christmas

this year we started off december having the sanders side christmas with food, used white elephant and presents. we didn't do much to celebrate the holidays, as in seeing much christmas lights. we did go to a snow day at mtns edge park, the kids got to slide down the lil slope on their sleds and they had vendors coloring hoola hoops and things for the kids.w We also went to the ward christmas party, where matix decided he was very afraid of santa.amber and jared came down the week before to celebrate. we went to my parents christmas eve, had taco salad.. we choose a theme every year so its not the same ol turkey and potatoes. we swaped gifts. we drew crystal and ryans name and sheree and adam had ours. we skyped dale wendy and crystal. crystal gave us the great news that they are expecting a lil one in aug. went home to bed. brandon and i woke up at 6:30 christmas morning but waited till 7:30 to wake matix. it still took him about 15 min to wake up. he loves sleeping almost as much as his mommy. we had him check out his stocking and open all his presents but saved his balls for last since we knew hed be over it and just ready to play with those right away. after playing catch for a minute we put his new toy story movie on and opened ours. bbret and tammy came over to see matixs toys and we headed over there to check out brets new cotton candy machine.. which is awesome. we went to church, just one hour came home gma and gpa tippetts and trent adri came over. bret shared a christmas book with us which they also gave us each a copy. we ate and opened presents. us kids wrote our testimonies down and put them in a new set of scriptures we bought margene, which felt great to all of us. we each chose someone to help tthis christmas instead of drawing names, which was better than any gift we could have gotten. we then shared our experience with the family.