Christmas 2014

It has been way too LONG since I've blogged.  My health has been lame since July, and this is the last thing on my mind. But because I love to keep records of our life... I'm determined to start back up again. Unfortunately, I didn't take a whole lot of pictures on Christmas. But I'll share what I have. So here we go.  We had sooo many wonderful people come and carol us at our house.  I love carolers! Lots of yummy treats too.  Here is one family that all have beautiful voices and harmonized so well with one another. They sounded so professional.

Christmas Eve the kids went to bed rather early.  And Santa had come and gone by 11:15pm  So it was nice that I could go to bed earlier.  Christmas morning, I was awoken at 4:55am by a sleep talking toddler.  I could hear a kid or two down stairs. So I got up and it was Isaiah and Sadee. Maci came down shortly after that.  The kids had been awake most of the night.  At 6am, Elijah came down.  Ezra came down at 6:45am.  So finally, 7am, the kids were able to open presents.

Pre opening of the presents

We let Uriah sleep though, because we knew he'd be ornery.  The kids all opened their presents and were very shocked to get tablets this year. 6 tablets = no fighting over turns. It's so nice.  Santa got a great deal on them, otherwise they wouldn't have received them. It was nice opening the presents and the kids were all nice and kind about it.  Years in the past there were comments from a younger kid or two about not getting what they wanted or not getting enough.

Post opening of the presents

Maci got a few wigs for Christmas. After trying them on, I realize that I am definitely not a brunette.She looks great though.

Ezra LOVES his remote control truck!

After we opened presents, we had to get going to Oroville so we could Skype with Cami. 

 

And we made it! Spencer got the parents all connected. It was so much easier talking to her this time around, vs. before. Since we know we'll see her in a few days. So there were no tears, just lots of smiles and laughter.

 

We got to skype with Derek, Jaci, and Logan too. It was awesome!  It had been snowing in Utah, so Derek was about to put in a full days work plowing the storage facilities in the area. I am so thankful for modern technology.

Jason got his predator sweatshirt.

Unfortunately, we didn't get to stay very long at the Meyers.  We have to take turns at each familes. So Thanksgiving we spend a lot of time at the Meyer's, and Christmas we spend a lot of time at the McOmbers. We got to see Mom, Dad, Spencer, the Harps and Barkeys, but not the Fords. It was weird not being able to see them on Christmas. But we'll see them on NYE. 

At the McOmber's, there was tons of food, presents, & great company.  Not too many pictures from their house though.

The kids got a ton of stuff from Grandma, Grandpa, and Uncle T.T. Maybe it just felt like a lot of stuff since it was x's 6. :-)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My whole life, we have visited with my grandparents every Christmas Day. Once I had my own family, I didn't stop this tradition. We usually go to Great Grandma's house in the evening. But for the first time ever, we weren't able to visit Grandma in her home. She is in a rehabilitation facility right now. Learning how to walk again. So we went there to hang out with her. She was in high spirits and funny as ever. We're just so thankful we go to end our wonderful Christmas Day seeing Great Grandma Meyer.