Merry Christmas!!

We had a wonderful Christmas this year and have plenty more still to come.   We are going to head down to southeast Idaho to spend a week with family.  But this was the first year we have spent Christmas at our own home.  It was really nice.  We went to a friends house and had a really nice Christmas eve dinner and then we came home to some pj's on our front porch.  That elf found us once again this year and the kids were excited to get to open a present before we headed to bed. 

Then we were up bright and early Christmas morning (5am) to open presents.  Santa found us, and the kids and Daniel and I all got spoiled, as always!  We spent the day just lazily laying around and playing with all our new presents.  It was really nice not to have to pack up and go visit all of our family on Christmas day.  Then in the evening we went over to another friends house and got to join in their traditional Christmas crab feast.  It was really good and really fun and so nice to leave my MESSY house and enjoy their beautiful home.  

So now today I have a huge mess to clean and lots of stuff to pack up, but it was all worth it and we had a wonderful Christmas! 

Finally an update!

Sorry I have been really lazy lately when it comes to blogging.  I feel like nothing new has been happening here, so I didn't want to just post to post.  But I have been getting many people complaining from home that I haven't posted anything.  So here is my post about nothing.  We are all wrapped and ready for Christmas here.  Ali is getting spoiled one more time.  Every year is the same for us.  We start buying in November and just keep buying and buying.  I tease that I am on round 3 of Christmas.  Round one was on all the after Thanksgiving Day sales that you just can't pass up but don't really NEED(which we spent way too much), round 2 was all the thoughtful gifts that we wanted to surprise each other with, and then round 3 is the last minute shopping for stuff we tell each other that we really wanted and haven't bought yet.  So we are all spoiled and are getting way too much for Christmas!    

I went to the bathroom this morning and came out to find Grant had helped himself to a little snack.  He has been pretty good not to get into my cupboards that much, but today I guess he was hungry.  He got into my cupboard, dumped out the loaf of bread, found some Tupperware and a spoon and was having a hay day.   I figured he had already made the mess so I let him play and eat for a little bit.  I can't get him to eat lately, so I didn't stop him.  In this picture he was making the sign for "more".  I don't know what he wanted more of, maybe a drink to wash it down.