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Sunday, February 1, 2009

Christmas?

It occurred to me that I completely skipped over Christmas in my mass bloggings, so here are a few notes from that fabulous week. My uncle Don was in town with his family (who we see the least) and we all went to Temple Square for the lights the day before Christmas (SO crowded!) Early on Christmas Eve we had a big Martindale family get together in Ogden with games and SOO much food. It was pretty darn crammed, but really fun. We got some good bingo prizes/gifts. Then, we drove from Ogden out to Grantsville for Jeff's big family party. We had more excellent food there, and got some more great gifts. The little kids all acted out the nativity, and of course, Amie got to play the Baby Jesus. She was super hungry during that time though, and the Mary was a bit young to handle her, so our Nativity only had a Jesus for a short while. After festivities there were over, we drove out to Eagle Mountain, and by this time, the weather was REALLY bad. We were driving in the West Mountains in the middle of that snow storm and it took us so long, and was kinda scary. Lucky for Jeff the driver, Amelie was asleep most of the way. We finally arrived in one piece fairly late (all the kids in my family still sleep over at my parent's on Christmas Eve.) We then didn't get much sleep at all with the baby before the 7 am presents appointment. Of course, this is when Amelie finally decided to do her sleeping, so she missed all the gift opening. But she sure looked cute in her Christmas jammies. After a leisurely day at my mom's and an over-luscious Christmas Dinner, we went for presents with Jeff's immediate family in Taylorsville. Then finally home about 8pm on Christmas day. I think we used an entire tank of gas just in those 2 days of travel! Overall, it was SUCH a blast, just a bummer to be driving so much in such a snow stormy few days.