Christmas 2014

Ben and his Dad drove into Utah on the 23rd of December.  We could officially begin our Christmas vacation.  I had been looking forward to having Christmas with family ever since we found out that Ben got the job in Twin Falls.

It was fun to do our own little Christmas last year but I enjoy being surrounded by family at this time of year.  We spent Christmas with Ben's family this year and it was CRAZY! 

There are now 10 grandkids and four of them are babies so it  made for a VERY loud house but it sure was fun to be surrounded by our family again!

Christmas Eve we went to Tepenyaki.  Ben was ecstatic!  That is his favorite place to eat and if that was his only gift for Christmas he would be okay with that.

This year Jan made a reservation for our whole family and we got our very own room away from all of the crowds!  It was great!  The food was incredible as usual and it was great to be away from all of the people.

 Oh and by the way our kids are crazy for not liking/eating any of their food!  They have no idea what they are missing out on!

After we stuffed ourselves we went back to Brad and Jan's house for our Christmas devotional and the kids opened up a present before bed.  They were so excited to finally get to open a present!  Reese and Benson had been asking all week long when they would get to open a present!

We got all the kids dressed in their new jammies and snapped a couple of pictures.  Then Kajsa, who is the sweetest little girl ever and she is also our niece, wanted to have her picture taken with Reese.

These two had WAY too much fun together!  Reese has missed have a close girl friend that she could play with and do girl thing with.  Her and Kajsa hit it right off and they were two peas in a pod for the rest of our time at the Calls.

Then it was time for bed.  Reese couldn't wait for Santa Clause to come and Benson kept telling me that he liked presents but he didn't like Santa.  Needless to say they both couldn't wait for Christmas to come!

We were up by 7 a.m. the next morning.  We tried to get breakfast going but there was no containing 10 very excited kids so we went and opened presents.  They got to open their stockings first and found some very exciting treasures inside!

 And then it was time for presents!  It is what my children had been anxiously looking forward to all week long.  Reese went and grabbed a present that had her name on it that she had been eying all week long.  She would ask me every single day when she was going to get to open that present, so naturally that was the first one that she opened.  And what was inside did not dissappoint!

We did a very small Christmas for our kids because moving is kind of expensive but when they opened our presents and they got so darn excited... well lets just say I loved seeing their excited faces when they got something they had been asking for for a really long time.

The kids loved Christmas and they spent the next few hours playing with all of their new toys and showing their cousins what they got!  We had a great Christmas! 

What was the highlight of Tanner's Christmas?  This little purple feather duster that came with Reese's cat!

Oh and all of the grand-kids got new snow gear!  Thankfully it snowed on Christmas Eve so there was plenty of snow to go outside and test their new snow gear out in.  Reese had been DYING to go outside and build a snowman so as soon as breakfast was over she had her snow gear on and she was ready to go outside!

 She was outside playing with her cousins for like 2 hours!!!  She had fun to say the least!

And I got the BEST Christmas surprise EVER!!!  Brad and Jan gave me a new phone!!!  Not just any phone but the Iphone 6!!!  I was ecstatic!  My phone has been having a rough time and so has my camera so to get both in one present... BEST present ever!  We had a great day and we were so happy to be surrounded by family!

We were exhausted by the end of the day... 

some of us more so than others!