Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Christmas came! Along with the snow...

The build up to Christmas was full of some fun traditions!

Here is our annual gingerbread house making in progress

Another tradition is to eat all the candy that doesn't make it on the gingerbread house...









...until we feel sick, of course.

























That night, M and O were simply too tired to make it to bed. Here they fell asleep in the middle of playing.


Our Family Day!
We pick one day before Christmas that we call our Family Day. We go out in the morning and spend all day doing fun stuff together.
This year, we went to breakfast at Denny's, where we drew names for presents to be purchased at some time throughout the day. Then we drove to St. George, where we went bowling. ...And, not to brag, ...but I really kicked some booty.























After that, we shopped at the outlet stores for our Christmas presents. But O, was really informative and told me straight away what they had bought for me.

We then went to the movies to see Tale of Desperaux and ate dinner at Olive Garden. That's when the snow really started to come down, so we thought it best to start heading back to CC. It was a good thing as I lost control of the car only going 25 mph and almost slid right into two parked troopers. We eventually made it safely back after stretching our ride home for an hour an half.

Christmas Eve
We had a full house. We invited two families over for dinner. Of course Santa was able to drop off some PJ's for the kids as he made is way around other parts of the world.

Christmas Day!


Another fun tradition!
Tearing down the fully edible gingerbread house...


The kids have had so much fun playing in the snow, and we have even discovered some great sledding hills.

Here the kids are playing right outside our house.
We had a great Christmas!

And now, to close this post, I end with some of our best talent!
Enjoy


This was filmed by the kids, so sorry for the bumps!

3 comments:

The Bronson Bunch said...

I love the video of Olivia singing! She is just like Karlee, a Superstar! Too cute! It looks like you had a good holiday!

R Clan said...

This was so cute. Looks like you had a great Christmas with lots of snow too. We had a wonderful blizzard. It was crazy.

Maren said...

So cute! It looks like so much fun at your house. I can't O fell asleep in the chair! Amazing! I love your Family Day! great tradition.