmas Eve Jammies