Thursday, January 15, 2009

Christmas

Christmas this(last) year was so awesome! It was one of the most "relaxing" Christmas's that we've had in a really long time. We started off by going to Idaho Falls to Tony's mom's and spent a couple days with her. We came home Christmas Eve and made it home just in time before the big storm hit. It started snowing Christmas Eve night about 6 and didn't stop until about 10 Christmas morning. When I went to bed there was about 8 in. on the deck.
I didn't go to bed 'til 4 Christmas morning. It is tradition that we have homemade cinnamon rolls for breakfast and I volunteered to make dinner rolls for Christmas dinner at my moms. I decided that since I was in the baking mode I would just stir up a batch of the best sugar cookies in the world. To make a long story short, my cinnamon rolls raised faster than I thought they would and had dough all over the garage, my rolls didn't want to raise and I thought I was going to have to start over but they finally raised, and the sugar cookies make about 8 doz.
At 3:30 while I was waiting for the oven I heard noises from upstairs. Then I heard footsteps on the stairs. It was Than. He didn't know that I was still up and he came around the corner and about wet himself when I asked him what he was doing up. He told me, "My body said it was time to get up. " I told him the my body was telling him to go back to bed and not come back downstairs until 5:30. At 5:30 on the dot he came in and asked if it was okay to go back downstairs.
At 7 when Tony got up to see about the snow, I decided I'd get up too. When I came downstairs and looked out the window there was 22 in. on the deck. Yes, it snowed 14 in. in 3 hours. After 3 more hours of shoveling and snow blowing we had breakfast, then finally got started opening presents.
I didn't post any present pictures because you'd be here for the rest of time. No, the kids didn't get that many present, but when you have four kids you get a lot of pictures. I did post a couple videos of Than opening his main gift. It was priceless!

these two pictures are out our front door



Than was working on the deck and fell off and sunk.

yes, that is snow still falling. talk about some big flakes.


video 2 video 3
video 1

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