Christmas Fun

We had a nice Christmas. Danny found Santa at the Grocery store one night so he brought the 3 youngest kids in to see him. Their requests were jeans(Ashley), a teddy bear(Tyler), and a car(Camden). I'm glad that they got to see Santa because somehow it had gotten to December 22nd without me taking them to see Santa this year.

On Christmas Eve, the kids got new jammies and we said goodbye to Peter, our Elf on the Shelf (he is on the star of the tree).

The kids were good to us on Christmas morning and let us sleep according to the rules we established years ago. Alyssa was up at 4:30, woke Ashley around 4:45, and they both woke Tyler around 6. Camden was the last to wake up around 7. I guess next year we need to establish rules about them waking each other up, too. We got our traditional picture on the stairs before they went down to see the presents.

Here they are in front of the loot before we started opening the gifts. By the way, Santa did a good job bringing them their requests, except for Tyler. He got a hot wheels track instead of a teddy bear. He was sad at first until he realized how cool the track was.

After Christmas, the kids got some time with some of their California Wheeler cousins. We didn't take a lot of pictures with them, but we did have lots of fun. We did take a picture in front of the pool after swimming together at the Provo Rec Center.

We also enjoyed having Danny home with us for almost 2 weeks straight after having him work almost nonstop for 3 weeks straight at the beginning of the month.