Christmas

Christmas morning is such a magical time. There's something so fun about going to bed the night before with nothing under the tree and then waking up with Christmas. We slept over at the Brown home on Christmas Eve only because every single member of my family was there this year. So Christmas for sixteen people was intense and fun. The best part was watching fuzzy-eyed little nephews wake up and realize Santa came....

All people were very excited about the gifts they received (okay, some genuinely, some not so much...)

And remember those squishies we made? They were a hit!




Even with so many people and all the chaos it was a really fun Christmas morning with the fam.






After the Browns we went back to our apartment for Christmas afternoon so we could have a little time together to open our own presents and enjoy our first Christmas being married.




It's so easy to shop for a seminary teacher: ties and church books and he's a happy man. (We also got really creative with our wrapping jobs... it's not enough to just give a gift card, it's gotta be taped to the bottom of an ice cream bucket with bags and socks on top of it. Don't worry he was just as bad with me. One of my gifts had marbles in the box-- what did he get me that rolls?-- and another one had heavy bricks at the bottom).

Another great moment was when we realized we gave each other the same board game. Awesome. But best of all was that Adam gave me a giant canvas! I had been telling him I wanted to paint something for a blank wall in our dining room so he bought me this huge great canvas so I can. I'm so excited.

In the evening we hit both Grandpa's houses. We started at my Grandpa McPhie's and stayed long enough to play the White Elephant game with them but left early enough in the game that we snuck out with "Salt Lake City Monopoly"! What a steal!!

And finally we ended the night by going up to Grandpa Hock's (where we got to play yet another white elephant game! This time we made out with a box of pennies-- sweet! Vacation money here we come!).

The whole Christmas holiday was so wonderful and Adam and I just felt so blessed to have such amazing families and now this year to be part of each other's families. We are so happy.