Okay, so I finally got some pictures recovered, hopefully there will be more to come. However this Christmas was so much fun with Carter. It was definately busy however. First of all, Layne and Lindsey (my bro and sis-in-law) along with my two cute little nephews (Jonah and Rex) came up from Phoenix for the week. It was so fun to see them. We went tubing up at Bogus and just relaxed with each other. First off, my parents tried something new this year. Instead of presents on Christmas day, they did the 12 days of Christmas. It was great. Each day there was a present to open and my parents focused a lot of the presents on the meaning of Christmas and to remember Christ. I enjoyed it all. It really made Christ the center of the season for us.
Christmas eve was spent with my family as we went to my sister Stephanie's house. We kept up many traditions. First being, breakfast burritos for dinner. Then on to the talent show. This talent show is special though. Everyone must participate, therefore; it becomes comedy hour for the adults' talents. For example, my sisters danced (choreographed) to a song from High School Musical 3. My brother taught a math lesson, my parents played a song using only the mouth pieces of a trumpet. Jaromy and I did a little lesson as well...how to put on makeup...(see picture below). After the talent show the traditions continued with acting out Luke 2 as my dad read it (since we had the baby- Jaromy and I were Mary and Joseph) then we did a white elephant game. I made pajamas (another tradition with our family- to be opened on Christmas eve) and shirts for my boys...they match! It's so cute!!!
After hanging with my fam, we went over to Jaromy's parents house. It was pretty fun. His brother was in town finally after being in brazil for the past 2 christmas's and holly (jar's sis) was in town too. We watched a movie and then off to bed for santa to come. One tradition that they have in their family is a scavengar hunt for their big presents. It was fun...and we were able to get almost all the clues without Dad's help. Opening presents was fun, especially with Carter. Jaromy's parents gave us a video camera...which we love. Carter got lots of little things that he loves as well. We hung out there for a bit then had dinner at my parent's house and after dinner, back to his parents house. CRAZY!! but we loved every second of it.
