Christmas

We had an interesting Christmas. Fun at times and not so fun at times. TC's entire family stayed at our house for Christmas (20 people-9 kids, 4 of them under 1!) It was great to be together as a family unfortunately the stomach flu went through almost all of us. including on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. So that put a damper on things! Then our whole little family got pink eye and a several of us got a bad cold that some of us are still recovering from. Gotta love winter! Anyway here are some fun pictures.

Christmas Eve

 Acting out the Christmas Story and opening up Christmas pajamas

 Christmas Eve preparations

 Santa Claus brought Disney Land to our kids this year! We just went this past week with TC's parents. I'll write a blog post about that soon! I'm a bit behind on my updates!)

 Christmas Day! (See the bowl in the background? TC's sisters' kids were all sick that day and couldn't even barely open their presents. Sad!)

 TC's parents with all the babies born this year in matching outfits. (All of TC's siblings that are married had babies this year.)

 Having fun together!!

 Sledding!! Savanna and Clark loved being with their cousins! Clark didn't even seem to mind that he's the only boy!

 More fun pictures just hanging out and doing crafts. There was a lot of just hanging out with people getting sick but it was still a lot of fun!

 Saturday, December 28th, we had a great opportunity to see TC's sister, Apryl, sealed to her husband and daughter, Sariah, in the Brigham City temple. What an awesome experience that was. We are so excited for their little family!!

 All of our kids asleep on the way home from Brigham City. All of them were babysat at TC's cousin's house who lives in Ogden and then we went to Chuck-a-Rama afterwards.

 Horsing around with Grandpa

 

 We had some friends in town who were visiting family so we were able to get together with them. Here's a picture of the guys-Tim, Devon (him and his family live here), TC, and Chris.

 Our community had a fun Noon Day's Eve party at the community center. There were games, food, balloon animals, a photo booth, dancing, and a countdown at noon. We had a lot of fun! TC's brother, James, was staying with us still so we hung out with him the rest of the day. We met my parents for dinner, then we went and saw holiday lights, played games and watched the ball drop.

 We took down the tree and decorations on New Year's Day. Always makes me sad!

 My parents were in town for the holidays too (It was our year for Christmas with TC's family but we still saw them a few times.) Savanna ended up with the stomach flu on New Year's Day but my parents still came over for a bit and we exchanged presents.

Overall besides sickness we had a great Christmas and New Year's. Stay tuned for the Disney Land update. I don't have time to write that post today. I'll just tell you though it was SO MUCH FUN!!!!