Christmas

On Christmas Eve, we got on our PJs and headed out to look at Christmas lights. We went to a few in Glendale and even got out and walked around. The weirdest was one where people were allowed to go inside this person's house and see all the decorations. Our girls wanted to go in, so we obliged. It was really weird to put it mildly. There were decorations in EVERY SINGLE square inch of the house. And not cute ones either--like a hodge podge of random decorations. It was kind of creepy! Libby fell asleep on the way home and everyone else went to bed when we got home.

Everyone was up and ready (some got woken up) at 7, so we went in to see what Santa brought. We first checked out our stockings, then saw that Santa brought our family an XBox and Kinect--our first gaming system. They've been having fun with that. Some other highlights--Hattie got a scooter and an Olivia house, Libby has liked the glasses with no prescription and her converse, Eliza loves her Ugg-type boots, purse and converse, Ruby's played with her new toys and Ellie's had fun with her converse and iPod. Santa brought her a new iPod Nano, but we realized it didn't have speakers or the watching video capabilities, so we returned it and found and older version on Craigslist. Brian was excited to get new scriptures and I was ecstatic to get a new Bosch and wheat grinder as part of my Christmas. It will get a lot of use!






After opening gifts, we had breakfast. The girls wanted donuts, so we had gotten donuts the day before. Brian's parents came over and brought their gifts. Then my parents came over for a bite to eat and more gifts. It was like Christmas all over again with our visitors. The girls kept saying, "We are so spoiled!" At least they realized it! We hung out at home for a while, they went over to Brian's parents for dinner and cousin gift exchange.

Christmas is always so fun to anticipate but over so quickly!