Christmas Day

Santa ate the Oreos and milk Whitney left out for him, but she was alarmed that she forgot to leave out carrots (as promised in her note) for the reindeer. Randy actually fed carrots to the horse next door (which seemed rather random at the time) so I think it still makes for good JuJu.

Santa complied with Whitney's wishes and covered all his gifts with blankets so as to hide them from the kids on Sunday morning.

We had ooey, gooey cinnamon rolls for breakfast on Christmas morning.

We had a great morning at church and came home feeling uplifted from the talk the bishop gave (I definitely needed to hear it) and the great music. I tortured the kids by making them pose for a self-portrait when we got home, they were dying to go in to open presents.

We all changed clothes and began the opening of the presents. The kids were definitely surprised to find the keyboard.

Landon was happy with his BYU basketball jersey.

And the cash he found in his stocking.

Landon is so sweet, he kept stopping to say thank-you and to say that just the stuff from Santa was enough!

Whitney did not share his sentiments! She likes to keep the presents coming (I'm like that too!).

We gave randy a couple new ties (he asked for some).

We love Rango!

Whitney made this calendar at school. It has all the family birthdays inside along with great illustrations for us to enjoy year round.

Landon typed up a list of 25 things he loves about me. This kid has a way of going right to my heart.

Landon made thoughtful coupons as a present for Whitney. They involve doing many of her much-disliked jobs.

Kristi sent me this awesome book full of tons of awesome good mail photos.

Landon gave me this double layered cup full of Twix.

Prior to Christmas, Whitney went through the Toys-R-Us catalog and circled everything she wanted (which was a lot), but when I asked her what one item she would want the most she chose this Journey Girl (which we all think looks just like Bella).

Randy got me a new body for camera!!! A couple pedicure gift certificates and a huge box full of my favorite Lehi Roller Mills Raspberry Muffin Mixes.

We went from not being able to find it anywhere to being very well stocked.

My parents, Lori, Robyn and her kids came over for a lunch of all our Christmas Eve leftovers.

It was tight quarters.

We had the tasty vanilla cream pie I made and the Egg Nog Christmas Cake Randy made.

Cute picture of Robyn and Olivia.

Andrew was "thrilled" to be at our house.

The gift for my parents was waiting for us when we returned home from their house on Christmas Eve so we were able to give it to them on Christmas. I was just bummed because a big part of the gift was setting it up for them and I would have liked to have done that on the day I gave it to them. (Instead I drove out there and did it on Tuesday.)

After everyone left we enjoyed a mellow afternoon of reveling in the Christmas goodness and talking to Randy's dad on the phone.

**How was your Christmas?

What was your favorite gift?**

Comment Window Tidbit: We still don't have any snow! We had a record high temperature of 53 degrees today! What is going on?!