A few quick thoughts and images from Christmas 2008

We headed back to Utah for Christmas and since we still own a home there and there are a few more beds than at my mom's house we decided that was place for the holiday festivities. Although, my sister Cindy might not have thought we made such a good decision since the weather kept us at our house throughout Christmas and we didn't make it down to Provo to visit with her until quite late Friday afternoon and I'm sure not all of her lovely Christmas dinner was eaten, but then it just wouldn't be Christmas without leftovers, right? Except that we didn't end up with any leftovers at our house, instead we almost needed to order Chinese because of the lack of food items in that house right now because William decided on several of the trips to Utah to bring my entire food storage to the tiny kitchen in Idaho where we are bursting at the seams, and on Christmas day grocery stores are closed. Luckily, we managed. But that might be jumping ahead just a bit. So back to where we were, we enjoyed the Christmas festivities at our house and how glad we were to have such fun festivities with Uncle Gabe and Aunt Brooke--even though they did miss the fondue and scriptures and stories. (Note to Gabe and Brooke: in our house if we simply say Gabe and Brooke the kids don't have any idea who we are talking about). But they made it over before Santa could be confused about where they would be sleeping that night. And in the morning....our kids slept until 8:15! I thought kids had to keep to code and arise before the sun, but for some reason our kids didn't get the memo this year. Maybe that's because Jane and Mitch were sleeping in the basement and William made them take an oath they wouldn't come upstairs without an adult and I think he must have included some sort of magic sleeping spell in the oath because I was the first person awake in the house!

At any rate, it was a great morning and Luke was thrilled with his Thomas the Train table that is still in Utah because it was too big to fit in the car (I guess Santa didn't really check measurements) and Jane and Mitch got what every other kid seems to have gotten this year: a Wii. I think the elves must have gotten in a groove and really churned those things out. But it's a great toy that really hasn't had a moment of rest since it left the box. Oh and of course there were more legos for Mitch the Builder and Jane thinks she is Julia Child with her new cookbooks, Brooke and Gabe have 101 things they can do with potato, my mom can give her dog a pedicure and William has lots of upcoming adventures. Oh, and William is going to have this fine piece of literature published. What a day!

Here are a few of the scenes:

(Ok, so this wasn't really taken on Christmas, its back in our little temporary condo,but Jane really wanted to include a picture of her new vocation)