Family Christmas Parties!

Our Christmas was a special one! It seems like we got all we could have wished for and more. We spent the holiday with family and family and more family. Savannah survived non stop festivities with only a few minor tantrums. Olivia loved the wrapping paper and tormenting her sister!

We are truly blessed as a family and are happy to be able to spend the holidays with loved ones. Each year I am truly amazed at how wonderful our families are. I am feel so lucky to be aware of the love we share. Also, I love to reflect on the amazing gift of the birth of our Savior. It is an wonderful feeling to know that he came here on earth to save us all. We have been trying to teach Savannah about the true meaning of Christmas. She knows about Baby Jesus and loves to play with her little people nativity. Merry Christmas to all! (My cards are coming just a little late this year!!)

Our Christmas celebrating began on Friday before Christmas with a party to celebrate with nicole and her family before they left for AZ then Hawaii. My mom surprised all the kids with new blankets. She spent countless hours in the month of December working on blankets for each child! They were amazing. Savannah's is a sock monkey blanket (like her Ballet!) and Olivia's is made from Olivia fabric. It is so cute!!! So much talent and it was fun to see how much the kids love new blankets. We also did an QUICK nativity. It was a very special nativity since Savannah was the stable cat. It was so funny. She wouldn't break character at all. So our nativity had a kitty!! Jamison was also funny. He was the Wise Man with the brown skin riding the camel. (My mom has a Fontini Nativity village that has this character!) This was the funniest nativity I have ever seen! I am not sure I stopped laughing and every time I think about it I laugh! It was a fun time and were happy to spend the time with the Becks before they left us!

We spent the Saturday before christmas at eric's parent house. It was a fun time to gather and celebrate. The food was yummy and the nativity was very organized (compared to the Z's). No cats at this stable! It was fun to party with Kat and Scott and Craig. They all arrived that day so it was a great time for all!! We ate and ate and sang lots of fun carols! Thanks to Molly for organizing this shin dig!