After Santa left, we woke up Eden and Levi. Eden was a disaster and threw a holy fit. She is even less of a morning person than her mom! We decided to put her back to bed and let her open her presents later. Levi was good as long as he had something to eat!
Jonah got the hang of opening presents down pat.
He even emptied his own stocking. He was so excited about the orange at the bottom.
Landon got me some Vans for our gift exchange. Yeah! (And here is proof that I'm not afraid to put ugly pictures of myself on my blog. Yikes, that hair!)
My mom outdid herself with homemade gifts. She made Landon a rag quilt...
And a few of my sisters and I got wall hangings that she made. I love it! (Another scary picture!)
My mom also made each of us girls double-sided aprons and matching potholders. I had to steal this picture from one of my sister's blogs.The Christmas side
The regular side
Tibi got another cute apron from Kira.
We all had a really great Christmas. I think the highlight for my siblings and I was two CDs of my mom singing in 1978. That was 30 years ago! My dad had remastered a tape that my mom gave him of her singing when they first met. It was really interesting to hear my mom's voice at 20. That was probably the most special gift this year.A few days after Christmas, a few of us headed to St. George to pick up a few things and to eat at The Pizza Factory. We had a blast and the food was great, as usual. I even saw a few old buddies from my days as a waitress there. These two pigs barely shared that Never-On-Sundae.
The kids "helped" Grandpa and Landon with some yard work while we were there.
And they even got to take a bath all together.
We spent some time singing this year too. Michaela got the Wicked piano book, so we sang through that a few times. Then we broke out the usual stuff. It was great singing around the piano like we used to.
7 comments:
Great pictures! Some of those things I didn't even get pictures of...like singing around the piano. Glad you guys had fun and I hope you are happy to be home.
You got way better pictures than me and layed it all out the best on your blog...something I need to get better at. I'm always too busy with the kids or having too much fun to think of taking a picture. I do usually get the most footage though.
yeah, we did eat most of that never on sunday! ha. sorry :)
Looks like you guys had lots of fun! And I love the things your mom made! Way too cute.
yeah that was cheap! Tibi and Michaela ate so much of the sundae. I got like one bite, and all the good stuff was gone. It was just goop by then...oh well.
The wheelbarrow and bath pictures are adorable. And I love all the homemade gifts from your mom. That's the way to do it. How cool!
I only got one bite I think- and sorry I'm crackin everyone on that last picture,
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