Christmas (finally!)

Christmas Eve

We always spend Christmas eve with Paul's extended family (it's when they have their family Christmas Party).  This year it was at Shannon's house and it was just perfect.  They have a great toy room for the kids to play in and tons of room for the rest of the family.  The food was absolutely delicious and the white elephant gift exchange was fun.  Leila had a blast playing with her cousins, I barely saw her most of the night because she was having so much fun with so many cousins.  The kids got their new pajamas from their grandma and we got our box of chocolates.  Usually Connie gets pajamas for the kids but this year I wanted us all to match so I asked if I could make them.  With a lot of help from my mom I made pajama pants for Grey and Leila.  I was a little worried because Leila is really into nightgowns right now so I wasn't sure how she would feel about pajama pants but luckily she loved them.  We got home so late that both kids fell asleep on the drive home and went staright to bed.  Paul and I stayed up with my family watching a movie and then went to bed around 1 am. 

Christmas Morning

I was pretty excited for Christmas morning and woke up several times throughout the night and was having a hard time waiting for the kids to wake up.  Grey woke up betweena little before 8 so I decided to then wake Leila up. 

Grey checking out the presents before Leila had got up.  He wasn't quite sure what was going on. 

Coming down the hall with the kids, Leila was still pretty sleepy and kind of out of it. 

Our family in our Utah Utes pajamas.  I had come up with the idea to do this last year so I was pretty excited about it.  My parents had the same idea, I think our family, my parents and brother were all in red, black and white pajamas. 

Greydon quickly caught on to opening presents, but he was more interested in tearing things apart then what was in the package. 

Leila was mostly into the opening presents process, she kept asking "whats next, is there another present for me".  She was thrilled when she got her Hannah Montana movie, cash register, and blocks just like she had asked for.  She was super surprised when she got a bike too!

Greydon got some Legos, bath toys, movies and a whole bunch of clothes

Greydon found some chocolate in her stocking and went to town eating as much as she could.

Leslie and Jason joined us Christmas morning too.  Somehow they missed the memo on the Utah pajamas, but thats ok we still love you anyways. 

After we opened presents from Santa we went upstairs and had breakfast, watched some episodes of Community and waited for Erin and Chad to come over.

When Erin and Chad got there we opened presents from my parents and from all the siblings. 

Greydon was pretty excited about his dump truck from his Nana and Pop especially since he could ride on it.

And Leila loved her new scooter and helmet

Grey however did not enjoy sharing his new dump truck with Leila

Greydon and Leila were spoiled with a bunch more toys from my parents and Paul and I were spoiled with a bunch of things we needed too.  We got new sheets, emergency prepardness stuff, silverware, gift cards, clothing and a Blue Ray player.  It was a great Christmas!

We then headed over to Paul's moms house to open presents there.  The week before Christmas Leila started asking for a computer, we kept telling her that sometimes Santa can't bring everything you ask for.  Well Connie saved the day and had a computer for Leila, she was super excited.  Greydon and Leila also got a wagon from Connie.  I'm so excited to get it to Nevada and start using it (we got so much we couldn't fit everything in the car, so my mom's bringing the rest of our stuff down next week).  Paul got and OMM table, which is more of a present for me because now he can give me treatment whenever I want it.  And I got canning stuff, which I'm super excited to start using!

I hardly took any pictures at Connies house, it got a little hectic and I was trying to keep track of what my kids were opening and what was theirs and what was their cousins.

Christmas Night

Later that night we went to Paul's dad's house in Layton for Christmas dinner and open more presents.  The food is always delicious (Will is a great cook) I always look foward to the macaroni and cheese, pie and cookies.  I was a little disappointed because he usually makes tons and tons of cookies of all varieties.  This year he had been out of the country and only made it back in town right before Christmas, so we still got chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin  but I was definitely missing the snickerdoodles and thumb print cookies.   The kids loved their presents and for not seeing his grandkids very often he was right on with their gifts and clothing size. 

We had a great but busy Christmas day.  We enjoyed getting to see all of our family and feel really blessed with all that was done for us.  We are so very lucky to have such great families!