Merry Christmas!
Let us enjoy family and friends as we celebrate the birth of our Savior!
James and I read our scriptures and had family praery before he opened his gifts. These are the things he received from me: a new white Sunday shirt and yellow striped tie, two casual shirts, one long sleeved and one short, a pair of jeans, an electric razor, a camo beanie and a $50 gift card to Bass Pro, President Eyring's autobiography, and Elder Holland's book "In Times of Trouble."
After our little gift opening celebration we went down to Sheri's to start the family breakfast and to open gifts with family. Here is what Sheri's tree looked like last night:
Here are the gifts that I received: my Kitchen Aid mixer, Isotoner gloves and a family calendar, Cheesecake Factory and Outback gift cards, movie cup and tickets, Sheri Dew's book "Women and the Priesthood", sheep from Deseret Book, Trezise family pictures, and a Deseret Book gift card, "The Infinite Atonement", and "Constant Conversion" church books. From Lois a bag, embroidered pillows, a book of the History of America, Precious Moments and from Dawn a $50 gift card for a dinner and a movie.
The gifts that we gave: New sheets, and a night light and wax warmer for all our children and their spouses, for Adam a Harry Potter wand and Jack Skellington hat, Jared Ammon, Dallin, James, Joseph, Michael, Alex and Anna, hats and a $50 gift card. Ben the Sky Rim game and a Vikings hat, Max XBox Live and a Cardinals hat, Addy BoPeep Lalaloopsy and a purple hat with hearts on it, Rowan Star Wars Legos and a Minecraft hat, Ruby and Molly an Olaf singing snowman and hats, and Emmy Bea Spells-a-Lot Lalaloopsy.
We gave Lois a mother's bracelet and a wax warmer, and Dawn a Barnes and Noble gift card and a sheep.
Evan in his shark hat and Rowan in his
Minecraft hat.
Playing with the Barbie's great grandmother gave the girls.
No, wait a minute, Sheri is playing with her phone.
Evan's Mario race track.
Michael with his loot.
One of the funniest gifts this year was the calender
Kim made of Michael and Joe!
Enjoying gifts!
Ben trying out his new game chair.
After breakfast and opening gifts we went home and took a nap. I tried to index but Joshua asked me to help put together the Spiderman Lego set I got him. I did. Here is what it looked like:
We also played Joshua's new game Boom, Boom Balloon.
I lost
For dinner James and I went down to Sheri's while they were gone to Ian's parents. We had turkey, mashed potatoes, broccoli and cauliflower, and cranberry celebration. It was delicious. This is what Ian and his dad and brother got from his mom for Christmas.
Swat team "man" aprons.
Paul made dinner for all of his family. It was the classic "Dad" breakfast his dad use to make.
Refried beans, potatoes, bacon, eggs,
eaten with a flour tortilla and
a Pepsi.?
James worked hard today inspite of it being Christmas. He painted in the living room. I love the new color. He's not quite finsihed but it's going to look very nice. Also, I think I failed to mention that we got new carpet in the center area of the family room. It is so soft and clean and we really enjoyed it the night of our family party.
It was a nice Christmas but I am sorry to say that some got sick. Michael has a fever and so does Alex. I hope they get well soon so they can enjoy the rest of their holiday.
Facebook finds:
The Chestnut family from
our ward in Chandler.
The now live in St. George.
The littlest Hoose
The Hansen's from our ward
in Chandler who now live in Utah.
