I hope that all of you had a wonderful Christmas. John and I have.In fact we are having 3 Christmas celebrations.
We spent Christmas Eve at Mindy and Ernie's.
Earlier in the week Claire and I made Christmas cookies.
They were so good....
.... none were left to eat on Christmas Eve... oh well....no matter... we had plenty of other good treats.
While Claire and I were making cookies, EJ and Grampy wereworking in the wood shop.
Grampy helped EJ finish the stool he was making for his folks.Grampy gave EJ the wood to make this project long ago.
I was smiling to see the project was finally completed.
Good job guys.
Mindy always makes a wonderful Christmas Eve dinner.Everything was delicious.
Especially the prime rib!After dinner we had a nice family night were we read the Christmas
story from St.Luke and then EJ and Claire gave us a Christmas recital.
(I will try to post a little video at the end of this post.)
We spent the night at Mindy's and had fun getting up with the kids to find
Santa had been there and open gifts.
That was our happy 1st Christmas.
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Then we packed up our bags and headed to Utah for our second Christmas.
Traffic was terrible. It took us 7 hours just to get to Las Vegas which is
twice as long as usual..... but we survived....and.. finally got to Erin's in Utah.
Where we had our 2nd Christmas last night.I just accidentally deleted a picture of little Cal in his
full BYU football uniform and it is too hard to put it back on...
but...here he is putting on his Y helmet.
He is going to be well prepared for football season to start.
Grampy and I have our arms full of precious ones...
...and our hearts full of smiles.
Tonight we will go to temple square in Salt Lake City to see thetemple lights and then we will go to Lynell's home for
our 3rd Christmas celebration.
We were not here for Loni's Christmas dance program
but I am hoping she will give us an encore performance.
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As you can see we have much to smile about.
I have taken 473 pictures so far this season....
I promise not to post them all....just 350 or so...haha
Have a great week.
7 comments:
Wow 3 celebrations - that is awesome! We had 2 big meals - both here and I am still tired but it is a blessing to be able to do it for our families.
I so miss the days when our Jen danced like that. I hope you get to see Loni perform!
I was so busy cooking, holding Lili (who only wanted me!), waiting on my folks that I didn't get many pics this year. Looking forward to seeing yours!
Happy New Years Lura! I hope this is the best year yet! Hugs!!
Oh everything looks so wonderful. The grandchildren are just so precious and talented.
Kris and I are anxious to have our Post-Christmas Tea with you... our Christmas Gift to you that kept being put off because of my health. Let us know when you get home from Utah. We can't wait to play 'tea party' with you!!!
Love and hugs,
Jan
Three celebrations! What a fun time you must have had. We only had two but loved them both. :) blessings, marlene
Beautiful pictures! Have a wonderful time tonight. Temple Square must be an extraordinary experience at this time of year.
Looks like a wonderful time! We are finally more settled in and would love to meet up sometime. Once things settle down, lets meet for dinner!
Merry Christmas again Lura! Beautiful pictures of your family and all the fun you do. You are a wonderful mother and grandmother(and friend!) Sorry I have been absent from commenting the past few days. I've been really sick:( It passed from Cali to Ella to Aubrey to me. Boo. Its been a whole month of illness! I hope it ends with me! It messed up a birthday(Ella), Christmas(Aubrey), and New Years(Me). Super stinky.
I'm just amazed at the talent your grandkiddos have. How awesome.
And, those cookies look very tasty...but I'm going to resist trying to make some and eat them.
Happy New Year to you and the family.
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