It's Christmas Time

I love Christmas! It means family time to me. And I love to be with my family. We haven't done lots of the things we typically do for one reason or another, but we have done some things that have been so enjoyable. Our family has watched a number of Christmas movies together, and then they inevitably lead to us talking about various themes related to love. I have loved this new tradition...even if some of the movies have been cheesy!


We love going to see the lights at Temple Square, but somehow we still haven't made it down there yet. Maybe tomorrow night, or maybe Christmas night, we will head downtown. If it stops raining! Can you believe it? It has been raining and snowing for about 4 days here. Thankfully it warms up in the day time so the roads are not slick and icy, but the idea of walking around downtown in the rain hasn't sounded good to any of us.


We made a gingerbread house...it promptly caved in, but the boys were excited about that as that meant they could go to town eating it. I secretly think they planned for it to be weak and cave in, so they could start eating it and not wait til Christmas day. The Chief made some caramels and I made some Christmas cookies with my bestest gf, Shauna. And we have had a lot of fun doing our Secret Santa around the house with our own family.




The traditional Santa photo from 2009...we haven't made it to see the Big Man this year yet!

 I'm most excited for the long weekend, where the 5 of us can be together. I dream of playing games, ticklefests, movies with us all snuggled on the couch, hot cocoa, and maybe even some Christmas caroling, in the family room of course. The Chief knows better than to let me sing in public! And of course, there will be Wii tournaments! Santa will be bringing some new games which we will be working on mastering!

Merry Christmas from our house to yours!