Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas Everyone! We hope that you all had a wonderful holiday. We are healthy and happy and had a great time spending Christmas with our family. On Christmas Eve we went to Grandpa and Grandma's for dinner (pizza, yeah grandma for doing an easy one), and our traditional nativity. We don't have the attention span for reading the scriptures so we just dress all of the kids up and sing the nativity song from the primary book. This year Mark, Melissa and Wesley Roberts were visiting from Texas and staying at Grandma's for a couple of weeks. The girls (Reah, Lara and Mel)were home for the night too and with our family and Trent, Jenny, and kids it was a houseful. Then we came home and got ready for Santa's visit. The girls almost spent the entire night in their beds but not quite. When we woke up this morning at 8:30 (yeah girls!) we were pleased to find that Santa had made it. The girls got a haul of baby dolls, clothes, dress ups, a table & chairs, food and dishes for their kitchen, art supplies and backpacks. Daddy got new scriptures with type big enough to read and a new briefcase to take all of his stuff to church in and mom got a new Kodak printer. Then we went back to Grandma's house for breakfast and to see what all of the cousins got. Wes got a Wii and I had fun trying it out for him. . . That is so on my list for santa next year, right after the new camera I want that costs about a thousand dollars. I guess I'll have to be really good or win the lottery next year. The girls got new dresses and coats that Grandma made them and I can't wait to dress them up. They are awesome. I'll post pictures after church on Sunday. I am thinking of having professional pics taken just because they are so cute. Then we went to St. George to visit with the Lindberg clan. We met at Shannon and Ferris' and opened even more presents. Our girls are spoiled! Grandma Lindberg had way too much fun shopping for little girls clothes at Osh Kosh. They loved all of their new things and Aunt Shannon gave them new baby dolls which they loved. Mike and Kristin came too and it was fun to visit with them for the afternoon. There was snow on the ground so we went to play in it. They both loved it and Anya had to do this funny little grunt everytime she threw a snowball or got hit by a snowball. There is a lot of snow on the mountains around us and I am hoping to talk everyone into a visit to Utah Hill tomorrow to play. We came home and crashed in front of the TV to watch "Kung Fu Panda" with daddy because he didn't get to see it in the theater with us. We loved it as much this time as we did when we first saw it. And already the day is over and both girls are in their own bed, hopefully for the night. We have stayed up way too late again but hey, no work tomorrow! Thank you to all of our family and friends! You wonderful people that we are surrounded by that made this one of the best Christmas' ever. I can't believe it is over already and hope that I can keep the spirit of Christmas alive in our home for the entire year. Love you!