Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve this year we were in New Mexico. We left Tuesday night in the middle of the Eagle Mountain Blizzard and drove down to Moab to spend the night. The canyon was crappy, but we made it safely. On Wednesday, we got up and started the rest of the journey to New Mexico. It was crappy roads to Monticello, but other than that we made it to my parents at 3:30 on Wednesday. On Christmas Eve we took the train (like Trax in Utah) with the kids and they all loved it.  We had the traditional open faced sandwiches and Frappe and read the Nativity story. After that we drove around to look at Luminaries. After we got back to my parents, we put the boys to bed and played Santa to get ready for Christmas.

On the Train

The Farnsworth 5 (Grandkids) with the Train

Merry Christmas, Santa Came

Christmas Eve Pajamas

After Temple Square, we drove home trying to find something open to eat, and there was basically nothing. It was ridiculous! So we bought some snacks at Maverik and went home to open Christmas Eve pajamas.  I tied fleece blankets for the boys this year too and gave Gavin and Greyson slippers.  Garett wasn't having any of it.  He was tired and hungry!

Christmas Eve (Lights on Temple Square)

This year for Christmas Eve, Mike's sister Michelle came into town and wasn't staying for very long.  So Mike wanted to spend some time with her while she was here.  They wanted to go to Temple Square to see the lights so we meet them up there.  It was a nice night and we had a lot of fun together as a family and seeing family.

We got so many comments about the boys hats.  The day after Thanksgiving we went to the BX up at Hill Air Force Base and Mike found these animal hats with mittens attached to the hats.  Gavin has a Dalmatian Dog hat, Greyson has a Tiger and Garett has a Moose.  Everyone that sees them loves them, and the boys love them too!

Christmas

This is going to be a boring post - I feel like the only time I blog is when I have a picture to go with it, but this Christmas, I was sick, so really didn't get a lot of pictures.

Christmas Eve, I woke up sick and we made breakfast, I made the fruit salad and potatoes we were to bring for the Christmas Dinner and we got ready and headed up to Heber City to spend the day with Mary (MIL), Kurt and the kids.  Chuck and Lori joined us later.  We had a great day watching Christmas movies, catching up with each other, cooking and opening presents.  The more the day progressed, the worse I felt and we finally headed home around 9:30 because the kids were super cranky.

Luckily we had already put the big present together and wrapped all the other presents so Santa just needed to arrange the presents under the tree when we got home and we headed to bed.  They boys slept in until 7:30 on Christmas Morning and then we headed out to the living room to open Presents.  Greyson was super cranky and wanted to play with every single present he opened instead of stopping and opening another, so by the end, we were opening them for him and just showing him while he cried for us to put his presents together.  Gavin loved finding his name on all his presents and opening each one of them.  By the end, Mike had asked if he got everything he wanted and he said yes.  He has been mentioning since September that he wanted a Jeep for Christmas.  Mike asked about the Jeep and Gavin got a little sad and said "Why didn't Santa bring my Jeep?" And Mike said "You will have to ask for it again next year bud" and Gavin said ok, and just went back to playing.  Finally Mike told him to go into the Dining Room and pull the blankets off and there was his Jeep. He was freaking out, so excited!

Mike got a Helicopter which he broke the next day and is now trying to find parts to fix it.  I am super excited for my new Crock Pot and we have already used it and it works great!  Our old one was super fast at cooking and is almost 9 years old, so it was time for an upgrade.

We had a great Christmas and we were spoiled rotten!  We hope you had a great Christmas too!

Gavin's gingerbread house from Preschool

Gavin in Christmas Eve PJs

Greyson in the Jeep and in Christmas Eve PJs

Gavin in the Jeep

Putting together the Jeep for the Boys

George our Elf on the Shelf drinking green milk in the fridge

Creating our Ginger Bread Men

The boys on Christmas Morning out with the Jeep

All the cookies I made for Neighborhood Gifts

Gavin's Vacuum he got for Christmas

More Ginger Bread Men making

A Greyson track he got for Christmas

Ginger Bread Making

Our final Ginger Bread Men

Christmas Eve

This year Christmas Eve was pretty chill at our house...And I LOVED IT!  Mike had to work half a day and Gavin, Greyson and I hung out at home relaxing and watching movies.  I had to go to Walmart because we decided last minute to do Neighbor gifts, so I had to get stuff for that.  Later we delievered the Neighbor gifts, ate lots of candy and sweets that people had brought to us and watched more movies.  We then had the boys unwrap their Christmas Jammies and blanket (I decided this year to "make" a fleece blanket for the boys because they always want a blanket for the living room) gave the boys baths and then we were relaxing in our jammies with our blankets.  Stay tuned for the Santa post!

Wrapping Paper

This Year, Greyson was more interested in the wrapping paper (and ripping it all up) then the presents he was getting out of the wrapping paper!

Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve we went up to Mike's Mother's boyfriend's house. We ate a good Italian dinner and Santa even made an appearance! Gavin was THRILLED! He ran right up behind him and gave his legs a big hug. Santa handed out Christmas presents to the kids. Gavin & Greyson got their Christmas Eve pajamas! It was a lot of fun!

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve this year was really LOW KEY for us. I kind of liked it. I woke up really early to get our grocery shopping done before the crowds started in and then spent the day making Banana Bread and Caramelized Cinnamon Almonds, and watching Christmas Movies. YUM! Mike had to work but got home about 6 and we ate a Party Platter with Meats, Cheeses and Crackers. We then opened up our Christmas Pajamas and gave Gavin a bath to get ready for bed. We put Gavin to bed late that night in hopes that we could sleep in a little bit on Christmas Morning! Stay tuned for more Christmas to come...

Christmas Eve Pajamas!