Christmas 2012

Our Christmas this year was great.  Well honestly I was sicker than a dog, well maybe not that sick, but I felt pretty darn horrible.  I got a really bad sore throat about 2 days before Christmas.  Christmas Eve was the worst day.  I felt like I was swallowing knives and my body ached like crazy.  But that is besides the point.

Christmas this year was spent with the Calls.  Our Christmas Eve dinner was wonderful!  We went to Tepenyaki and it was fabulous {as usual}.

Reese was terrified of the fire.  It was hilarious to watch her.  They lit the grill on fire and she put both hands on the side of her face and just shook.  Poor little girl, but she LOVED the food and she loved trying to use the chopsticks.

We gave Benson noodles and boy was he IN LOVE!  If he ran out of noodles he would sit and scream at me until I put more noodles in front of him.  He was in heaven!

After dinner we came back to the Calls and had our Christmas Eve devotional.  The kids put cookies and milk out for Santa and then Trey {our nephew} said we needed to put glitter out on the lawn for the reindeer.  Well we were fresh out of glitter so we put granola and glow sticks out on the lawn so Santa would be sure to find us.  Then we put the kids to bed and I followed right behind them.

Christmas morning came and Reese climbed into bed with me and Ben.  Someone made noise upstairs and Reese said, "maybe that is Santa and his reindeer".  She was so excited for Christmas and she was so sure Santa was going to bring her a bike.  Well unfortunately there was no bike under the tree, but Santa did leave a nice little letter for Reese.

The letter thanked Reese for being such a good girl and told her that Santa left some very special presents for her at her house in Texas because they were too big to bring home on the airplane.  Inside the letter Reese found two pictures.

That is right, Santa left her a bike and a kitchen set at our apartment in Texas.  We had to explain it quite a bit to her but I think she finally grasped that there is a bike and a kitchen set waiting for her in Texas, because she then asked us if we could go home to Texas!

We didn't have much for Reese and Benson to open because our Christmas was coming to Utah, but we had a gift for each of them to open.  Reese opened up some new pots and pans to go with her  kitchen set.

We got Benson some cars but he was more interested in Reese's pot and pans.  They have had so much fun playing with these pots and pans I can't wait until the can play with the kitchen set too.

The only other thing Reese asked for Christmas was a flower.  Don't ask me why she wanted a flower but she really wanted one, almost as bad as she wanted a bike.  So when she found a flower in her stocking she was quite excited!

I loved Christmas this year.  It is so much more fun with kids who understand what is going on.  Reese was so excited about everything and it made Christmas that much better.

These guys had so much fun playing together.  They are the best little buddies and cause quite a bit of trouble.  But it was so fun to watch them get excited about Christmas.

By the end of the day we were all exhausted.  Benson was so tired he decided he couldn't make it to the tub and so he decided to take a bath in the sink.  He loved it even though he was a little too big for the sink.

I am so grateful we got to spend Christmas with family this year.
  I have loved spending so much time with them.  
We hope you had a very merry Christmas!

We sure did!!!