Our Christmas Story!
We had an amazing Christmas season. We are so blessed to have so much family. This year we were able to spend Christmas in Beaver. We want to thank everyone for making it such a wonderful memory filled Christmas. Thank you mom for all your efforts to make such great memories. You always make sure we have a special time and we had an amazing time, thank you, thank you mom and dad for everything!
We started off with our annual Christmas party. We start with a nice dinner and then we all get to pop our poppers that contain our wonderful crowns. We all love to wear our crowns even Dad(Grandpa) looks forward to it.
After dinner we have our favorite tradition, gift from the heart. This is such a special tradition. Abi and Danielle were able to paticipate this year and they did such a wonderful job. The love we have for each other and the true spirit of family is felt so strong this night.
After gift from the heart we set out Mom's Nativity(witch I hope to someday inherit!!) This year dad was the one to pass out the peices and place them on the piano.
And last but not least we end with the white elephant gifts. As you can see Luke is the one who pulled to lucky bra!!!! Doesn't he look smashing!
This year we saved our ginger bread house making to share with everyone.
(Look real close at Jon, Oh my what a face!)
Look at Julies Santa at the door. Dominick decided he wanted to have a taste so he bit the head off and then put it back.
Everyone says how much Maggie looks like Ben and man can you see it in this picture.
Christmas Eve we all head out to the restraunt and have a party with all of the Williams family. We love this, it gives a chance to see all the family and catch up. We loved seeing Great Grandma from Cedar.
Oh how Maggie loved Aunt Megan
So I had to put this picture in. Here I was trying to take a cute picture of Megan, Jon, and Julie. Well there was Jon pulling his face and then Kev has to peak his head in. Oh well it shows what I have to put up with. I love every minute of it.
Having a little time with my baby.
On of the traditions of the Christmas Eve party is that who ever has the newest baby is Mary in Joseph in the live Nativity. Well guess who it was this year. We were so excited, although we hate to say, baby Jesus wasn't wery mild, oh well.
Christmas Eve P.J.'s
All ready for bed hoping that Santa would soon be there! I have to say the kids went right to sleep which is unusual but Abi was awake at 4:00a.m. It was ok because so was I.
Maggies spending time with Grandma before heading off to bed.
I do believe good ol' Santa made his way to Beaver Utah.
The kids gave Kev a book that he has been wanting. Later that day as Kev was reading it Ben said to him, "Your welcome dad for that book." Got to love that kid.
We had the kids draw names this year for each other. They had a great time with this and I really think they felt the joy of giving. Ben drew Abi's name and he was determined to give her a toy he wanted. We were able to find this Jersey that she has been trying to find for over a year. He was so excited to give it to her. Abi had Mac, she was searching all over the store to find the perfect gift. She found it, Mac loves art and so she bought him a binder and filled it with art supplies, he loved it! Mac had Ben and it was so cute to watch him search for just the right thing. He ended up finding a toy soilder and a stuffed animal. This is a great new tradition. I forgot to mention what great gifts Abi received from Santa. She was so excited her favorite thing was her camera.
Mac finallt received his D.S. Oh Santa is good.
Ben was so fun. He just kept daying wow Santa is so nice. He received his Batman toys and was thrilled.
Maggie was a little sleepy so she didn't up when the others did. When she did wake up she had a lot of help opening her gifts.
After we saw what Santa brought we headed up stairs to a wonderful surprise. Grandma had set all of her gifts out with stockings (my favorite part of Christmas) The kids all had such cute stocking I do believe Maggies was my favorite.
The kids helping Uncle Jon and Aunt Megan unwrap their gifts.
After gifts we headed out to the Resturaunt for our traditional Christmas breakfast. Oh how we love this tradition. We use to have it at the house but there are so many of us now that we had it at the resturaunt this year. It always taste so good. Grandpa does all the cooking.
Miss Maggie in her new Christmas clothes.
Grandma has the special touch.
The kids in their new church clothes, thank you Grandpa and Grandma.
Kev enjoying a little T.V. oh how he has missed not being able to watch football this year. He has been a good sport!
Our little big girl.
Mom had the funnest activity. She order some Owl pellets for us to disect. Now I know some of you may think that sounds yucky but it was so interesting. I was able to teach everyone what it was all about. Owl pellets are like fur balls. After the Owl eats it gags up the undigestiable things. When you disect it you can see what they have eaten. It was beyond cool to find the skull to an animal and then try to figure out what it was. (Look how intently Andrea is listening, what a good student)
Abi holding up a leg bone.
Mac thought this was the neatest thing.
Finally an activity that kept Ben in his seat for longer than ten minutes.
Maggie having a little Uncle Joe time.
Look close and you can see the skull of a bird.
Enjoying Grandpa time.
We were so excited to be able to stop and see Grandma and Grandpa in Tropic on our way home. Maggie was finally introduced to her Great Grandma and she thought she was fantastic. It made my heart swell to have my Grandma hold her.
Four generations, how blessed to have such a wonderful family.
What a wonderful surprise. For my Christmas present Kev arranged to have our friend Tami Rose come and paint a tree in my, "Giving Tree Preschool" room. I have been wanting this since we moved in. It turned out better than I could have imagined. Thank you Kev and Tami for such a great surprise.
