Glad Tidings of Christmas

We love Christmastime!  

These are some of the many activities we did this wonderful season:

This is Jono getting a massage from Coleman and Rosie danced at the Festival of Trees

We bought an extra tall tree and needed to bring a giant ladder in the house to decorate the tree.  We had to use Coleman's grabber to put the angel on top.  Jono was the only one brave enough in our family to climb to the top of the ladder, each of the kids tried and got too scared. I had to open the front door and step onto the porch to take a picture of the tree!

We had the Oettli family over for delicious Honeybaked ham sandwiches.
Bud, Rosie and Coleman loved playing with their cousin Connor!

The Summerhays siblings went to dinner (thanks for paying Grammy and Grampy) then back to our house with all the cousins to open presents from Grammy and Grampy.  The cousins loved the Amish toys and then performed "A Charlie Brown Christmas" for us.  We watched home movies then played a fun game.

Coleman was so excited to sing with the other kindergarteners in the school sing-along.  He told us excitedly, "It's my first performance!  I get to stand on the stairs!"  I went to the school one hour early to get a front row seat.

We ate lots of delicious food this month.  My favorite was Jono serving us prime rib and homemade apple pie for Sunday dinner.  Yummm!

Laura, Sara and I drove to American Fork to visit with our almost 93 year old grandma.  She still has "all her marbles" she told us proudly and she loved seeing some of her great-grand children.  She is amazing!

We served Jono's famous chili to our good friend John and Rosie ate our gingerbread house for dessert.

We then jumped in the car and headed south for Christmas in the desert.
That post is coming soon....