A Very Merry Christmas!!

Dave and I had a great Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. The previous post shows that we went shooting with a lot of my brothers. And after that we went eat delicious soup my sister-in-law Ann made. Then we came home, put dinner in the crock pot, Dave went to Costco to get his snazzy new glasses, I put together our never-too-late cookie plates and then my brother Joe and his wife Liz and son Peter came over for dinner. So we ate dinner and played UpWords (AKA best game ever). Then when they left we delivered the rest of our cookies. Hardly anyone was home, as expected. But it was fun anyway! We ended the night by watching one of our favorite movies, "White Christmas". 

The next morning we awoke early so we could unwrap our presents before talking with Dave's sister Juliana on the phone. She is serving a mission in Portugal, so Dave's family all conference called with her. It was nice to hear from her (especially since I don't know her well, we've only met once really).

Dave and I really enjoyed giving each other presents---we both did a good job, I feel, on picking what the other person really wanted. So it was fun. We also made sure to start our own tradition of reading about the birth of our Savior in both the Book of Mormon and New Testament. And we watched a portion of the video "Reflections of Christ" which is really good!

After we finally go ready for the day we drove up to Perry to have dinner/celebrate with my family. It was a lot of fun. We played games, opened more presents, ate lots of food and just hung out. I even started to learn how to knit--thanks Brooklyn!!

We had a wonderful Christmas and are so grateful for the reminder and emphasis on Christ's birth each year. We went earlier in the week to the production "Savior of the World" at the Conference Center downtown. It was so beautiful and so great to see their portrayal of Christ's birth and resurrection. I highly recommend you go next year, if you are close to SLC. We love you all and hope you each had a wonderful Christmas as well!!

 Our beautiful tree. We bought a star finally :)

I bought Dave an argyle sweater---I finally convinced them they weren't just for old men. And they go very well with his new glasses, don't you think?

 And here are the pajama pants I picked for him---I wasn't sure that he'd like them---but he does! Much better than basketball shorts :)

 And here is a coat I actually picked out myself. I love red coats! 
Thanks Dave :)

And here is a sweater that Dave picked all by himself. Good choice honey!!

Opening another present! By the way, the red pajamas were from Dave too :)

 Dave has been talking a lot about a game called "Dominion" and how much he LOVES it. So I got it for him---now I just need to learn how to play it!

Boots! Love them :)

 This is Dave closing his eyes because he was so scared that I hadn't gotten him StarCraft 2. He's been asking  me for the past month, "Did you get me StarCraft 2? Did you get me StarCraft 2?" So, now he can rest. He'll be taking the Monday after Christmas off, even though I work, so he can hopefully get it out of his system :) Time will tell....

Ah, true love (above!)

 But this is even better true love :)

Dave in his new Santa hat holding "Despicable Me" from his sister Becky. Thanks Becky for everything.

And thank-you to everyone one else too!!