What we love about Christmas

FYI...Unless you want to know about our whole December don't read this post. I only wrote it for fun documentation purposes.

Christmas came and went in a flash. It is hard to believe that it is already the new year and I haven't updated this blog for over a month. Between Mia's birthday, shopping and getting ready for Christmas and all the fun parties we have kept quite busy. We always have fun in December and try to take advantage of all the fun.
Getting the mail everyday and opening up all of your fun Christmas cards was a highlight everyday. I love to see all the different and creative styles that everyone comes up with. Our favorite card this year was the Nielsons!! It wouldn't be Christmas if we didn't make the annual trip to see Santa. Too bad Cottonwood Mall was closed this year so we had to go wait in line at Fashion. Of course Jada cried, but Mia just ate up. When we were leaving the mall Mia asked "Where do you think Santa parked his sleigh?" Our annual trip to the Christmas tree lot turned out successful. When we got our tree home it actually fit perfectly this year. Last year (and the year before) when we got our tree home it was about 2 feet too tall and 4 feet too big around. Despite many malfunctiong Christmas lights, we had fun decorating it too. It was fun to see Mia really start to understand the true meaning of Christmas. After watching her cartoon nativity movie she came upstairs with scarf on her head and one of her dolls and said "Look at my baby, his name is Jesus." Then she instructed me saying "Mom now you're supposed to say 'I know this child.'" She loved being a wiseman in primary and really enjoyed giving a gift to Baby Jesus. Jada's favorite thing of course was to destroy any decoration she could get her hands on. Although our tree started out pretty balenced it ended up naked until about waste up. We had some fun Christmas parties this year that were all fun, thanks to all our great family and friends. Thanks to all our fun friends, family, neighbors and work that hosted and entertained us this year--Bingo, Bowling, White Elephants, Chip and Dale, The Diamond Way, Sub for Santa, Crazy Magician, Silent Football, and Z$--Memories we will never forget!
Christmas Day this year was the best yet. Early that morning (around 2 am) I was sitting on the couch aranging some presents when i heard some faint sleigh bells--no joke! I thought I was losing my mind when I thought the Christmas lights were making that noise until I looked out the window and saw a man running down the middle of the street in a Santa hat shaking the bells. I could not believe my eyes, not to mention that it was dumping snow. Mia loved everything about the whole day. She could not believe it in the morning that Rudolph actually ate half of the carrot that she left him and that Santa ate all of the cookies. Santa listend when Mia told him, and everyone else that asked, that she wanted Dora Mermaid for Christmas. She was so excited to open up the last present to find her. We are already on the second doll that has broken, but oh well. Jada was sick on Christmas Eve and kept us up half of the night, but when she saw her car when she woke up she didn't care about anything else. She didn't even want to drink her bottle and threw a tantrum when we had to get her out to get dressed. Spencer surprised me with some really thoughtful, unexpected gifts, but the highlight of the day was watching the girls excitement as they opened their gifts. Thanks to our wonderful parents for the great presents and wonderful hospitality. We loved spending the day with our siblings and the girls of course can't get enough their cousins. I can't end without mentioning all the great Snow Storms. We just couldn't get enough of the snow and hope we have more and more storms the rest of the winter. We had a wonderful Christmas season and now we are looking forward to a great New Year.