Christmas Recap

We had some great family time this Christmas Season!

Here are the annual Christmas Eve festivities at Grandma & Grandpa's house.





Here the kids are singing "This is the Season" from the Primary songbook, which has become a bit of a tradition.

Christmas PJ's from Grandma with the Cannon cousins.

After the festivities in Salt Lake, we went home to hang our stocking by the chimney with care and settle down for a long winter's nap in our own beds. (Makes ALL the difference in the world the next day.) Our children actually slept through the night, past 7:00 in the morning!

Traditional Christmas Morning Stair Picture.

And they're off.
The leader of the pack.

Here come the rest.

The loot.

The kids have been so excited that we have a fireplace this Christmas. I have to admit, I've been kind of excited about that myself. Gifts were not over the top this year. Lots of homemade presents too. We also opened the door to our new house on Christmas morning symbolic of the best gift of the year!

The long-awaited Transformers. I bought these at Walmart a couple of weeks before Christmas and forgot to hide them before Spencer got home from school. So he was pretty mad when I pounced on him and yanked the bag out of his hands when he discovered them. Fortunately patience paid off and here they are.

Christmas breakfast combining Smart and Udall family traditions.

And English traditions with Christmas Crackers - that's where the crowns come from.
That afternoon we had the Udall side (including Grandma Udall and Uncle Dan) over for Christmas dinner. This marked the first time we've ever stayed home the whole of Christmas Day. It was VERY fun and wonderful to have the space to host everyone!

The kids got to see every single one of their cousins over Christmas break. Here is cute Norah Bowen with David in a cool picture I shamelessly stole from Laura. The John Smarts also came to visit from Idaho and stayed with us for a few days. How I managed to take no pictures, I don't understand. We were just having too much fun I guess.Aunt Lynn also stayed with us for a few days both before and after Christmas. Thanks to everyone for making the Christmas holiday such a fun one for our family. We feel so blessed to be related to such awesome people. And we definitely missed the ones we didn't get to see in person. Lots of love to all and to all a good night!