Christmas 2012

 Christmas Eve

 

On Christmas Eve, Lisa & Steve came over with their kids Diana, Clayton, & Ethan to spend the evening.  We enjoyed a yummy dinner, then had the traditional program with music and the reading and acting out of the nativity, followed by dessert.

 

 

I was excited to try out the nativity costumes I made at our Relief Society Thrifty Thursday (our equivalent of Super Saturday).  They were great!

 

Mary (Rachel) riding on the Matthew donkey 

 

Check out this awesome manger Brent made for our ward Christmas dinner.  He used 2x4's and made it strong and large enough to fit a 70 lb. baby!

Elizabeth bringing tidings of joy

Rachel & Ethan

 

The peace of Christmas morning...right before the kids come in the room!

 

Elizabeth got an Our Generation doll and a sticker-making machine.  Joshua got an RC monster truck and a John Deere tractor and trailer.

 

Emma's big present was two guinea pigs.  She had been begging for them for months, but was still so shocked to see them on Christmas morning!

 

Matthew's main present was not the bike helmet and Swedish fish...it just came later.

 

Rachel was so cute when we asked her what she wanted for Christmas: a light-up ball, a nutcracker, and a gumball machine.  Santa also got her a new scooter.

 

The tree

 

 

Emma, thrilled to meet her new guinea pigs, who are a mother and daughter.  She named them Stacy and Gumdrop.

 

Feeding Stacy a carrot

 

 

 

 

 

Matthew and Elizabeth's BIG present (really, the whole family's) was two halves of a picture announcing a new trampoline in the spring!  Matthew, especially, has been asking for one forever.

 

Brent with his new folding work table

(so he can make lots more mangers and honey-do projects, right?)

The aftermath 

 

Rachel trying out her new scooter

 

 

Christmas day was so wonderful.  We spent the entire day with just our family.  Since we had the Wilson Family Christmas breakfast on Christmas Eve, we didn't have any commitments, company, or places to go.  We enjoyed opening presents, had Christmas pancakes for a late breakfast, and spent the afternoon sledding at the bowl by the fire station since the weather was perfect for it.  We had a really nice candlelight dinner on china.  It was the perfect day.

 

By the way, since I was the one behind the camera, you don't get to see me, but I did get a new waffle iron, skillets, and slippers for Christmas. :0)