Christmas

Disclaimer: Ok there are a lot of pictures. I should have made a slide show but they take too much time and usually frustrate me. I wanted to do some of those collage things but I don't know how so there are a lot of pics. Look if you want and enjoy.

I thought I should post some of our Christmas vacation pictures on here. It's a little late but I guess it is better late than never.

We went to Salt Lake one night to have dinner at Crown Burger (yum!) and go see the lights at Temple Square. It's been a long time since I have done that. It was fun but I remember there being more lights when I was a kid. Or maybe I was just so much younger that it seemed like a trillion lights. We had a fun night.

Zoee playing with one of a million dolls at my parents house. My mom has so many baby dolls because of preschool and Zoee loves playing with all of them. She puts them to sleep and then makes sure to tell everyone Shhhh, be quiet.



Zoee loves to play the piano when we are there. We all love it so much too. Not. It was funny to watch her because she would press every key and scoot her butt along the bench so she could go all the way down to the end.



Zoee and Popits playing in the snow and building a snowman.





Of course our trip home would not be complete if we did not play Golf. So we did. About 20 times. It's such a fun game...even when you lose huh mom?



Another trip outside to play in the snow. This time with Dad.



I think this might have been one of the highlights for Nate. He got to snow blow for the first time. It was during one of the big storms and he spent about an hour clearing the sidewalks and driveway for us. My dad said we needed to come up more often so Nate can do all the grunt work. I guess when you don't have to do something and didn't grow up having to do it all the time then it is fun.

Popits wanted a nap. Zoee wasn't having any of that. She wanted to wrestle instead.



Zoee making pies with Greema and taking a nap with Popits.



Sunday before Christmas.

Zoee riding aunt like a horse and playing on Christmas Eve.




Christmas morning.

We should have just saved the money we spent on presents and got Zoee some boxes instead. My dad got my mom some new bar stools and they came in these big boxes. My dad cut a door (which he actually crawled in and out of several times) and windows in them and hooked them all together so they could play in their "condo." That's pretty much where they spent the rest of their time together.

My brother got guitar hero and brought it up to play on Christmas night. It was so much fun! They hooked it up to the laptop and projector so it would show big on the wall. It was huge and the living room was turned into a rock concert. We had a blast!




We had a really great time in Utah and we were sad to leave. It was a really great Christmas. We knew that we would not have a lot of money to spend this year so we set our budgets for each other and Zoee very small. I thought it would be really hard and not very fun to have Christmas without spending a lot of money but I would have to say that this was one of the best Christmas's I have had yet. It was perfect and I couldn't have wanted anything else.

I am so blessed to have such a wonderful family and such great in-laws. I was humbled by many things this season and am grateful for all that I have.

One of the best presents ever!