Family pic 2015

Family pic 2015

Monday, December 26, 2011

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

I so love Christmas! I love that I get to give my kids everything they want for Christmas without it meaning that I am spoiling them. My kids all loved what they got from Santa and from us and that makes me happy. I love getting gifts for the people I love and watching their faces when they open it. I love having time off with my kids when I'm not running around like crazy.

We tracked Santa on the Norad (I think that's it)  website and it was so fun. Shiloh keep asking where Santa was  and when he would get to Utah. I actually got her to sit on Santa s lap this year..though she sworn she would not..she spent a good fifteen minutes preparing me for the fact that she would not sit on his lap! Next thing I know she's sitting on his lap and afterward I asked her why she changed her mind and she said that Santa is a "great big bundle of joy". Love it!!


Most of all I love remembering the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! I love the nativity story but I get a little annoyed when people say that the innkeeper would have regretted his actions if he had only known. The Inn was full! Would turning out someone else to allow Mary a room make him a good guy? Anyway...our anniversary is the 17th of December and this year we actually got to go on a little trip to celebrate (thanks to my very wonderful friend) and we took a train to Grand Junction, Colorado. Damon had never been on train and very much wanted to try it.
                      As you can see he loved it..haha.. It was an early departure :)
                                          This is the sunrise from the train
                                          This is the Colorado River
                                           Also the Colorado River
Damon and I visited the Colorado Monument while we were there and it's really beautiful. I want go back and take the kids
Very fun trip but the train ride felt really long and I was very ready to be home by the end.