Christmas and December

Here is it another new year. We hope that you have a wonderful year and that you will have a wonderful new year. Here are a few pictures from our month of December that we would like to share.

Here is Santa's big gift. The kids were so excited. Ufortunatly just after Rus and I got it up we had the big snow storm sot the kids only got one day of jumping.

My little chef. I made aprons and hats for both the kids. I have to give credit to my mother-in-law for the hats. She helped me make them.

For Christmas Eve we spent the day at my parents. Good food and games are always fun. Here is Ryan loving on his new quilt from grandma and grandpa. He loves it to pieces. It is a little big since he is still in a toddler bed, but once we get a big bed for him it will be perfect. I love listening to my dad read Luke chapter 2, which he does every Christmas. Rusin has his tradition of playing the church movie "The Nativity", turning down the sound and playing Celine Dion's song "O Holy Night" instead of the movie. It is very moving and touching.

Trying to get warm.

We took our annual trip to the visitors center. It was very cold. Annalynn was contantly scrunched up on the ground with her coat wrapped around her legs. We were planning on finnishing up our Christmas shopping that night, but a crazy thing happened. We had turned in some metal to the recycling place. He cashed the check (from recycling), but much to our dismay they cashed it against our account. It was a fairly substantial check so we were now in the hole. What a crazy thing to know that you had so much $$$ and go to the store to get gas and your card is declined. Hubby was upset I was upset. I've made mistakes before in the checkbook, but never that big of a mistake before. So we sort of had a damper on the evening. But I love listening to President Hinckley talk at the Nativity. The comercials inside the visitors center are so funny. Reminds me so much of my own children and the crazy and funny things that they do.