Thursday we did laundry and started packing for our Florida trip. In the afternoon we went to see the Grand America Hotel Christmas windows. Our friends the Alexanders, Moultons and Roths came with us! It's my favorite INDOOR Christmas activity. This year the theme was Christmas in countries around the world. The giant gingerbread house is always so cool! Afterwards, we had dinner at a burger place across the street, then our family went and visited the Condies!
Friday morning the kids went to a used book exchange and cookie party at the Roth's. We have such fun neighbors! Then we headed up to Mantua for our Christmas Adam celebration! The kids played, we got things ready for dinner, then we did a couple ornament crafts. Because of the collages I made, not all the pictures are in order. The bottom picture is from breakfast the next morning.
After dinner, we had our anual talent show program. The kids sing, play an instrument, do gymnastics tricks, recite memorized passages, or just stand up there and be cute! We usually go youngest to oldest. Anna, Ellie, and Clara sang I Love to See the Temple.
McKenna and Ben each played some Christmas carols.
McKenna
After we finally got all the kids in bed, we played some games and went to bed ourselves.
We had a delicious breakfast as usual, then Aunt Lara played games with the kids to distract them while we waited to open presents. (Out of order, everyone in their matching jackets.)
All the grandkids got handmade, personalized Santa hats!
Anna didn't want to be in the pictures at all.
We opened presents, played, talked, and cried (about some of the gifts, in a good way. :)) We had leftovers for lunch, then cleaned and packed up and headed home for our own family Christmas traditions. We had a pizza dinner then baths. Next, we set out a letter and treats for Santa and his reindeer, then got in costumes for our nativity reenactment.
Bethany was a baby hog and didn't want to let us use "baby Jesus."
Christmas Morning!
The big gift this year was a horse stable with all the accessories!
This is the kids all opening their Power Ranger Dino Chargers!
Opening their books and the stable. We also got SO MUCH snow on Christmas Sunday that Bishop Dan decided to cancel church. Not very safe to drive there!
Everyone loving their Santa hats except Bethany! More sillies in the Hoddie Footie. We let Bethany sleep in a little, but she was so excited to get some new binkies, snacks, and a new book for Christmas!
We enjoyed so much being together as a family for all of Christmas Day. We did Legos, played with puzzles, the horse stable, and Dino Chargers!
That evening we had a nice Christmas dinner with ham, potatoes, veggies, fruit, and bread. We cleaned up a little and made sure we were all packed to head to the airport the next morning for our FLORIDA TRIP!!
Dan's dad was nice enough to take us at 6:30am! Unfortunately, our flight was delayed leaving an hour and a half due to "cleaning." It gave us plenty of time to eat breakfast and play in the airport.
All boarded and ready to go!
More unfortunately, because we were so delayed leaving SLC, we missed our connecting flight from Atlanta to Tampa so the airline put us up in a hotel for the night in Atlanta. Dan took an Uber to pick up some Burger King for dinner and some much needed diapers. We decided to leave our luggage at the airport to simplify things and we only packed enough diapers for the flights. The next morning we got to the airport an hour and half early, ate a ridiculously over-priced breakfast and made it to Tampa by noon!!
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Beffy is such a baby hog!
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