Christmas 2013

I am still trying to get use to writing 2013 on my checks....and what do you know....it is now OVER! Christmas comes and goes SO FAST every year! It is seriously MY FAVORITE TIME OF THE YEAR! I would listen to Christmas music for months before if Ryan would let me! I love the sounds, sights, smells and even the shopping.  I just love it all.  I love teaching my children about the birth and life of the Savior and feeling those feelings of love so strongly.  What an amazing time of year!

 It doesn't look like many presents under the tree this year because most were small, but it was one of our favorite years! We surprised the kids this year with some fun gifts that they had NO IDEA they were getting.  It is probably their favorite Christmas by far!

 Stockings, our new wedge gym mat and the boys ski's .  They have already hit the ski slopes and LOVE having ski's of their very own!

 This was Dallin's surprise that he wasn't expecting.  He just finished hunters safety and his dad decided he needed a hunting gun.  He can't wait to shoot it.  We are just hoping it doesn't knock him on his butt when he does. ;)

 Oakley got surprised with a laptop.  JUST WHAT SHE NEEDED! With her honors classes and then starting high school in the fall we decided this was something she will definitely use! Where she is teaching dance too it will come in handy for that as well.  She was so excited! She never expected a laptop to be under the tree!

 And the two little's Rhett and Laiklie got the ipods they have been dying to get for a few years now! They were SO EXCITED!  Laiklie kept saying, "IS IT REAL?" This has been their favorite present and I am actually kind of hoping the excitement of it wears off as they go back to school.  I hate them sitting on the couch playing games for hours at a time! Not my idea of fun!! 

 Rhett and Laiklie also got furby's from Santa.  We still aren't quite sure about how these fuzzy little guys work.  Laiklie's keeps changing from a girls voice to a boys.  Weird! :) They love them though.

Ski goggles to go with the ski's! Funny story about the goggles....I bought them a week or so before Christmas, but they were the only things I bought that day, so I just put them SOMEWHERE instead of stashing them with the other gifts.  Christmas Eve while the kids were at grandma's party we came home to wrap presents and I looked EVERYWHERE for where I stuck the goggles.  I never could find them so I ended up running back to town Christmas Eve morning to grab another pair of goggles.  I still have not found the original ones I bought.  Who knows where I put them?!!

This was a GREAT Christmas! They kids got all they wanted PLUS more!  Other than another round of the stomach flu (I think it just comes to our house every year with Christmas) we had a GREAT 2 week vacation with family, holidays, game playing, skiing, sledding and everything else that comes with winter/holidays!  Such a great way to finish a great year!  We are SO VERY BLESSED!