Merry Christmas!

What a wonderful christmas time! On christmas eve we always go to Alans Grandmas' house for a little program. It was very nice to be there with the entire family. We had dinner a family movie, and then a little program with songs and talks, it was very nice. Then Alan and I went back to 0ur house and spent some time with my mom and dad and brother and sister. In the morning Alan and I left to go to his dad's house to open presents and have breakfast. Alan had Ronnelle's name this year for our family gift exchange. Alan got her the Keith Urban CD and Hair rollers. And I had Jessica...... I got her a Horse game and a exercise stepper.Then Ronnelle had me and got me some lotions and pj s and a ZEBRA hair dryer!!

Jaci had Alan and got him a money sorter. Everytime we go to Khols he see it and says he wants it so she got it for him :)
Alan's Dad and Cindy got each of us a WII for christmas with a WII fit! The little grandkids had a gift exchange between them... I love watching kids open presents... They are so excited about everything :)



After we were done opening presents with Alan's family we went back to our house to open presents with my family. My mom and dad and brother and sister and my sister and her husband and their two kids. We had such a fun time opening presents. Alan got me a nice digital camera that zooms in 12X and I got him a GPS system.

Just a few more pictures of my family opening their presents

In all, Christmas time is a wonderful time that we are able to spend with our families. It's a great time to also celebrate the Birth of our Savior. We were able to re-inact the nativity scene many times this year which is a great reminder of our Savior.

ALL ABOARD the POLAR EXPRESS!!

We went on the Polar Express to the North Pole. It was a nice vacation to get away and have nice weather. It was cold enought to wear a jacket, but it wasn't too cold. We went with Alan's family, there were 21 of us :)

We were waiting for the train to get to the station

When the train arrived we all aboarded it, and headed toward the north pole. As soon as you get on you get a chocolate chip cookie, then you get hot chocolate. Then they begin to read the book, and you sit and listen and one of Santa's elfs shows you the pictures. Then you look at lights outside and then you finally reach the north pole and Santa is there! He gets on the train and hands all the little ones a bell. As you return you sing songs. What was really cool is its really relaxing and you can move around the train, you don't have to just sit in your seats the entire time. It was a fun trip!!

Alan and I on the train!!

This was a tree that was in our hotel. It was tall and decorated very nice, so we had to take a picture infront of it :)

The next morning we woke up and went to a Deer Farm. We were able to feed and pet deer. It was really cool, I had never been so close to a deer. This was a tractor that was infront of the deer farm, I had to get a picture with Alan on it. He is sooo cute :)
We fed the Deer!

Thanksgiving

WOW.... I can't believe that Thanksgiving has come and gone and now we are getting ready for Christmas. This year for Thanksgiving we went to my parents house in Monticello, Utah. My parents are in the process of moving there and wanted us to come there for thanksgiving and help with the house and to have thanksgiving together. So Alan and I decided we would go there this year. We left on wednesday after work and it takes 6 hours to get there. We got to my parents about 11 o'clock pm just in time to go to bed :) We woke up in the morning and went to my parents house they are building and work on it until it was time to get ready to eat thanksgiving. It was sooo cold! The wind was blowing and it actually snowed on us. On thanksgiving night we went to my parents friend's restaurant for thanksgiving. Their friend cooked all the food and we showed up to eat it! I have never had a thanksgiving in a restaurant but it was pretty fun and you didn't have to clean up afterward. We had a really fun time being with my family. I only had one sister and her husband and their two kids not be able to come, but other than that we were all there :)