christmas joys

(We took pictures with our "new" camera from Ezra and Michelle, but don't have the usb cord yet, so no pictures...boring I know!)
We spent Christmas day with Josh's parents and family, and it was of course, SUPER! It was in Grandma and Grandpa's new house, and the cousins had a fun time exploring all the corners inside and out. I love that my kids have so many cousins close to their age, and that they get to see them all the time. I remember growing up with two cousins we saw pretty often, David and Danny, and I have some pretty fun memories of things we did, and trouble we got into.



Our Christmas morning was a fun one, I think it was Shayla that got up first...maybe around 7:30am (niiiicccee!!) and we just played with the toys Santa brought. She loved her boy barbie (I called him Ken, she said that was NOT his name. My bad.) Liam loved his garbage truck, and Ammon..well..Ammon got an alarm clock WITH a radio AND double alarms AND a weather predictor. If any of you know Ammon, you KNOW he was in 7th heaven. He even wanted to keep the cardboard box it came in to organize whatever...and what can I say..the pack rat in me said yes.



What a peaceful, happy and blessed Christmas we all enjoyed this year. To have my children and husband healthy and close to me is one of the greatest gifts really, one I appreciate more and more as I see families with very sick children and husbands who are gone a lot, or gone for good. We read the Christmas story from Luke Chapter 2 on Christmas day, as we were all sitting on the floor with our new treasures, and it was just the sweetest feeling to know that we were sharing our testimonies of our Savior with our children, and really, isn't that the best gift to share on Christmas? ;)