Christmas Morning 2011

We moved from Phoenix to St George December 23rd. We actually unloaded the moving truck into our apartment on Chrismas Eve. So thankful for family who helped with so much. Especially Zak--He practically unloaded our entire apartment while waiting for my dad and Riley to get the moving truck. Then he also drove Riley's car all alone up to St George. He's the man. Also thankful that they sacrificed their Christmas eve to help us:) But we had it all planned out. After moving the boxes we headed back to our condo/timeshare and spent a whole week with the entire family. It was perfect.

Christmas Eve we let the kids open one present. It was their matching pj's. Since I have a boy and a girl, matching clothes are sometimes hard to come by. I decided to make them these instead. They thought they were great and put them on right away, and to my delight they fit:) Impossible to get a good picture of them together.
Christmas morning we all woke up before the sun. It was so fun to see the kids faces light up when they saw the glowing tree with all the present which had been hidden until then. Rhylan was the oldest kid, she really knew what was going on and was so EXCITED to see that Santa had come, and had taken a bite of the doughnut she left for him!!! The boys didn't really understand the whole Santa thing.

She got exactly what she asked Santa for, a Little Pet Shop Tree house. That seemed to be the toy of the day. The boys all wanted to play with it as well.
Gracin really loves trains right now, he go 2 wooden sets for Christmas, one was from Santa. They also got candy in their stockings.

One memory I want to remember: Rhylan had asked to go Christmas shopping for Riley and Gracin with her own money. She told me exactly what she wanted to get them before we even went to the store. She got Gracin a match box car (actually a motorcycle) and Riley a movie. I found "Get Smart" in the $5 bin. She was so excited for them to open their presents, she even wrapped them all by herself and made the tags too. She loved giving on Christmas just as much as she loved getting.



Rhylan has been a little jealous of my robe lately and asked for one for Christmas. I made her this super soft whale robe. It was a big hit.
A funny story. Jude got a sensory table filled with rocks and tractors to play. Rhylan went around and saw all that Santa brought. She paused at the rock table pretty confused and said "Rocks???!! Grammy, did you ask Santa for a bunch of rocks?!"

The rest of the morning we opened presents, played, had a wonderful breakfast, and got ready for church at 1:00. It was a perfect day. After church, we had a delicious turkey dinner and a special dessert Tiffany made.