Christmas 2008

December WOW what a month!!

It’s been a very busy and long month but very fun. First off, Katie and Braydon stayed for two weeks after Thanksgiving and we did a lot of stuff to get ready for Christmas. Lindsey came up and we all stayed up all night dipping chocolate and had a lot of fun. I worked the next morning and got off early than the girls and I went and did some shopping for the day. That night we met up with Katie’s mother & sister in-law and we went to see “Twilight” and had great dinner it was a really fun week end. We missed having Jessie with us that weekend, but she was painting her new house and getting it ready to move in.

On the 10th Katie and Braydon helped me take my Mom Christmas shopping and to lunch it was a wonderful. We went to like 4 stores I know it really wore her out but she had great time. We went to Cracker Barrel it had been a long time since she had been there, she loved it.

On the 12th I helped Katie drive back to Vegas and I stayed for the weekend and flew back on the 15th I love to fly……;o) This only gave me a week or so to get all my Christmas shopping done and help mom get all her things ready for Christmas it was crazy and then in the middle of it all I got a really bad cold and along with that the cough I ended up taken work off and not sleeping for days (have I mentioned I HATE WINTER AND SNOW).

This year’s Christmas was a little weird for us. Katie in Vegas and Jessie getting her new house and with the really bad weather it was hard for the kids to make it to Heber so on Christmas eve we went down to visit Grandma & pa Moore and Richard was in from California it was great to see him.

Christmas day Jim woke me and Em up at 6am he had to work at 8 so we got up and opened our gifts Emily got lots of clothes and an IPod touch can I just say she is spoiled …..lol Jim got clothes an electric shaver, shop vac, and watch I got clothes, meat slicer, watch and Jim and I got a GPS it is so cool I love it. OH ya and we got like 10 or more movies……lol. We had a good breakfast and then went to Lindsey’s to give them their gifts it was fun seeing Hannah open things. Then we went to mom’s when we got there Sue and all her family was there it was nice to see everyone it’s been a while since we have seen them. We all opened all of Grandma’s gifts she was very good to us all. She worked very hard to get cards made for all of girls and they were very nice. So we left and went to Jessie’s so they could open gifts Delaney and Nichols loved their stuff. It was a long day but very fun we headed back home and that’s when the big snow storm hit the canyon was really bad but we made it. We had a good dinner and watched one of our movies.

I know this was a long and boring posted ….lol but it’s over now and we are in Vegas with Katie and Shane so I’ll try and give you an update later on the New Year.

Thanksgiving Dinner with the Family 2008

This year for Thanksgiving the girls went to all of there in-laws. So Jim, Em, and I went to Aunt Jenines for are Turkey Dinner. We had a great time it was fun to see everyone.

So since we all went to our in-laws for the Holiday we decided to have our family Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday. This year was really great, I had my mom come up to enjoy the day with us. We enjoyed the Turkey and all the trimmings and ate till we couldn't eat anymore. There's nothing like a home cooked Thanksgiving meal. I am so Thankful that my mom and dad taught me how to make the traditional Thanksgiving dinner; and that she was able to come and joy it with us this year. We all had a great time chatting, and eating, and watching the kids have fun. I love this time of year with family it reminds me of all the great past times I had when I was growing up and when I first started my family. I feel very blessed that my girls want to have the same family values and family traditions.