I know i am a huge slacker, but i have this and Chirstmas left from 2010 then on to the million posts for the new year... will i ever catch up??
This year for Christmas we were lucky enough to have Brady's parents and his sister, Tami join us. Ellie was in heaven all weekend!!
His parents weren't able to make it down until Friday afternoon, due to the HUGE snowstorm all week in Utah County. So we were glad when they finally arrived.
Last year I decided our new tradition was going to be going out to dinner on Christmas Eve that way I could enjoy my family all night without cleaning up a huge mess and by the way i LOVED it, my new Christmas tradition for 2011 is going to be crockpoting Christmas Day dinner so I can stay in my PJ's all day. We decided to go to Samuarii 21, the kids had only been there once so they were both enthralled with the fire volcano and all the other tricks our Chef preformed, Cooper even enjoyed eating most of Grandma's salmon!!! He loved it and when anything else was offered to him he would point and grunt for the fish, it was hysterical, and Ellie didn't touch a morsel. Since they were so well behaved we stopped and threw pennies in the fountain outside.
When we got home Ellie had a quick snack and then we started our Christmas Eve festivities...
*we opened Christmas gifts from Grandma Flygare which included new Thomas & Dora PJ's and a new book that Grandma narrated. They both love the books and i hear them all the time. They are light sensitive so it was kinda funny when they didn't work at first, but once Grandma took it into the kitchen to look at it they magically worked. aahhh technology
*we watched How the Grinch Stole Christmas, a now yearly tradition
*played a game of Candyland with Grandma and Tami
*we got an important message from Santa for Ellie on the computer
*we got our milk and plate of cookies, candy, and carrots ready for Santa, Rudolph, and the other reindeer
*watched the same part of The Christmas Story about 5 times
and nestled into our beds for hopefully a long winters rest!!!
1 comments:
I love the tradition of going out to dinner and not having to clean up messes.
We had a tradition one year, where we stayed in a hotel on Christmas Eve Eve. We thought about doing it this year, but we had family in town.
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