Christmas

We had a fun Christmas with my family in Brigham City. On Christmas Eve, Jaren and I drove down to visit my dad in Gunnison. We missed the Nephi exit and had to drive clear down to Scipio and loop back around to get there. I was a little frustrated because we had made such good time (we left Brigham at 5:30 am and drove past the Nephi exit at 8:00 am), but we ended up enjoying our scenic drive through the middle of nowhere, Utah. We had a bag of Reese's and what else could you ask for? My dad was completely surprised to see us. He had not been expecting any visitors and looked so happy to get a Christmas surprise visit. It was so good to see him and to talk to him for a while. Definitely a good Christmas memory for us!


That night, after a long nap, we went around caroling to a bunch of my mom's neighbors and delivered neighbor gifts. My mom made this AMAZING cinnamon drop bread and I think I probably ate two whole loaves by myself over the weekend. We sang Angels We Have Heard on High about 15 times to the neighbors and then headed home for dinner, games and sibling gifts. The boys all stayed up till 4 or 5 in the morning playing board games. Not me!!

Christmas morning we woke up and gathered in my mom and moe's room for the traditional pre-Christmas family photo. Kiley commented that "this is possibly the saddest looking family pic i have ever seen." It is probably true.


We had a lot of fun taking turns to open gifts and we enjoyed the time with my family. As always, the living room was a disaster afterwards and we all ate a good breakfast and relaxed for the rest of the day. Merry Christmas. Thanks to everyone who made it a fun one!!