Merry Christmas!

I know that this is a little late, but yeah, better late than never! We had a wonderful Christmas at our house. My parents came down and stayed with us for a few days. I was feeling better so we ended up playing games and talking till all hours of the night. We had some great food, my mom brought a ton of new recipes to try and they were amazing! Christmas was great, we started some new traditions, such as eating breakfast before opening presents. This made Chad a little upset because my family tradition was to be up at 6 to open presents. This year we were up at 9 ate breakfast and got around to opening presents by 10. Creed and I loved it! It makes the day more Christ centered and focused. Sarah was way cute, we got her 3 wooden puzzles and wrapped them all separate and she opened the first one and then when it was her turn we handed her another one and she said, "OH, it is my nother puzzle present!" before she unwrapped it. I think that when she is older we may have to hide the presents from her, or at wrap them funny so she can't tell what they are! I have to say that I just loved the low keyness of it all and really enjoyed spending time with family and remembering why we were celebrating the day. We skyped with Nate and Shelli after opening all the presents and we really enjoyed being able to see them and talk to them. Skype is amazing!

On the day after Christmas we did some shopping, I needed some winter maternity clothes, and there were some great sales at Shade clothing and Old Navy, in fact I was able to buy Sarah's clothes for summer and winter without breaking the bank! It was great. The 27th was another wedding day, only for Creed's cousin this time, so it was even more low key than Kirsten's. We did play at the wedding reception and that was fun. We also danced, which was so fun. Sunday we went to a homecoming, and then played with Creed's family at the Larsen house. It was great having all of them around and getting to strengthen our relationships with them! Now we are just hanging out with the Larsen's and spending time with them. Creed has had the whole week off this week and last week and it has been great to have him around all the time. He was able to work on the Draper temple last week with his dad and Ben and he really enjoyed that. We are getting pretty excited about walking through the temple with Shirl as our guide on the 10th of January.

I forgot to mention the Christmas festivities before Christmas, the Larsen and Mitton Christmas parties. They were tons of fun and Sarah loved them! She keeps asking if we are going to go to another party. And she just made me laugh, I just asked Sarah what she wanted to do today, and her response was, "wrap presents!" Oh, I just love her!