I absolutely love Christmas, by far my favorite holiday of the year!! I love getting a few days extra days off work, and spending time with family!! Other than it wasn't a white Christmas, it was a great great day!! This Christmas was a little different for me, and was a little bit hard! I have been very lucky for the past two years. Dallas and I have spent Christmas with my family, but this year it was his turn. We have decided, for now, to spend the entire day with one side of our family. We feel a lot more relaxed and are able to enjoy the day.
It started with Christmas eve at Dallas's aunt Roxanne's home. Every year she has a Christmas eve party. This is the first year I have ever been and it was a blast!! We all wore ugly sweaters...I loved that!!! Only next year we are starting the hunt for an ugly sweater earlier, to find that one and only totally yucky disgusting sweater!!
We ate a delicious dinner and then played a white elephant game, Dallas was just like a little child and got totally into the game. We all drew a number and then read a poem which had us switch our presents with another number, so you never knew what present you were going to end up with. Dallas really wanted this hat that lit up and sang a Christmas song. He tried everything in his power to trade for that hat!
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| Dallas in his ugly sweater, with his hilarious hat! |
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| Dallas and his brother Logan. Logan got a pretty princess hat that lit up and sang just like Dallas's. |
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| Okay there is a story behind my ugly sweater, I know it is a tiny bit small. We went to Savers shopping for about an hour looking for that perfect ugly sweater. I found this in the WOMENS section and didn't even think to look at the size before I bought it. I still thought it was ugly, and surprised it fit me at all. |
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| All of us with our ugly sweaters. We sadly are missing Dallas's mom, who wore an ugly vest. |
We slept at Dallas's parents house Christmas eve, which was a lot of fun! We watched Christmas Vacation before we went to sleep and Santa could visit. Dallas woke up at 3 a.m. to help Santa put all of the presents under the tree...just like how my family does it. Dallas really did a great job trying to bring some of my family traditions to our Christmas at his home. I really love that about him. Dustin and Wendi slept over as well and it was so fun to watch our niece on her very first Christmas. We woke up about 7:30ish, watched Tatum open presents and then opened some of our own. After presents everyone else came over and we ate a delicious breakfast prepared by Dave!
Christmas was special this year because it was on Sunday! I had planned on going to church, brought our church clothes and wanted to get everyone to go with us. Unfortunetly we didn't know what time his parents sacrament meeting started, but I really felt the spirit of our Savior. Even though we didn't attend church we spent an entire day with people we love so much. I love spending time with my in-laws and all of Dallas's brothers and their wives. Sometimes we may have a few bumps in the road, but we all love and get along so well. It is such an overwhelming feeling to have a great family who gives us more than they need too, everyone is so giving. We are so blessed.
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| Merry early Christmas morning. Both patiently waiting to open our presents! |
Dallas spoiled me, but there is not many pictures to prove that. I got tons of great gifts from my sweatheart, thank you thank you! He knows me all too well. Dallas got lots of things as well...He goes throughout the year not buying much for himself and he works so hard. He deserves to be spoiled. He got new headphones for his Xbox 360, movies, clothes, and best of all TICKETS TO BRIAN REGAN!!! This present is my favorite!!
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| Dallas can now ignore me while playings his game...sadly for me. |
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| Dallas's and his nephew Karbon! He is a little stinker sometimes, but also so stinkin adorable. He played kinect with us, and loves loves loves Dallas. It was so funny to watch Dallas with him, and Karbon copied everything Dallas did. |
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| Dallas and Tatum!! She is too cute!! |
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| We got Kinect sports for Christmas. All the boys played, and Karbon loved getting in on the action too! |
It was a very fun Christmas!! Although I missed my family very much!! Thank you Santa for a great husband, family, and presents!! MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!
