Christmas Festivities

This year Jeff surprised me with tickets to the Forgotten Carols!  I love the Forgotten Carols and Jeff had never seen it before.  It was fantastic as always and Jeff loved it as well!

Some of our other Christmas festivities included making a Gingerbread "village" with our good friend (old roomie) Jenni!  And if you can't tell... Jeff was in charge of the two tall roofs :)

Me, Jenni, and our beautiful creation

Jeff was going strong until about 11... ha.  And this is where he ended up for the rest of the night :)

Every Christmas that we've been married it hasn't been worth it to get a xmas tree since we usually weren't home for much of the holiday.  This year we were very excited to get our very first Christmas tree!!  (real of course :) It smelled heavenly... mmmm!  And if it looks like there aren't any ornaments on it... well that's because we only have six ornaments ha :)

We loved our cute little tree!

This year we spent Christmas at my parents house!  Even though we live only 15 minutes away now, we stayed the night on Christmas Eve and Christmas night so we could stay up late playing games.

For the month of December, Jeff chose to do reserve (be on call) for work so that he actually had a chance of having Christmas off.  Unfortunately he ended up having to fly on Christmas day, but it actually worked out just fine and definitely could've been worse.  He was only gone from 9 to 4, so we all woke up early to open presents before he left - he really only missed nap time :).

 I'm excited to try out my new sewing machine!

 Jeff's favorite present :)

 A bubble headed Chris

After presents Jeff left, many of us took naps/enjoyed our new Christmas loot, made food for dinner that night, then headed down to Mapleton to spend the night with my siblings down there.  We got to see all of the grandkids' christmas loot, and then when Jeff got there we exchanged presents, had dinner, chatted, and played games.  It's always a great time when we all get together!

  

Jeff was VERY excited to finally have the Super Mario Bros game on the wii, and was often giggling while he tried it out for the first time ha ha.  Funny boy.