Thursday, December 25, 2008

Christmas 2008!

What a fun Christmas we had this year... Our first year not traveling! Jeffs parents came down for the week and it was so much fun! We just bounced back and forth between their house and ours and ate so much yummy food... played games... and visited.
It was fun to be here... relax and enjoy our little family.

Christmas Eve Dinner! Yummy! Rhea went all out!
The food was DEEEE-LICIOUS!


The first doll of the season (opened on Christmas Eve)... from a family friend!
Halie was so cute...
"A BABY DOLLY A BABY DOLLY!!!"
She got us all excited for Christmas Morning :)


Our Letter from Santa... Cookies.. Milk.. (Santa must have been hungry! When I was little we were told Santa liked diet mountain dew.... next year we are leaving "him" diet coke!)
and of course carrots for the reindeer!


Christmas morning was so fun... "Jim Grandpa and Rhea Grandma" came over to watch us open our gifts... We opened... and then enjoyed a yummy breakfast
and then off to their house for Round 2....
(^Please don't look to close at our worse than Charlie Brown Christmas Tree!... )
The tree "accidently" fell over Christmas Day... so we had to take it down! Shucks!

The best part about Christmas is the look on the kids faces when they opened their presents! Halie was thrilled with all the dolls she got!... Each time she opened one she would say "ANODA (another) DOLLY ANODA DOLLY".... Until we took it out of the package! It was so cute! Micah was so excited about the play house with the dishes and bowls and spoons and forks (This is what he would say when he told you what he wanted for Christmas)... but he complained that it didn't have any bedrooms (what was this child expecting??) ... This is what they got :)
Unfortunetly it snowed/rained on Christmas Eve... but we were glad that Santa was still able to deliver the playhouse... He was smart and delivered it to the garage instead of the backyard!

Besides the gifts.... it was so nice to be able to take a few days off from life and enjoy being with family... staying in pajamas all day... relaxing... visiting... and reminising!

Christmas is such a magical time of year... when I think of my childhood I can remember our Christmas's were so specail and fun!
I really cherish each one I get to spend with people I love!

This was ther little Christmas outfits for church! :)

9 comments:

Megan and Mike said...

Halie looks so small next to micah in that pic by the tree!!! what a great christmas you guys had!

Anonymous said...

Christmas was a blast! It was so much fun watching our grandchildren open and see the excitement on their faces. We really did enjoy being with Jeff and Melissa,Micah and Halie. Melissa did alot of baking and cooking that was yummy. Good ol Jeffy put the lights up on our house and was good enough to take them down in the freezing cold. Thanks kids for a wonderful
Christmas in St George.
Love
Gma Rhea
Gpa Jimbo

Matt&Melissa said...

How nice not to have to travel on Christmas, and just relax! I love the idea of leaving santa diet coke...thats hilarious! So cute, as always!

By the way, everyone who saw your christmas card at my house commented on how cute it was...you're so dang talented!!

Shannon said...

Our Santa gets eggnog..but since the diabetes hit our Santa he didn't get to drink it. (: I love Halie's outfit! Too cute!
I saw the header for the other blog...it was fun to see it...of course I do not mind! (: Happy New Year!

Jess Mangum said...

i love their little house.. how cute!! their christmas outfits are adorable.. i love the last pic. of them.. ha.. your kids crack me up!

Anonymous said...

That is the cutest playhouse I have ever seen! What cute pictures of the family and looks like everyone had a wonderful Christmas.

Rita

kurt and ash said...

I just want to sqeeze those two kids! They are both just too cute!! I miss you guys... geeez, I wish you would invite me over more often... haha!

micahandwhitney said...

i finally got to see the christmas pictures!!! they are sooo cute. it looks like they had a great christmas. i love the play house, it is darling. love you guys!

The Meisners said...

Melissa, your kids are so cute and it looks like you had a nice Christmas this year. I love their little Christmas outfits.