Christmas!

Merry Christmas! A little late...

We had a wonderful Christmas!

My family came down for the week of Christmas,

my sweet in-laws came down for Christmas Eve and Christmas.

This week, we ate and ate and ate some more!

It was delicious!

This is our Christmas Eve Feast!

 We had a wonderful Christmas Eve, we played a white elephant present game, 

we had a singing Nativity thing.

We read scriptures about the Savior's life and sang Christmas songs that went along with those scriptures.

It was neat.

Then we talked about some of our favorite Christmas memories and Christmas traditions.

After a while we were all tuckered out and went to bed so Santa could come.

And he came!

 Our traditional beautiful Christmas morning by the Christmas tree picture,

in our matching pjs, of course! My mom, my sister, and I made them Christmas Eve.

We're pro.

 Apparently, this next picture is the only picture I took of people opening gifts. 

I guess I got too into it to remember to take pictures.. lol!

My little brother got exactly what he wanted... a bread maker!

I also got one and so did my sister.

It's awesome, we made some bread the next day, it was delicious! And SO easy!

I also got TWO panini makers... a life lesson as my sweet husband says,

my life lesson is... don't tell everyone the same thing whenever they ask you what you want for Christmas.

LOL! Apparently, I almost got three, but my mother-in-law decided against getting it.

We are going to return the one my sweet husband gave me and get something else.

My youngest brother got me the other one. And it works like a champ. We've had several paninis since Christmas and they have been delicious!

I got my sweet husband a backpacking fishing pole and my parents got him a smoker.

We also tried that out and the smoked meat was SO yummy!

My sweet in-laws gave us another section of our pretty willow tree nativity.

We got a few more things, but I won't list them all lest I forget something.
We were so spoiled!

 After we opened all our gifts we had a big, yummy breakfast.

 Then the moms got their favorite gifts!

We got to talk to our missionaries!

First we talked to my sister, she's doing so well!

 Then shortly thereafter we got to my sweet husband's baby brother,

 he is also doing super well!

 They both come home fairly soon, it's so crazy! 

He has about 5 months and my sister has about 6 months!

The day after Christmas, some of the family worked out.

My sister and I cleaned up the kitchen instead.. lol!

Then we ran some errands and smoked some meat and ate it for dinner.
This was our back seat driving back from our errands, comfy eh? lol!

My in-laws went home Christmas Day and my family left Friday morning.

It was sad to see them all go, it was so fun to have them all here!

We love family!
And most of all, we love our Savior,
and love that we have this time of year to help us remember Him
and that we get to celebrate His birth
and all that He did for us!