We had a great Christmas in St. George at Grandma and Grandpa's house this year! Everyone was there but Ryan, who is serving a mission for the LDS church in the Cayman Islands. We got to talk to him on Christmas day, so that made the day even more special!
The boys and I went up a few days before Christmas so we could hang out with the family and enjoy doing fun things like
reading Christmas stories with Grandpaand
making Christmas cookies with Grandma!
Christmas Eve we had a delicious ham and turkey dinner, then we did our traditional Nativity story reenactment.
Zac as Joseph
Kayden was a shepherd
Joseph, Mary, and the babe
After the program, Zac and Kayden opened their new jammies and hesitantly got ready for bed...everyone was so excited for Christmas morning to come!
Before they went to bed, they sprinkled reindeer food all over the grass to attract the reindeer to the house that night and IT WORKED!!!Christmas morning we woke up to filled stockings and a house full of presents!
~The best part...the kids didn't even wake up until 8:00!~
As is tradition, first we piled on Grandma and Grandpa's bed to open stockings before going downstairs for cinnamon rolls and opening gifts under the tree.
Presents were piled high and filled the room! Zac was so excited to open his and then he wanted to help everyone else open theirs. :)
Trying out a few of their new toys
Christmas afternoon/evening we went to Great Grandma's house for lots of yummy food and visiting with more family.
To end Christmas Day, we went to the St. George Temple
to look at the lights and watch the Nativity presentation.
We had a wonderful Christmas and loved spending it with family!
But, the fun didn't stop on Christmas...we had several more days of fun...
~playing and sliding at Jumping Jacks (didn't bring the camera :( ),
~watching new movies with Grandma
~Bonfire and s'mores
~and lots and lots of playing, eating, visiting, and games!
A few other Christmas activities we did this season that were never posted:
~Bellagio Conservatory and watershow
~Christmas painting projects
~Carriage ride and Christmas decorations at The District
~The largest live Christmas tree at The M
~The largest live Christmas tree at The M
9 comments:
looks like you had a fabulous cmas! the carriage ride looks like fun too!
So fun- I love the Mary and Joseph picture
Looks like so much fun! It was so great to see you the other night! We miss you guys so much!
For some reason Kayden looks so old in these pictures! Looks like you guys had a blast!!
wow! your kids actually participated in the nativity! they look so cute in those costumes, too!
We got the same jammies for David this year from Children's Place and I got the red and blue ones for the twins to wear next year ;)
What a fun Christmas! It was nice to see you guys!
your family is so darling, eleisha! it's fun to see all of the fun things you did this christmas season...we did a lot of the same things, but i also got some new ideas! i'm so happy i get to see you a guaranteed 2 days a week now because of preschool!
Looks like you had fun. It was fun seeing you on my birthday. We did the Bellagio too. I've never been there during Christmas. It was really cool.
those costumes for the nativity are so cute! we usually use blankets and towels...
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