This Christmas has much fewer pictures than years past, but they still show all of the fun we had. Alden was old enough this year to help decorate and loved putting ornaments on the tree especially. Everyday at least one ornament found a new home :) Our elf Elmer came back to visit and Alden loved looking for him each morning. We did the usual work parties to meet coworkers and the Taylor family Christmas party plus this year we were able to visit zoo lights with Jamie and her boys. We went back to Elko for Christmas and had fun on Christmas Eve when the power went out as we were finishing getting things ready Christmas morning, good thing we had already planted our candy cane seeds. Alden got a wiggle car from Santa and all of us got spoiled from Santa and the rest of the family. When we got back we had Christmas with the Peterson family on Sunday where again family was way too generous.
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| Merry Christmas from Elmer |
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| Me and two of my favorite boys at zoo lights |
Alden was so excited to sit on the Elephant that he didn't want to get off.
Planting red hots to grow candy canes Christmas morning. Thanks Jamie for the great activity.
Opening presents Christmas morning. Alden was very good at opening presents this year. In fact he wanted to open all of mom and dad's as well :)
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| Our red hots grew! |
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| Two excited boys for their candy canes. |
It was a great holiday with less stress than years past so we were able to focus more on our Savior and why we truly have the holiday. It was also fun to teach Alden about Christ's birth and really just focus on the basics.
We actually planted mints... the red hots were North Pole fertilizer... silly girl... can't believe you got that confused. ; )
ReplyDeleteI've never planted my own candy canes... way to be organic and stuff. :)
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