Christmas

Ever since we knew we were moving up north, we planned on having Christmas with my family up here. I dreamed that I would finally be able to have a white Christmas. Unfortunately, we're having an unusually warm winter, and there was no chance of snow. And then we started realizing that schedules were conflicting and it all was getting complicated, so we decided to go down to the valley for Christmas. I'm actually really glad we did. We had a great time spending time with family on both sides. The weekend before Christmas, my mom brought Tate up so that he could stay with us for a few days. It worked out nice because I got the stomach flu while he was here, so I was able to rest and Hallie was completely entertained. I love family. On Christmas Eve Tyler worked a half day, so Tate and I finished some last minute shopping that morning and then we got ready to leave. We swayed a little from tradition with my mom and had a very relaxed Christmas Eve dinner of pizza and wings. My Aunt Sharon had come for dinner and surprised me with more baby clothes and groceries than I knew what to do with. I feel so incredibly blessed with her generosity. We opened our traditional Christmas Eve Jammie's and about died when we saw them. Onesies complete with butt flaps. We spent hours playing around in them. My brothers stuffing them with pillows and blankets and dancing around and sliding on the cars. I have not laughed that hard in forever. I am so grateful for the fun we have together. It warms my heart just thinking about it. Christmas morning went really well. Hallie got more princess toys than she knew what to do with. She also got her bike which made her really happy. After we were done we made breakfast and waited to hear from Clay in Chicago. We were able to skype with him for a while. It was so nice to see him even tho he had only been gone a little over a month. The boys of course had to stuff themselves again and show Clay their dance. After breakfast we got dressed and went over to my dads. We had a fun Christmas there and Hallie got even more toys. We were incredibly blessed this year. After spending a while with my dad and playing outside we went across the street to pico's and had dinner. Which was delicious as always. We spent time with them and then headed back to my moms. We were able to spend a couple more days down in the valley and enjoyed spending time with family. Tyler took the boys shooting while my mom took me and Hallie grocery shopping (once again, incredibly blessed and thankful). We got to have lunch with Tyler's siblings and Hallie loved playing with her cousin. It was a really great trip and one that has left me missing my family ever since we left. I am so thankful for all of them on both sides and all that they do for us and all the support they have always given us