Our Christmas Adventures!

This Christmas was quite different to last years...no weddings, no international flying and sadly not everyone was together, but we did get the best present of all as a whole family...little Eloise Joy!

We spent this Christmas with Kathy and Randy up at Tiffany and Rob's house, but of on the way we stayed the night in Rexburg, got to meet the gorgeous Ellie and spent time with our Lula girl!



After an 8 hour trip from Rexburg, we arrived to some yummy enchiladas made by Tiff and watched Despicable Me with with kids.

The next day consisted of some last minute shopping, the Pizza Factory and at night we went to the resort and went on the Santa Cruise! We hopped on a boat and sailed through lots of Christmas lights! Eventually we arrived at the North Pole, where Santa, his wife and some Elves were there to talk to us! Then Santa read off the names of all the good children. When he got to Lance he yelled out in excitement then Santa said "You seem surprised!" it was rather funny!

Even Brett and I were on the list! We must have been good this year!



Syd was trying to make her evil face, but kept laughing before I could get a good picture! She's so funny!


Christmas Eve we had a wonderful Christmas meal prepared by Randy (sadly I didn't get a picture!). Brett and Rob spent the day snowboarding so we went with the kids to see Narnia.
The kids also frosted sugar cookies for Santa.


Their cute cookies and letters for Santa and don't forget the carrots for the Reindeer!!

Before bed we had the traditional family nativity. This year we were lacking in children, so they all had multiple roles. Last year with so many kids we had wandering sheep and a real live baby...it was a lot more contained this year!


Lance was Joseph and the Wisemen and the Shepherds! Syd was the Angel and the sheep as you can see below!



As part of the Christmas program, Syd sang us a song...and Abby read us a poem.


The kids then opened a present each and got new PJs! Here they are all ready for bed!



Christmas morning we were all happy to see Santa had some! We even had some crackers to pull! We got some pretty neat prizes and some silly jokes that we shared with Jacob and Jonah over Skype!


Everyone had to wear their crowns! We all got lots of lovely presents and had yummy homemade Cinnamon rolls made by Randy for breakfast!

Later in the afternoon we went out to see if we could spot some of the Eagles flying around, but we didn't have much luck! It was a pretty view though!



Whilst Eagle spotting Kathy realized she had two different shoes on! She was teased for quite some time after that!


Then we headed to the Resort for our yummy Christmas dinner! They had Prime Rib to die for!! At one point Kathy was in front of me for Prime Rib they gave her a tiny little piece, they then looked at me and my huge belly and gave me a BIG piece! Even Randy was surprised at how much I ate!!

The dessert table was like being in Heaven! I only got pictures of 2 sides of the table! I think between us we tried everything they had!


Great view from our table!


Smiley Kathy and Abby, not so sure what Randy and Syd were thinking!

Stuffed but oh so worth it!!

Monday we went out to the sales...Brett kept Syd entertained!

We were blessed to have a lot of fun this Christmas, we missed those who weren't with us but they were in our thoughts as we celebrated the birth of our Lord and Savior!