Wow! What a holiday!
It all started weeks before Christmas. First was Quinntin's family, we had a great turkey dinner at Quinntin's sister's house. We ate and talked and the kids ran around without a care. They had fund giving each other presents and then running off to play with them.
We also got a great family picture with only two tries.
Because Quinntin works retail we had to work around the shopping holiday. The weekend before Christmas we were able to spend four days in Salt Lake with my parents and a had lots of fun. We dipped all sorts items in chocolate from caramel to pretzels, from almonds, to cashews, and pecans. They tasted as wonderful as they looked.
(especially the pecan/caramel turtles! MMMmmm)
On Saturday we went to my extended families Breakfast With Santa Clause. Can I say he was the best Santa I have ever seen, authentic from his goulashes to his beard. He even read a story "Twas the Night Before Christmas" where the pictures had been drawn using him as the model.
The kids swapped presents and even helped each other open them Thanks Cayde and Kaetlyn.
Parker got to catch up with his 2nd Cousin Cambrie.
Kora and Cambrie posed for the matching outfit picture.
It was a fun morning, thanks Aunt Leesa, as always, it was wonderful!
Later that evening we exchanged presents with the grand kids in my family. They loved being able to give each other presents and had a blast.
Our Own Christmas was a lot of fun Parker kept asking " When Santa come?" and When he finally did the kids scored! Aside from the clothes and socks, Parker got a cool drill and airplane set from Grandpa and Grandma Reynolds and Kora got a cute red soft teddy bear. The kids also got Connect Four from Grandma and Grandpa Gray (They love "checkers")
Quinntin got a Guitar for his PS2 and my kids made me this cute duck! It was so cute.
Continuing on through the month for New Year's Eve Nana and Papa got to come and stay with us! The kids loved waking up and finding Nana a Papa in the mornings!
We opened more wonderful presents, made laying down snowmen and just hung out. The kids are still talking about what Nana and Papa left them.
In short we are truly blessed to have such an amazing family!
