Christmas in...uh APRIL?

Here are a few of the pictures which were lost but now are found.  We had a super fantastic Christmas.  Bailee and Canyon were able to get here early enough to join us for the Clement family Christmas party.  Zach joined us a day later.  We decorated gingerbread cookies, played a fun white elephant type game involving candy and money.  With several teenage nephews and several tweener neices you can't go wrong with money and the candy wasn't too bad either. 

Bailee had an especially fun time with the cookies as you can tell.  Hers is the one on the left Bethanie's is on the right (she had some help).

While looking for a great advent calendar idea for the Bea girl I found an idea at 320 Sycamore.  I made the rounds to all the used book stores for Christmas story books, wrapped them up, numbered them 1-25 and Bethanie would pick out the next book each night to read before bed.  Canyon joined us for Christmas eve storytime which was extra special because both little ones were able to open two gifts after the story of Jesus' birth.  They opened christmas pajamas and the Fisher-Price Nativity set.  Bethanie loved it so much she still asks to play with it.

One of the young adults from Greg's University ward joined us Christmas day.  I often wonder what she thought about all our craziness but were glad to have her in our home.  Ann, you can join us for holidays anytime.

Here's our attempt at getting us all in a picture before the fun ended.  We loved having everyone at home for Christmas and New years.  We are certainly blessed.