Pre-Christmas Festivities

Due to Dave and I both coming from split families, we get to celebrate big holidays like Christmas several different times. Miles really seemed to enjoy celebrating Christmas a few different times. We aren't even done celebrating Christmas yet either. Oh boy!

Miles really got in to opening presents this year. He understood that the faster the wrapping paper came off, the faster he would get to see what was inside. He'd open a present, admire it for a bit, and then move on to the next one. He was always ready for more! We had to work with him some this year on being thankful for what he got. We also tried to teach him about the true meaning of Christmas and that it is Jesus' birthday, but I'm not entirely sure that sunk in this year. Maybe next year?

We took down the Christmas tree today and Miles kept asking why we were taking it down. After answering him several times with "Christmas is over" he finally came up to us and said, "Christmas is over." He didn't sound too happy by that though. Dave jokingly said that the next holiday we will celebrate is Dave's birthday. Now Miles is all excited and ready for Dave's birthday. Ha! I had to point out that Valentine's Day is actually the next big holiday. Can't let Dave forget that one!

Christmas at Great Grandpa & Grandma's

He is in constant motion always

He got new trucks and also a cute outfit!

We decided to spend Christmas in Utah this year. I was really missing Utah and wanted to go visit. While out there we were able to check on our townhouse and also have an enjoyable evening with our old neighbors. In addition to that we got to spend some time with some of Dave's family. It was a very nice trip. We were delayed in coming home by a couple of days though due to snowstorms, but it was nice to be able to spend more time out there.

Miles wanted a picture by the horses

We went out to eat at Tucanos with our old neighbors. We had a wonderful evening spending time with them!

Baby Ian on the carousel

They enjoyed riding the carousel at the Provo Beach Resort

Dave's brother, Dan, who has been living in Alaska for the last 11 years moved to Logan, UT over the Christmas holiday. Dan and his family arrived in Logan the Sunday evening before Christmas. They only had a little bit of time Monday morning before they were on the road again for St. George to surprise her family for Christmas. We took full advantage of them being close and all showed up Monday morning to spend some time with them. Good thing they bought a big house and none of their furniture had been delivered yet because the six children and eight adults that were there had a great morning playing/roughhousing in their house.

The two littlest having fun with their dads and uncles

Miles had a blast