the rest of Christmas

We actually got to spend time with Kathie and Paul this trip, it was just like old times ;o) We miss you guys!!!

We even got to snuggle up in front of a real fire and watch the Polar Express, so much fun!

On Christmas Eve we all made goodies and met up at Heidi's house, cookies, pies, meatballs, crackers and cheese, stuffed jalapenos... you name it we ate it! It was soo yummy, who needs dinner? Then we all opened our presents from each other and the pjs from the grandparents and started the Christmas Eve program,

Jacob was Joseph and Kailey was an angel, Mom and Dad read the Christmas story from the scriptures and we sang carols at the right times, it was so amazing... well the kids got bored and got a little out of control but I love singing with my family and The Spirit was definitely there,

After the story my mom gave us all our presents from her, she gave each of us a nativity and a letter to us containing her testimony, she told us not to read it then but how often to people really listen to their moms? Ha, needless to say there was not a dry eye in the house, it was very special.

We got to stay with mom for Christmas this year which was sooo exciting, here we all are in our matching jammies from Grandma Nancy, Thanks Grandma!!!

On Christmas day we had dinner at John's house which was a blast, after dinner we gave mom the present from us kids, we made her a CD with most of the ten of us singing songs that we thought would be inspirational for her. In this picture she's listening to David sing Annie's Song by John Denver, he did such a good job and most of us were crying (he bolted out of the room the minute he realized it was his song so we had to drag him back so he could comfort his poor mom)

It was a great Christmas, I am so glad that we were able to go down this year!