Tuesday, December 30, 2008

A Wonderful Christmas!

Since Rylie was about a year old, we have started a tradition of going to Ryan's mom and dad's for Christmas Eve, spending Christmas Morning at our house, and then going to my mom and dad's sometime Christmas Day. It makes for a very crazy couple of days, but we are so blessed to have family so close and to be able to spend the holidays with both!

Christmas Eve at Grandma Shirley's.

On Christmas Eve, Santa usually comes to make sure everyone is still being good and to double check on any last minute details before the big night. He also tells everyone to make sure they go to bed real early. (Yeah, Right!)


Rylie with Santa.


Sydnie with Santa. This is the first year that we had "Happy Faces" the whole time. Usually they are both a little hesitant and one of them ends of crying when they have to sit on his lap. They both did very well this year!!


Christmas Morning at our house!

The tree before all the craziness! Ryan eventually had to wake the girls up at 8 o'clock that morning. They were out cold, from the late night.







Christmas Day at Grandma Joy's

Once we had opened all of our Christmas at our house we packed things up and headed for Idaho.


Rylie and Sydnie with Papa G. (Waiting very patiently for Uncle Jeff and Aunt Kristin to come.)



Avery and Sydnie opening gifts from Grandma and Grandpa.


Ryan just loves this time of year...can you tell?


Alexa and Rylie showing off pajamas that Grandma Joy made for them.

We spent two days in Idaho. On the last day that we were there, Papa G got his Razor out and pulled the girls around on the sleds. They loved it!


Papa G and Sydnie waiting to go for another ride.


Rylie is in the sled waiting to go. She could spend all day being pulled around. Ryan is on one of Courtney and Nate's Snowmobiles. Maybe he should of asked Santa for one of those instead of a 4-wheeler.


Off they go, down the road!

While we were gone, the weather reports said that it had snowed quite a bit in Logan. I was a little nervous to come home and see what the drive way looked like. However, when we got home, our wonderful neighbors had cleaned the drive way out. We have such awesome neighbors!! When I finally found out which neighbors it was for sure, she said that there was about a foot of snow that had come on Friday, plus whatever was drifted across the driveway! We definitely had a Wonderful, White Christmas.

4 comments:

Joel's Family said...

So glad you had a wonderful Christmas. It was definately a WHITE one. Glad to see Santa made his rounds to even see your cute girls. Hope you are staying warm with this yucky weather.

The Ball Family said...

What a great Christmas! You're girls are so cute.

Susanna said...

Your girls have the sweetest smiles. I think it is so funny that kids love Santa so much and yet they are so afraid to sit on his lap. What a fun Christmas!

Oh, I just thought I'd tell you - lately Liam has been coming up to me and saying "Mom, Miss Kim loves me." And I say,"Does she?" and he says "Yep, she totally loves me."
And he totally loves you too!

Deb said...

Cute Christmas girls!
That is great that you can pack it all in!
Was Ryan a good boy? Did Santa bring a 4-wheeler?