Christmas 2011

We had a great Christmas with all the kids (and 1 grandchild- Calen) here for Christmas morning. Dad made a great breakfast as usual with everything from sausage and eggs, to french toast and hashbrowns, complete with juice of every kind. It's something everyone looks forward to. This year Chase was in the kitchen as the DAD's made a wonderful breakfast. Then off to church for an hour of music and messages of Christ. When we got home we had a Christmas story "The Other Wise Man" read by mom (Heather had to finish though) followed by singing every Christmas song in the church song book. We wondered if we would ever get through them all. But we did, and then we opened presents and visited and had fun being together. It was great to have Ryan and Kerri here for their first Christmas together. Tiffany Opened her mission call on Christmas Eve when everyone was here to receive the great news. She was called to go to the Ukraine Donetsk Mission. She reports to the Provo MTC on March 14 2012. After a wonderful morning Christmas day, we all went outside to enjoy the outdoors. We all went down to the river (just around the corner from home) and slid, ran, skated, and danced on the frozen river. We took pictures and had a fun snowball fight. Great memory for all.