We had a great Christmas this year. It was nice for me to have Christmas Eve off and Daniel's sister Erin and her family came out from Arkansas. Christmas is definitely more entertaining with children around. We might have been more excited to see them than they were for Christmas.
Thankfully Idaho didn't disappoint and we were blessed with fresh snow on Christmas Eve. My parents came over to Daniel's parent's house and we had a great Christmas meal together. The girls opened traditional Christmas Eve gifts of PJs and some super cute slippers. Then we made sugar cookies for Santa and they happily skipped off to bed.
Christmas Day started earlier than we've had in a while, but we still had a great morning. Lots of wonderful gifts were given and baby Sophie got even more goodies. She is all set with the best.
Daniel had a work party three days after he started his new job and we won a Smores maker. It really is just a cutesy little ceramic thing you put fire in and then you carefully burn your marshmellow. All our nieces got a kick out of it and loved blowing out the flaming mallows. Bella impressively downed two whole smores all by herself.
After we had our fill of games and excessive amounts of candy, Daniel and I went to spend some Christmas time with my parents. Our gift to them was tickets to the movie Les Miserables. My dad loves few things (Hugh Nibley or anything church-related) more than Les Mis. So I was excited to share this movie with him. We all had a great time.
The Sunday before Christmas we had "pre-Christmas" with my parents. It was the day scheduled for Spencer to skype home for Christmas so we opened presents and celebrated early. It was super fun to see him. He looks great! And skinny. I am so grateful for the technology that we not only get to talk to him, but also get to see him! His English is getting worse--it's pretty cute.
We had a holly jolly Christmas indeed! We are especially looking forward to sharing next Christmas with our little girl.
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