Christmas

We invited our friends the Whitakers for Christmas eve, but unfortunately they got the stomach flu so they could not come. My family tradition is to go sledding on Christmas Eve, but there was no snow here, so we went to the Sand Dunes with our friends the Singers instead.

Carrie was very concerned when we started burying people in the sand.  She seemed more concerned when we buried the other boys than when we buried Spencer, maybe she knew Spencer is tough enough to take it, or she thought is served him right anyway.

That evening we played Bingo and did the nativity story with puppets.  We also did the nativity story one other day with the missionaries, with was really fun, but somehow we have no pictures of that.

Christmas Eve PJ's

James got a race track from Santa

Spencer got a microscope.
Carrie got a baby and a cradle- somehow no pictures.

James is Awesome

Spencer was so thoughtful and made gifts for everyone.  He made these cards for a game for James so he could look at them and laugh- and James thought they were great!

Spencer requested holiday charms.  He really wanted them and kept reminding me, but at first I had no idea what to do.  then while i was looking for something else i cam up with the idea for holiday buttons, and they were half off when we were in Idaho, i think I was most excited for that gift because it was so tricky to find, and I did it.

I am really not sure why Carrie was so excited about the cutting board that Devon gave me, but it made a really cute picture!  Apparently she loved the singing bus James gave here as well.