Christmas

Christmas this year was at my parents' home! It was the first time in 5 years that we were ALL together, and I was so excited. We drove down on Thursday, the 22nd, and everyone else was already there by then. Friday before Christmas my mom treated all of the girls to pedicures, while the boys did who knows what at home. We had a lot of fun watching old home movies, playing games, and just hanging out each day.

Christmas morning we got up bright and early for stockings and presents! I think we were all up by about 7:30 and started about 8.

Charles, Trish, Grant, Stephanie, Sarah, Dallin & Mom

Darren, Natalie, Charles & Trish

Justin, Darren & Charles

Santa spoiled each of us, and then my dad passed out all the presents and we started the day-long process of opening...

Aaron & Dad

Dad & Justin

My parents have us open one gift at a time and go youngest to oldest. We got maybe half way through the ten of us kids before we went to church, and then finished after lunch.

Darren with his new Brian Wilson jersey! I was so excited for him to open it.

Sarah loves her new Ipod Touch

Darren loved his jersey. He only took it off for church...

Charles & Trish

Justin

Showin' off my new headband from Justin

Darren had a Giants filled Christmas! A framed photo from my parents, "The Magic Inside" DVD from Santa, jersey from me, and Brian Wilson bobblehead from my brother Dallin:

Dallin & Darren later had "The Battle of the Bobbleheads". We got Dallin a Jayson Werth bobblehead.

I don't have a picture of it, due to unfortunate mailing blunders all committed by us it didn't arrive until after Christmas, but Darren got me a Cricut Create as well! I'm so excited to play with it and do all sorts of fun things.

After everyone had finished opening gifts we had our big Christmas dinner! Unfortunately my parents don't have a table big enough to fit all 12 of us, so we were split between two tables in the kitchen. Maybe we should invest in some more dining chairs as well...

Charles & my dad. No, my dad isn't that short. His camping chair just sat super low...

Everyone else

We had a great Christmas, and were so glad Trish & Charles, and Grant & Stephanie were able to come out this year. Hopefully it won't be 5 more years until we are all together again!