Christmas 2008

Christmas was so much fun this year! The kids are at such a fun age and still believe in the Magic of it all. They were pretty spoiled by Santa so they must have been on the NICE list, despite all of my threats that they weren't going to make it there this year if they didn't behave. This was our first year staying at home on Christmas morning. It was fun taking our time and playing with all of our stuff. We ate a huge breakfast - biscuits and gravy - that my wonderful hubby made. It was a fun morning and then we headed to Thatcher later in the day to celebrate with the Bryce Family.

Here are some pics with some of the gifts we got.
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Here are some pics of Nash and his Erector set (the only thing that he begged to get from Santa). Santa and wife stayed up till 3am putting together the Erector set Crane and it was being taken apart within the first 15 minutes into Christmas morning. Nice.


He's just a little excited to get to his presents.





Jacob, who is our car fanatic, got a Lightning McQueen computer (that he has been asking for since Halloween), his car rug with car legos that make Radiator Springs.





Here is Logan playing with his marble run/set as well as his "Spiderman Hotwheel" which is all he asked Santa for. Since Santa has never heard of a Spiderman Hotwheel this is what Logan got and he was so happy. :)







Lainie got her first baby doll, pink of course. She also got a pink giraffe and some cute clothes.



Kissing her baby






Mmm... good present

For the first time in 11 years, I actually surprised Ragan with a Christmas gift - he got an Xbox. I want to say THANKS to Alan, Devin, Mom, and Sonda - I couldn't have figured it all out without you!



Ragan spoiled me as usual with way too much. Here is a pic of the beautiful picture of the Mesa AZ Temple that he got me.

I figure since I do the posts on this blog and I looked like the crypt keeper on Christmas morning, I cropped myself out of the pic but wanted to show my beautiful picture.

We had a fun Christmas season. For journaling I wanted to list some of the fun stuff we did besides the Polar Express. We went out several nights and got treats at DQ and drove around with the kids looking at Christmas lights and listened to Christmas music. We took the kids to Wal-Mart and split up and they got to pick out little gifts for eachother - this was a fun way to teach them about the giving aspect and not just receiving. We went and walked around the Mesa Temple and looked at the lights and Nativity displays - this was a really fun night!!! We also did a cousin book exchange with the Bryce Family and the adults did a White Elephant gift exchange, which was a lot of fun!!!