Christmas 2012

Christmas 2012 marked the first Christmas spent in our new home.  It was so fun to have room to put up our decorations and even have 2 Christmas trees!  I keep having moments where I feel more and more like my mom.  This time it was because I made the downstairs tree have all the mismatched homemade ornaments on it and the upstairs tree had matching ornaments and was a little more fancy.  That's the way we always did it growing up.  Now hopefully I can create the same kinds of wonderful memories for my kids that my parents did for me.  We enjoyed Christmas Eve dinner, read the Christmas story from the bible and opened the traditional Christmas pajamas on Christmas Eve.  Santa brought the kids a trampoline so they had to wait a few months to actually get to use it.  This was kind of a strange Christmas for me because I had to leave late afternoon to head to Salt Lake City.  I had to fly out early the next morning for my niece, Janelle's, wedding.  The weather was iffy so I decided to play it safe and stay at my brother Darin's house in the Salt Lake area instead of risking driving the canyon in the wee hours of the morning.  When I got back all the new toys were put away and even six months later when I am cleaning I come across things that I didn't even know we had since I was gone when it was taken out of the package.  All in all a great Christmas with my cute little family.  Love being with them so much!

Decorating the upstairs tree

First view of Christmas morning

Christmas Pajamas