December

December was full of fun family activities, parties, gifts, and celebrating our Savior's birth.  This year was lots of fun.  Jaeley is just at the right age when she understands the magic of Christmas.  We had a fun time teaching her that the real reason for Christmas is to celebrate our Savior's birth.  We also had a fun time doing fun festive activities with the kids.  This year we also had a special visitor come to our house for the month.  Santa sent us a very special elf named Sparkle.  Sparkle would watch us all day to make sure we were being good.   Jaeley loved Sparkle and was sad when he had to go home to the North Pole.  She still prays for him that he will be safe and that he will have a good time with his family.


Ward Christmas Party

Our Ward's party theme was Christmas morning.  We all went in our pajamas and had breakfast at the church.  Each primary kid brought their blankets and pillows to listen to Christmas stories and received a stocking with goodies and toys.  Jaeley thought that this was really neat.  We had a really good time.

Zoo Lights

Every year since we moved to Salt Lake I have wanted to go to zoo lights and since it is our last year here we decided to go.  The zoo puts up lots of fun Christmas lights.  They have special animal lights that they decorate with.  We had a really fun time going with friends. 

Santa Came to the Village

We saw Santa Claus a lot in December, he even came to the Village, and since he was so close he thought that we would go see him again. By now Jaeley thought that he should have had what she wanted memorized.

Temple Square

We have made it a tradition to go to Temple Square and see the lights.  Jaeley loves to see the temple and we all had a really good time, even Brayden enjoyed it.

Christmas Eve/Christmas Morning

This year we spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning at our house.  We decided to have Christmas with just our little family.  I loved it!!!  It was so fun to be with just our little family, I think it made it more special.  We did a lot of fun things on Christmas Eve.  We started out by making gingerbread houses.  Rhett is a pro, I on the hand stink really bad.  I started over twice and then just gave up and helped Jaeley with hers.  Then we went sledding (it snowed on Christmas Eve, perfect!!). Then we had a nice dinner, and after that we read a Christmas story and let the kids open one present.  It was so much fun.   Christmas morning was so much fun, but poor Jaeley had to wait until Brayden woke up to open presents.  At first Jaeley was really sad because she had asked Santa for a bike but she didn't think that she got one but Santa tricked her and wrapped it instead of putting it together.  After we opened presents we ate breakfast, played for a while and then headed down to Beaver to visit family.

Christmas Holiday in Beaver

While we were in Beaver we attended lots of parties with family.  It was really fun to catch up with family that we haven't seen for a while.  Rhett of course got to go hunting and fishing.  We went sledding again and just played played and played.  It was so much fun.  I love Christmas time.  I love the feeling that I have, I love seeing family, and I love being able to celebrate Christ's birth.

I can't forget about Brayden.  He turned 10 months and is beginning to walk.  He is such a special boy and has such a special spirit.  We love him and are thankful everyday that our Heavenly Father sent him to our family.