Christmas 2015

What a great Christmas!

It was our first time living close to both families and we made the most of it while still managing to have some of our own family time.

Before Christmas, we wanted to be sure to go to the Pitt Family Christmas Party so we headed down to California. We enjoyed our time with Gramma Sheryl, Aunt Randi, and the Shirley family. The Christmas party was fun. One of Brendon's aunts saw Henry and exclaimed, "Hi Henry!" Henry ran back to me while saying, "Mom, how does she know my name?!?"

We had great food and enjoyed a visit from Santa, which admittedly I wasn't very excited about, but it was a highlight. Henry and Maggie were both excited and loved their gift (TY toys). While Santa was on the stage with the other kids, Hazel kept running up to the stage to see Santa, but when someone lifted her up when it was her turn, she got scared and started running away. I sat on his lap with her and she did fine. She also loved her gift. The adults played a fun Christmas exchange game and everyone had a good laugh.

These are our Santa pictures from the library.

We came home for a few days before Christmas and enjoyed our family time. We had a Christmas Eve feast and drove around to see the lights. Christmas morning was a lot of fun. The kids enjoyed all of their gifts. The weather warmed up enough recently for the kids to enjoy jumping on the new trampoline. 

 

After Christmas we headed up to Orem for a week to enjoy being with my family. While there the adults went to The Roof which is always a treat. We played a lot of Nintendo 64 (Dr. Mario and Pokemon), built a snowman, slept a lot, and the kids watched a lot of movies. Brendon and I got a little date and went shopping together. Our final hoorah was when all of my siblings gathered together to celebrate Christmas, the New Year, and Ella's adoption all in one night. 

We had a great Christmas filled with a lot of family.