Christmas in Colorado

With all the new changes in our life I still wanted to make sure we made it out to celebrate Christmas in Denver. My Aunt Carrie Lou and her family came from Boston to celebrate as well which was such a nice addition to the festivities- especially the Christmas Eve Caroling event. We really did sound like a choir with 2 Boston Symphony Choir members there. :)

We did a lot of the usual Christmas stuff- making cookies, caroling, Christmas Eve gifts, Nativity reenactment, and early Christmas morning gift giving-6:30am this year. We had 20 people squished in the living room/kitchen on Christmas morning. It was crazy as usual with a moment or 2 of "no visible carpet". The notable gifts of the day were Sarah's Shake Weight, David's huge Machete, the guys metal figurines from Grandma, Joseph's Onesie with a butt flap, Jacob's reaction to getting Spongebob stuffed-animal, Just Dance Wii game, and our baby hiking backpack. I'm sure there's more, but those were the most memorable ones.

Slippers for Christmas Eve

Lily plays the part of "Baby Jesus"

Where's the floor?

Shake Weight-hahaha!

This is a onesie with a butt flap

Sponge Bob!!!!

Just Dance, ha!

We LOVE the backpack!

Travis and I also spent an evening with my friends from high school doing a white elephant and eating a delicious pot luck dinner. It was so nice catching up with everyone and getting just about all the girls together again- Laura, Chelsea, Jocelyn, Catie, Kym-me, Trisha, and Lisa. 5 out of the 8 of us are pregnant too. (Me, Catie, Kym-me, Lisa, and Trisha) Exciting stuff. So good to see everyone!

We also got to talk to Jordan who was flying out to Nashville from the MTC. It was so good to hear from him and he sounded so happy! So exciting to have a brother on a mission.

It was really nice to be home for the holidays!, although we did miss the snow. It came the next weekend, of course.

p.s. Everyone loved having Lily around! Mom even let her jump up on her bed a couple times! She got lots and lots of love.