Christmas 2012!

It seems I was so busy/having so much fun for the actual Christmas festivities that I didn't take any pictures!  We started out Christmas Eve early with a trip to Ogden to visit with my extended family (they always meet at noon so we can get together without interfering with other plans.)  Actually, Jeff got called in to work at the last (7am) minute, but just for a few hours and was off just in time to go with.  We had soups and sandwiches, played our usual game of white elephant BINGO, and generally visited.  I guess there was also a pinata, too, but we left at a very specific time because it was Jeff's family's year for Eve festivities.
From there, we went to Grantsville to have Eve with the extended Poynor family.  We had ham and salads/hors d'oeuvres dinner, exchanged many lovely gifts, played the left right game, etc. From there, we went to Chris' house to exchange family gifts since we could not all get together at the same time the next day.  That was a fun exchange.
From THERE, we went to my mom's house to sleep over so we wouldn't have to wake up super early the next morning to drive down.  The girls were up with Christmas movies suuuuuuper late, but Jeff and I (i.e. Carson) were actually the first ones up suuuuuuuuper early (like, before 6!) The girls especially enjoyed seeing the remnants of cookies, milk and reindeer carrots they left for Santa. We opened gifts (Santa brought their Cuddluppets to grandma's,) had a great breakfast and then lazed about with our new gifts until our awesome Christmas prime rib dinner (complete with goblets and bubbly.) Some highlights were my mixer and griddle, some sweet games and Jeff's hard drive filled with TV and movies.  The girls loved their Cuddleuppets, various dolls and a castle tent. My favorites for Carson were a playmat that my mom made, a rockin' music station and a onesie he got that says "Dude! Your wife keeps checking me out!" Late in the afternoon, we headed to our house to finish off the gifts.  (At that point, I was reminded how I need a much bigger house.)
We were incredibly blessed this year, as we always are. I love, love, love the holidays, and all the time we get to spend with family.  They went by so quickly this year!  Can't wait for the next ones! :)

 My pretty stack from MalMal.

 

 My first Christmas!

 

 Apparently the forward-facing camera on my phone is of horrible quality.  But these are the only glimpses of our Christmas outfits.