Happy Christmas 2011

And before we begin....a little side note, happy 33rd birthday to me! Here I am opening my birthday gifts before we move onto bigger and better things. Thanks to everyone for the cards, texts, phone calls, gifts. It was a great day! Thanks to a wonderful hubby who took care of all the kids all day while I was at work and for making me one of my favorite home cooked meals! He always does a great job of making me feel loved and special. Thanks to Mom for always wrapping my presents in birthday paper even though I know it's a pain. Thanks to Jim and Norma for coming down to our house to celebrate with me! I have the best family!


Here are the girls opening their p.j.'s on Christmas eve! They always love getting new p.j.'s from the sandman!


Everything is ready to go! Me and James got to bed at a reasonable hour and we weren't too tired in the morning. They tried waking up at 3 am again, but we said no way and put them back to bed. They slept until 8.



Christmas morning was great! We let them open 1 present and see what Santa left in their stockings, then we got ready for church. Church was at 10, then we came home and changed our clothes and started the festivities. It was so nice. The girls were so cute about everything. They were full of hugs and kisses and thank you's all morning! What a great day! It was nice to have church on Christmas! We felt so happy to go and listen to the choir and and listen to our stake president talk about a boy who saved up all his money and bought a coat for a little boy in his class who needed one. It was such a great experience to take our girls and have them listen and behave at church! I was tearing up just thinking about the love of our Savior and how grateful I am for this season to celebrate his birth! It's sometimes hard to almost share a birthday with this special day, because I want to be selfish and have a day to myself, but in a way, it makes me feel closer to Him, as well. Anyway, it really was a beautiful day and we hope you all had a wonderful Christmas too!