Merry Christmas Everyone!

Here is our first picture ever with all our kids happily sitting on Santa's lap, no one is crying!

This year for Christmas, we tried something different. We went up to Camp Ensign and stayed in a cabin with my family for a few days. We thought it would be a fun way to ensure we all had a white Christmas, turns out we could have had a white Christmas pretty much anywhere in Washington this year.

Here are my kids with their cousins.

There were all sorts of fun activities that I never had my camera around for. We played out in the snow, went sledding, and sang Christmas carols on a hayride.

The cousins had to leave on Christmas Eve, so we had our gift exchange with them before they left. My kids made ornaments for each of their cousins.

Dad got a nerf gun which created pure chaos.

Just look at Jared taking out all his frustrations on those poor innocent kids.

....of course, they were all pretty willing.

We had a yummy ham dinner on Christmas Eve and then enjoyed a nice program. There was a pretty intense white elephant exchange and then we finished off the evening with some dancing.

Everyone got to decorate a Christmas stocking for Santa to fill, my kids were sleeping when this activity took place so Uncle Anthony (my youngest brother) was kind enough to decorate stockings for all of us. Most everyone was thrilled with theirs......

...all but Jared that is. Gotta love all that lace and pink! :)

Everyone got to open one gift before we packed up and went home to see what Santa had left at our house!

We hit a snow storm on the way home and had to put our chains on to get over the pass, but we made it and the kids were excited to dig into the rest of their Christmas.

Emma got some makeup which she quickly tested out, doesn't she look beautiful?

Hunter got a nerf gun of his own so now he can defend himself properly. If you come over, watch out. He keeps it loaded and aimed at the front door. :)

We feel very blessed and are grateful to have such wonderful families to share the holidays with. I hope all of you had a Merry Christmas!