Merry Christmas

We had such a wonderful Christmas together as a family.  Christmas time just keeps getting better and better as the kids get older.  Every night Brooklyn would ask us how many more nights before Santa would come.  On Christmas Eve we spent a lot of time with my family and it was fun to do some of the traditions that I did as a kid.  It snowed a bunch the night before and so that morning Craig and Brooklyn headed out to the backyard to trudge through the snow.  We then went to Chinese food for lunch and then Brooklyn and I went to a movie with the rest of my family while Craig took McKay home to take a nap.  We saw the movie Moana, super cute.  It was Brooklyn's first movie at the theater and she loved it.  There will definitely be more movies in our future.  After the movie we went over to my parents house and ate a bunch of treats and other yummy food and then read the nativity story and a few other Christmas stories before we headed home to watch The Grinch.  After we got the kids to bed Santa came and filled up there stockings and ate Brooklyn's cookies.

Since Christmas was on Sunday this year we had church at 9:00 so we woke Brooklyn up in time to be able to see her gifts from Santa before we headed off to church.  After a wonderful church service full of beautiful music and testimony we came home and finished opening presents and Factimed with Craig's parents so they could see the kids opening their gifts.  I then went to my parents church because my Dad was giving a talk and Craig stayed home with the kids and then we went over to my parents house because my brother Tucker was calling from his mission in Arizona.  It was so good to talk with him and just hear his voice, he is such an awesome missionary and we are all so proud of him.  We then headed home to cook up our yummy Christmas dinner of ham, funeral potatoes, green bean casserole, and rolls.  It was quite delicious if I do say so myself.  We had such an enjoyable Christmas together.  I really hope that we are teaching our kids the true meaning of CHRISTmas and continue to remind them that it is a time to serve and remember the ultimate gift that our Savior Jesus Christ gave us of the atonement and eternal life.

Her sweet nursery leader gave her this apron embroidered with her name

She was so proud of the necklace that she made with her new bead set