Merry Christmas!!!

This year we had a small Christmas on the day of with just Dad, Mom and I. We did go out and visit David and Amy's families at their homes in the morning to see what Santa brought everyone. Then we chilled the rest of the day at home and had a nice dinner with the Crooks and Wetzels. Then Sunday morning we had a Pajama Breakfast with the family! Here are some random pictures from the day. It was fun getting together with everyone in their new PJ's.

Here is the family picture from the day. We did miss Ryan and Alisa but it couldn't be helped as they were in Washington with their new baby! Owen Scott Harrison was born December 24, 2009!!! Congratulations to the new little Harrison family!

Candlelight Christmas

Last week I went with Diane to This Is The Place Heritage Park for their Candlelight Christmas. They put Christmas lights on the houses and in each house they had different things going on. They had a puppet show, crafts, printing of the first Christmas card, stories about the decorations, an elf village and you could write a letter to Father Christmas. Here are a few things that I learned from the night it was the British Royal Family that first came up with the idea of Christmas cards and had them printed. It used to take two days to go from Salt Lake City to Provo and people would have to stop at a half-way house in Draper for $1 a night. (That just seems crazy to me since now it takes me 45 minutes to go to Salt Lake City from Provo.) Before the mail system was really in place children would write letters to Father Christmas and then they would burn them and the smoke and ash would carry to the North Pole to Father Christmas. Have you ever heard about the Christmas Spider? I had never heard the story before, if you want to read it go here. I didn't get a lot of pictures but her is what I have from the night. It was a lot of fun to step back in time and learn new things.

I'm back!

Hello all! I know that it's been A LONG time since I've blogged but I am back (well, I am going to try to be back.) I decided to start from today and go backwards, I am going to try to put the correct dates...so you will need to keep scrolling down to see the posts. Oh and...HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!

Snow, Snow, Snow, Snow!!!!

Welcome Winter (I guess...) I really do think that snow is beautiful when you can be at home watching it snow from the comforts of your warm house. Too bad that wasn't exactly the case this morning with waking up to our first measurable "powder". I took some pictures to document the occasion. Last night I watched the end of "White Christmas" so all I could think of this morning when I saw all the snow was the song "Snow, Snow, Snow, Snow!" I'm not going to lie...now it officially feels like Christmas that everything is white. I can't wait to see the Christmas lights with the snow!!!!