We decided to see if Maggie could sit in her cool little chair after we arrived home. She thought it was great! We had a magical Chritmas and are filled with memories.
We started off with our annual Christmas party. We start with a nice dinner and then we all get to pop our poppers that contain our wonderful crowns. We all love to wear our crowns even Dad(Grandpa) looks forward to it.
After dinner we have our favorite tradition, gift from the heart. This is such a special tradition. Abi and Danielle were able to paticipate this year and they did such a wonderful job. The love we have for each other and the true spirit of family is felt so strong this night.
After gift from the heart we set out Mom's Nativity(witch I hope to someday inherit!!) This year dad was the one to pass out the peices and place them on the piano.
And last but not least we end with the white elephant gifts. As you can see Luke is the one who pulled to lucky bra!!!! Doesn't he look smashing!
This year we saved our ginger bread house making to share with everyone.
(Look real close at Jon, Oh my what a face!)
Look at Julies Santa at the door. Dominick decided he wanted to have a taste so he bit the head off and then put it back.
Everyone says how much Maggie looks like Ben and man can you see it in this picture.
Christmas Eve we all head out to the restraunt and have a party with all of the Williams family. We love this, it gives a chance to see all the family and catch up. We loved seeing Great Grandma from Cedar.
Oh how Maggie loved Aunt Megan
So I had to put this picture in. Here I was trying to take a cute picture of Megan, Jon, and Julie. Well there was Jon pulling his face and then Kev has to peak his head in. Oh well it shows what I have to put up with. I love every minute of it.
Having a little time with my baby.
On of the traditions of the Christmas Eve party is that who ever has the newest baby is Mary in Joseph in the live Nativity. Well guess who it was this year. We were so excited, although we hate to say, baby Jesus wasn't wery mild, oh well.
Christmas Eve P.J.'s
All ready for bed hoping that Santa would soon be there! I have to say the kids went right to sleep which is unusual but Abi was awake at 4:00a.m. It was ok because so was I.
Maggies spending time with Grandma before heading off to bed.
I do believe good ol' Santa made his way to Beaver Utah.
The kids gave Kev a book that he has been wanting. Later that day as Kev was reading it Ben said to him, "Your welcome dad for that book." Got to love that kid.
We had the kids draw names this year for each other. They had a great time with this and I really think they felt the joy of giving. Ben drew Abi's name and he was determined to give her a toy he wanted. We were able to find this Jersey that she has been trying to find for over a year. He was so excited to give it to her. Abi had Mac, she was searching all over the store to find the perfect gift. She found it, Mac loves art and so she bought him a binder and filled it with art supplies, he loved it! Mac had Ben and it was so cute to watch him search for just the right thing. He ended up finding a toy soilder and a stuffed animal. This is a great new tradition. I forgot to mention what great gifts Abi received from Santa. She was so excited her favorite thing was her camera.
Mac finallt received his D.S. Oh Santa is good.
Ben was so fun. He just kept daying wow Santa is so nice. He received his Batman toys and was thrilled.
Maggie was a little sleepy so she didn't up when the others did. When she did wake up she had a lot of help opening her gifts.
After we saw what Santa brought we headed up stairs to a wonderful surprise. Grandma had set all of her gifts out with stockings (my favorite part of Christmas) The kids all had such cute stocking I do believe Maggies was my favorite.
The kids helping Uncle Jon and Aunt Megan unwrap their gifts.
After gifts we headed out to the Resturaunt for our traditional Christmas breakfast. Oh how we love this tradition. We use to have it at the house but there are so many of us now that we had it at the resturaunt this year. It always taste so good. Grandpa does all the cooking.
Miss Maggie in her new Christmas clothes.
Grandma has the special touch.
The kids in their new church clothes, thank you Grandpa and Grandma.
Kev enjoying a little T.V. oh how he has missed not being able to watch football this year. He has been a good sport!
Our little big girl.
Mom had the funnest activity. She order some Owl pellets for us to disect. Now I know some of you may think that sounds yucky but it was so interesting. I was able to teach everyone what it was all about. Owl pellets are like fur balls. After the Owl eats it gags up the undigestiable things. When you disect it you can see what they have eaten. It was beyond cool to find the skull to an animal and then try to figure out what it was. (Look how intently Andrea is listening, what a good student)
Abi holding up a leg bone.
Mac thought this was the neatest thing.
Finally an activity that kept Ben in his seat for longer than ten minutes.
Maggie having a little Uncle Joe time.
Look close and you can see the skull of a bird.
Enjoying Grandpa time.
We were so excited to be able to stop and see Grandma and Grandpa in Tropic on our way home. Maggie was finally introduced to her Great Grandma and she thought she was fantastic. It made my heart swell to have my Grandma hold her.
Four generations, how blessed to have such a wonderful family.
What a wonderful surprise. For my Christmas present Kev arranged to have our friend Tami Rose come and paint a tree in my, "Giving Tree Preschool" room. I have been wanting this since we moved in. It turned out better than I could have imagined. Thank you Kev and Tami for such a great surprise.
We decided to see if Maggie could sit in her cool little chair after we arrived home. She thought it was great! We had a magical Chritmas and are filled with memories.
