Christmas 2012

Well we had a wonderful Christmas this year. We were able to start our celebrations a little early on the Friday before Christmas. We headed down to my parents house for a Christmas party since everyone was going to be home. We had a great time. The kids played together and then did a gift exchange. Boston and Preston got some fun Batman walkie talkies from a couple of the Winter's girls (sorry I am not quite sure which two). We played some fun games and enjoyed spending time with everyone there together. It was especially fun to have Marcus, Maria and Braxtyn home. The next day on Saturday my niece, Rylee, was baptized. We are so proud of her. She is such a great cousin to Boston and Preston. Rylee we love you. I don't know how but I did not get a single picture of that weekend. After that we headed back up to Provo to the Knudsen's to spend Christmas with them. We were so excited to have Teagen, Chaz, and Uncle Steve there. We got to spend a lot of great time with everybody. Like usual we were all spoiled. Here are some pictures. We let the cousins exchange gifts on Christmas Eve. Somehow I only got a picture of Preston with his but Teagen, Chaz and Uncle Sean gave them these super soft Giants blankets. We thought maybe these would take the place of their baby blankets but no such luck yet. They do love these though and they are so super soft to cuddle up with.

The Christmas tree before the destruction began

The kids in front of the tree.

Preston and Boston opening the Beyblades.

Boston opening his main present from Santa. Skylanders for the Wii.

Preston opening his present from Santa.

Where is it?

Another thing to unwrap.

Finally. Mario 3D Land for the 3DS.

This was one of the present from mommy and daddy which they both got but again only a picture of Preston. They had seen these little dogs one day when I had gone into Maurices to buy some clothes. They wanted them so bad that they were willing to pay their own money for them. I told them that if they wanted them they had to give two of the stuffed animals they already had to the DI. Well they both came home and thought about it and cried that they could not get rid of any of their animals. So I was nice and did it for them for Christmas. They were so surprised.

Now their main gift together from Santa.

Which they have not been able to use since it has looked like this plus some more since Christmas. One of these days hopefully the snow will melt and we can play a little basketball. Luckily we have been able to go over to the church to play in the gym until it warms up again.

These are just some of the things that they got for Christmas. They were so spoiled by Grandma and Grandpa Pace, Grandma Mac, Grandma and Grandpa Knudsen, Uncle Steve and Uncle Paul. We had such a wonderful Christmas. It was so nice to spend time with our families. We are so blessed and thankful for all that we have. We hope that all our friends and family members we were unable to see or talk to had a very Merry Christmas.