Whenever we go somewhere for Christmas we like to do our own thing sometime the week before we leave. We had 'our' Christmas this past weekend & had a great one.
We started the weekend off on Thurs night at our ward Christmas party. Hyrum rocked the Primary performance! Good job Bud :) AND they all sat on Santa's lap (or close enough) without screeching, except Miss Emma did screech a bit before Daddy rescued her.
The making of cookies for Santa, Mrs. Claus & their 4 kids on Christmas Eve
The traditional reading of Luke 2, singing Christmas hymns, placing the Nativity set up while the story is being read, & watching a Christmas movie on Christmas Eve. This is Hyrum & Hunter's fake smiles. I'm sure you've seen them before.
Jeremy & I stayed up until 1:45 in the AM wrapping presents, stuffing stockings & making the traditional overnight cinnamon rolls. Without consulting us, Justin still woke up at his regular 5am hour. Tiiiiiired. But excited for Christmas morning!!!
Opening the stockings!!!!
As mean as it sounds we didn't get the babies anything for Christmas. But Darlin', Pa & Zac & Joy made up for that! If you can't tell, Emma really likes her bear & Justin isn't sure of the spiky balls.
Aunt Joy MADE these super cute outfits for the babies!!! I am impressed with her sewing skills! Check her out sometime
Wall-E
His one request for Christmas was the Sheriff & Santa didn't let him down.
I highly recommend getting your 4 11/12ths year old boy (if you have one) a remote controlled car for Christmas. He will love it, I promise you! And the car garage wasn't a bad idea either.
My Dad & Mum skyped with us all through the morning & it was SO COOL! It really felt like they were with us. My Mom made me this cool ladybug apron. They gave me a new temple dress that was much needed. It was very sweet.
Fast boys! My parents gave Hunter a 'Rusteze' shirt & it quickly tied with his '7 shirt' for his 'fravwrit'. I'm glad because now while I wash one he can wear the other, it was getting tricky with just the 7 shirt.
I did it, I did it! I finally finished knitting all of our stockings. This was a big accomplishment for me & it felt like it took forever & my right hand fingers still hurt but they're done & even though they're not uniform in size, I like them.
I like this picture of Jeremy. I love this guy. That night we had our first annual Shakespear caroling party! I was so excited. Growing up my family went caroling each Christmas with 2 other families in our ward & it was one of my favorite traditions. I've missed it the last few years so we decided to do our own. We had 4 other families join us caroling on our street. We had 10 adults & 14 kids! There was one 8 yr old, one 6 yr old & the rest were under 5! We came back to our house afterwards for lots of treats, chatting & running around screaming until 10pm. (the last part was what the kids did). Wish I had taken a picture of everyone.
Hunter has a really big head, don't you think? It looks as big as mine! It is as big as Hyrum's & he has somewhere between 1/2 to 1 size smaller shoe than Hyrum. He is a big boy.
Sunday night we drove through a park that has tons of light displays up. This was my favorite one.
Sunday night we officially became a 4-kid-facing-forward-in-the-car-family. It's a grand improvement.
!Feliz Navidad!
Now we're off to Texas for some more Christmas cheer!
3 comments:
What a fun blog! Glad we could join you for part of it! Glad the caroling went well. We ended our caroling at the Stucki's. Dad and I were the only "old folks" invited (only because Cramers are in Europe and the Sis. Stucki cannot get out). We were honored! Sis. Stucki has a great attitude, but it is really hard seeing her in failing health. Have a great trip!!
I love this post Megan! Its so fun to see all the fun things you have all been up to! You are such a beautiful family! It always makes me sooo happy to see you :)
And I'm uber impressed with your knitting skills. My mom bought me knitting materials for Christmas and I can't wait to get started! I think it will probably be decades before I can do anything close to how gorgeous your stockings are! Good job!!! Your family will love them! :)
LOVE LOVE LOVE the stockings Megan!!! GREAT JOB!!!! And I am with you on not buying the little ones presents. They just crawl around, stick candy in their mouths and play with the wrappings anyway! Last year I don't think we got Elden a single thing and this year he got a lizard (fake) and a ball. That is it. Well, and some candy in his stocking. Yay for forward facing car seats! WOO HOO! I am looking forward to reading about your trip to Texas!
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