We Had a Merry Christmas

We had a great Christmas. There was lots of snow for sledding and shoveling. There we tons of presents under the tree. The best part was having David and Tara and the girls, DaNae and Ben and Ella, and Dori and Brent, Gavin and Grace staying with us.

We got a family Wii which was a hit and played lots of other games. We swam at the indoor water park, went to movies, jump and bounce and the kids museum. I have bruises and ball marks from playing racquetball with David, but we had great fun. It was really sad to see David and his family leave for SLC yesterday.

Here are some pictures of Christmas Eve dinner,the tree and baby grace, and the kids waiting on the stairs to open presents. I'll try to put in a video clip of sledding.

Slumber Party at Grandma's House

Saturday night Dorianne and Brent went out to dinner with friends, so we asked Gavin over for a Polar Express slumber party. Gavin and I started by making a snap together ginger bread house. It was cool and easy to do. Gavin liked gluing on the little pieces best. Then we watched the polar express movie on our new 52" LCD TV. We had popcorn and snacks and lots of fun. Gavin's little bed is now down in the basement and he wouldn't sleep down there, so guess he was in bed with us. He woke us up in the middle of the night and it took us awhile to get him back to sleep. This morning we went in the hot tub, had pancakes for breakfast and then went to church together. He really likes to hang with the old folks. I only with some of the other grandchildren were around so they could hang with us too. Gettin' ready for Christmas.

Snow has Melted

We had some big snow storms last week and Saturday and Sunday, but the weather warmed up and the Chinook winds have melted it all. Today it was in the 50's. They say more snow is coming. I just hope it is not more rain.

We're getting ready for Christmas. Debbie is getting all the packages ready. She is getting the last of them in the mail tomorrow.

Last night for family home evening we went to the stake center on 29th to the Christmas Creche exhibit. Every year the get more displays and more beautiful nativity sets. This year they had a children's room and Gavin had fun coloring a nativity set, doing a cutout and attaching clothes pins to them. It was cute. Then we all had our picture taken. It was a good evening, but Gavin left his picture in the restaurant where we ate dinner later and wanted to go back to get it. Luckily Brent took pictures and can print another one off.

Looking forward to the holidays. I'll take some pictures of our tree and the Christmas lights.