Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Christmas Eve Eve and Eve

This year for Christmas we went down to my parents and ended up staying for the whole break! We weren't planning on staying so many days but we were just having to much fun being spoiled.  The first night we got down, we went to a cemetery in Ogden who puts out luminaries. There were so many, it just went on and on.  I couldn't get a good picture but it was pretty neat-o.    
The kids loved it because they stuck their heads out the window the whole time (even though it was freezing) yelling at "us" in the car behind.  After seeing the luminaries, we went and drove around south weber looking at christmas lights.  We saw a couple of houses with the lights that went with the music and I think it sparked some ideas in Mitch.  Maybe in 5-10 years we will have musical lights!


On Christmas Eve, we went over to visit with my grandma for a bit and then on the way back we stopped at the Layton lights.  I knew Addy would love them.  On the way I asked what she wanted to see and she said, "an angel by a christmas tree" and I said and angel and a christmas tree and she corrected me and said "by a christmas tree".  Luckily they had an angel with a christmas tree so it was a happy day.  




Back at the house, we had some hot chocolate with pink marshmallows and whip cream. This was heaven for Addy.  Then Addy opened up her Christmas jammies.
And totally loved them because they had princesses all over them! I think she has worn them every night since.
Then grandpa read the Christmas story and Addy used the nativity pieces to show us what happened in the story.  For the next hour she played with that nativity while we read a couple other stories.  She would line then all up with the baby Jesus in the front and then she would put the baby Jesus in the middle and gather everyone around as tight as possible.  It was really cute to watch.  

After stories were read, we put out our stockings for Santa, along with our cookies and carrots for Santa and his reindeer.  Then it was off to bed for the little ones.

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