Thursday, January 7, 2010

The Christmas Craze

Wow this Christmas season went by way too fast. I think we were too busy partying to enjoy it. We finally got the keys to our house on Nov. 30. We are so happy to be in our own space with our own things, wearing the same clothes for 4 months is no fun.



We hurried to get things ready for our friends, the Heiners, to come and stay with us. We partied with them for the weekend, trying to sell them on the idea to move to AZ, it hasn't worked yet but we don't give up that easily. We took them to the AZ science center, barros pizza (for the best pizza and wings), played games all night long and the temple lights. It was sad to see them go but we are super happy that they came even if it was for only a few days.


After that we had to get things ready for Christmas. Olivia is a popular girl these days and lots of our family came to AZ to help her celebrate the birth of Christ. Both sets of my grandparents came, my mom's brother and his family, and my Aunt Lily. We spent the week of Christmas cleaning and shopping. On the 23rd we all went out for Christmas dinner at Firebirds, since Jenny and Bryan would be at The Bluth's house for Christmas Eve. Then the next day was spent at brunch and opening presents with Jenny before they had to leave.



We have a tradition in my family to do our gift exchange on Christmas Eve Night, it is usually followed by a fashion show where we get to show off our new clothes that mom and dad got us. This year was super sad because there was no show, no Jenny either. It just didn't feel the same without her or being at my parents home in california either. But we made the best of it, Olivia and I made sugar cookies for Santa to eat. We opened our presents. And then headed home to get ready for Santa Claus to come.



Christmas Morning started much later than usual. Olivia slept in until 9 (which is actually pretty early for her). Grandpa Sellers came to see Liv open her presents from mommy and daddy. Her favorite was Prince Phillip, whom she called her Prince Charming, once she unwrapped him. Then everyone from my Parent's house came over to watch her open her Santa presents and eat breakfast. Later that day we headed over to the Sellers' house for a traditional Christmas Dinner, with Grandma, Grandpa, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Kristin's family and Tiffany's Family.




We spent the rest of our time that week sewing with the girls and the boys played cards. We even got a chance to take my mom's parents to see the temple lights and see my brother in law's dad sing at the temple. We had so much fun with everyone that weekend. It really make me glad that families can be together forever.