Christmas!

Our Christmas started out on the 23rd at my Mom's house. It is a Danish tradition to have "Lille Jule Aften" at my mom's house and eat "Ris Alamande". For anyone who doesn't know what this is....Its a game, where you shave an almond and put it into a big bowl of rice pudding. Then, you stir it up so that nobody knows where the almond went. Everyone gets a bowl of the pudding and you just eat and eat until someone finds the almond. But, the person who has the almond, hides it in there mouth and tries to act like they DON'T have it (so that everyone else will eat until they explode). Anyways, it's a lot of rice pudding, and you are FORCED to eat it until you want to die, because you want the prize for having the almond. Fun huh! :) Trina won, like always. LAME! AND, Trina and Aaron gave Gary his one piece pajama's. He found them like a year ago and has been dying to get some ever since. He's embarrassing, but I love him! THANKS Trina and Aaron! 

On Christmas Eve, we went up to Gary's Grandparents (Pete's Parents) house to see all of the Fam on that side. It was fun to see all of them. Then, we went back to my Mom's to celebrate with her and my sisters. We had dinner and opened presents and I ate a TON of marzipan. 

On Christmas morning, Gary and I (and Griffin) did our own little Christmas here at our house in the morning. Then, we headed up to Gary's Mom and Dad's house. We ate breakfast and got to talk to Brent, so it was awesome! After that, we headed to Orem to see my Dad and Kym. It is funny because they are renting a townhome right now until their new house is built and almost everything they own is in a storage unit. But, they had the townhome decorated so cute! We gave them the Cabo book that we made. It was fun to look through it and remember our awesome trip! Then, we made one last Christmas stop at GJ and Grandad's (Vicki's parents) house for more presents, and....more food!  

The next day, Bree and Jay made it to Salt Lake from Phoenix. On the way here, they ran into really bad weather and had to spend Christmas in KANAB! Ha ha ha! Kind of funny now. It was fun to have them here for the Holidays. Jay is MUCH more fun then someone else that used to travel home with BreeAnn. I won't mention any names, but I will say that we are SO happy to have Jay around.

We had such a great Christmas! I always get a little sappy around the holidays. It's true, just ask my family about the neighbor gift on Christmas Eve.  I love that this time of year brings out the best in people. Even the smallest of gestures feel HUGE! But, this time of year really makes me appreciate all of the wonderful things that I have been given. Gary and I both have AMAZING families who we love so much! We are so lucky to have every one of you! Thanks for all that you do for us. I am also so lucky to have such an awesome husband. Gary does SO MUCH. And he puts up with a lot too. :) He is just the BEST! 

Well, Enjoy the Christmas pics......