Christmas 2011

FINALLY!!!!!  I have time to quickly add pictures from our Christmas.  As usual, we kept with our tradition of spending Christmas Eve with my family having our Italian dinner and then opening up presents from Grandma's Chris and Shauna.  We had such a fun time!!!  We just ate and ate and ate and then had dessert and then hoped  that we wouldn't pop :)  

Christmas morning was wonderful.  We had a lazy morning getting up and opening up the presents that Santa brought for the boys.  They were completely spoiled!!!  

The spread!!!!  Look at all that wonderful food.

White clam sauce and macaroni.    

Red sauce with the few sausages and the lone meatball  that was left after we dug in.

Halibut and Calamari.  It just wouldn't be Christmas  without any of this.

Our Chef Chrissy!!!!

Grandma Sauna and Kelton.  I just love this picture of them together.

KP duty :)  Unfortunately we couldn't finish because it was time to open presents.

Kenny with his most coveted present EVER!  He has always wanted an Eagles jersey with his name on it and the year he was born.  Something is starting to smell a little stinky and it isn't the fish.

The boys got matching Ute jackets.  They love all of their Utah  gear.  Wonder what they would do if they ever opened up something that was BYU? hmmmm.

My boys in their jersey's...all of their teams played over Christmas weekend and they all won.  Does it get any better?

Oh My! What could this be?

A Kindle!!!!! Holy something!  I can't believe I got a Kindle.

T got his orange blanket that he wanted.  First the jersey then the Kindle and now the blanket...spoiled!!!  Now I know  it is not the fish.  :)

When we got home we gave Maggie her present from her "Aunt Maggie".  It was a hit!

Oh no, the stockings.  Santa left so much that they were bulging and he had to put a present on top of the stocking holders.

T examining the first few contents of his stocking.  Soon he would find out that it was full of  underwear and socks.

Kelton starting with the first few pieces of candy that he had before he found his socks and underwear.  It is amazing how Santa knows what you need.

Oh no!  Santa broke one of the rules of our home...no war video games.  Somehow Kelton ended up with 2 call of duty games.  So need to have a talk with Santa before next year.

Taylor got his Transformer that he wanted that is also a NASCAR.  I think the stink followed us home from Grandma's.  

Even after opening her stocking, Maggie's favorite present was the one she got from her Aunt Maggie.  So stinkin cute!

Kelton also got a model from Santa and he had to build it that morning.

Taylor got more transformer's and had them out and transformed before breakfast was even thought of.

Later we attended Church and were blessed by the Christmas program that the Choir performed for us.  We only went to church for one hour but it was so uplifting to be able to attend Church and keep that focus on Christ and all that he did for us because he was born.  Being able to attend Church on Christmas was amazing.  I will remember how we tried and succeeded a little more this year to remember Christ this year while we were blessed by his love.

We hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas as well and were able to feel the love of our Savior at this important time.