Over Thanksgiving we got to spend with my family. I love it when I get together with my sisters and we always have enough food to last days. We got the opportunity to spend five days up in Idaho. It was so nice to just sit around and do nothing. (And when I say nothing we literally did nothing) To me those are the find of breaks I love. I am not the type of person who like to be on the go all the time. I am more than satisfied with just hanging out with friends and family and just being together.
Doing the every other year this with Chris's family and mine with holidays made it that Christmas was in Utah this year. Which for me was excited yet sad. I am always sad when I do not get to see my family but I am learning to share. (Slowly but surely)
The month of December we got pounded with snow. When they say it is going to snow it snows. So the plan was that Chris's parents were going to come to our house Christmas morning. Then we starting thinking maybe we should just go up there. So we watched the weather and they kept saying their was going to be an awful storm on Christmas Day. So we were preparing that we were not going to go up their and we are glad we didn't. The road were yucky up in Ogden so it was a good thing we stayed home. I am going to stop rambling and get this post finished.
So we had Christmas by ourselves. We put Chary to bed Christmas Eve and we started putting out her fun stuff. Chris got to put together his first
santa gift. I don't think he was thrilled about it but guess what it will not be your last. We got up the next morning and
Charly walks out and looks at her new desk, the stroller, and the new baby doll. Then she looks under the tree and sees that their are
tootsie rolls and we asks me to open it. So I guess that was more exciting then the rest. The first few presents she opened were some new sticker books, puzzles, and coloring books. By the time those were opened she was done. She did not want to open anything else. So we went and had breakfast, open presents from each other, and then just left the rest until
Charly wanted to finish. I think we finished opening her last present at 6 pm that night. It was a nice relaxing day. We had fun. I have added some pictures to show you some of that morning.

Christmas Eve Frosting cookies for Santa

Opening her present Christmas Eve

Eating her
tootsie roll

So excited about her books

My daughter is not a poser is she

Dad showing her how to use her MP3 Shaker from Grandma Lauri and Grandpa Terry

Charly and Dad
Charly and mom

Feeding her baby (she will be a good big sister someday)