Our Christmas Travels

We left Idaho the Saturday before Christmas and stopped off in Bountiful, Utah for the Blosch Christmas party (my dad’s family). The food was good and so was the entertainment. They had a microphone hooked up and some of the kids were singing Christmas songs. Alex got in line to sing and when it was her turn, she stated her name and gave a stirring rendition of “twinkle, twinkle little star” in front of 50 people. It was especially amusing, because she decided to do it all on her own without any prompting. After the party, we headed to my mom’s so Ryan could watch BYU’s bowl game. He was stressing for most of the game, but jumped around like a lunatic when they won.

Sunday was just a relaxing Sunday before all the fun started. (No comment on my most embarrassing moment that happened at church.)

On Christmas Eve we went to Orem for Ryan’s family dinner. I always look forward to his family’s Christmas Eve dinner, complete with English Christmas Poppers and party hats. After dinner, the kids acted out the Luke Chapter 2 with our oldest nephew Andrew being the donkey. Before Ryan and I got married. Ry was the donkey that Mary rode in on. After singing some songs and listening to Grandpa Stout’s poem the kids opened cousin gifts and presents from their Great Grandma Henderson from Scotland.

Once we got the kids down for the night, the fun continued. We wrapped all the presents and stuffed the stockings and put everything under the tree.

Christmas morning – Wow! The kids got everything they wanted and more. I feel like we might have gone a little overboard, but that’s the fun of Christmas right?
A quick list of the kid’s gifts
Alex
Cinderella castle with Cinderella doll and prince
Island Princess Barbie and prince with her own dress up dress and DVD
Dress up shoes
Light Sketcher
Minnie Mouse
Puppy in a carrying bag (thanks Grandma Stout)
A few other small things…
Connor
Basketball hoop
Assorted balls
Big Lego blocks
Mickey Mouse
Farm animals (thanks Grandma Jan)

All in all it was a great Christmas. We stayed in Utah until Thursday. Now that we’re home reality has hit. Where I’m I going to put all this toys? Most of them are still up in the front room in boxes. I’ll get it figured out sooner or later.

I have added a few pictures of our Christmas week starting off with the Sanford’s (Stout’s) Christmas Eve dinner and then Christmas morning.









The bottom picture is not a very good family picture, but is was the best we could do right before church. Dec.23, 2007