The Big day at home.

Brian got me a video camera, it is so small and cute and I can make our videos into a DVD at some point. I took this video of the kids playing Band hero and laughed so hard I had to share it! Movies was the theme of the day, here is Brian opening a few. Spencer loved his bongo drum! Christmas day was different in a lot of ways this year. The first one being we told Joseph we act as Santa. We felt it was important for him to know that we aren't lying to him about Santa so he will believe us when we tell him of the truthfulness of the existence of our Heavenly father. He took it well, his face was so surprised and then he was very interested in helping wrap, do stockings and who was going to eat the cookies~! We also wrapped everything (Emmy was my biggest helper with that) so there weren't Santa piles.

Another difference was our Christmas party at church was a devotional and was full of songs of the season which I really enjoyed. On Christmas Eve our friends brought us a surprise dinner of enchiladas, southwest and blueberry pie, since we were going to Rah Rah's for dinner I didn't think we'd use it so I put it in the freezer. The next day I was a little sick and tired and not feeling like cooking the big meal I had planned so we pulled ou that meal and had it. Its nt what we have for Christmas usually, but it was a very nice gift and was very handy! They gave us sour cream for the enchiladas and whipped cream for the pie and almost all our kids learned the difference. Emmy told me its like salt and sugar they are both white, but are very different. It was super cute when Celia ate a spoonful of sour cream expecting whipped cream and said I don't like that! On Christmas day we came out to open presents at 7am since I sent the kids back to bed at 3am. Emmy hadn't been to sleep and I was tired so an later start on the day was nice. We took turns opening presents, everyone had so many lol, Amazon was incredibly convenient this year hehe.

The day after Christmas we had Rah Rah over and ate our Thanksgiving day meal ans Emmy called it. We had Turkey(yum, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing that I cooked in the turkey for the first time~, the Holmes cranberry sauce, veggies, and the black cherry pomegranate Christmas tree jello. It was yummy and we had a great time visiting with Rah Rah. Over all it was a lovely Christmas time and was just fine to change things up a little bit from the norm. Bri and I have plans to go out New year's eve which is unusual too cause I'm usually visiting my folks in Los Angeles. Its going to be great and hopefully the kids will have fun at home too!:)