Christmas 2010

Santa arrived one day early at our house since we were heading to SLC on Christmas Eve. The kids were so excited to see what Santa left under the tree. It was fun to see their exciting faces. Sadly, it takes you months to get everything together and organized and the presents were opened in about 20 minutes. The funny thing is we let the kids open their gifts and then while we were finishing up packing they opened our gifts for us. Isaac made out with more Star Wars legos and a new pirate cove to go with his pirate ship that Santa brought last year. The fun toy was a remote control car that flips over and can drive on both sides.

Little Miss Sarah received a shopping cart and play food and plates. She LOVES pushing her baby doll around in the cart. She is going to be a good mommy one day! They both received several books as we do a lot of reading time at our house.

Gary and I purchased a shiatsu massage chair and it has been wonderful!!! It feels so nice to just sit and relax.

After breakfast we packed everyone up and headed to Pasco. The kids did great on the airplane and Grandpa Oaks was able to pick us up just in time for the Oaks Christmas Eve celebration. It was so nice to see everyone and Isaac was so happy to see his cousins. After fun games and opening gifts we headed to my parents house. Once again Isaac was so happy to see Clara. I love how they are such good buddies.

Christmas day was filled with more family time between Gary's family and mine. It was nice and relaxing.
We had a lot of fun hanging out with everyone and I hate that our vacations go by so quickly. It was fun to see my cousins, Kristin and Laurie. We enjoyed one day at the indoor water park and loved every minute of it. I love seeing Isaac enjoy the water.
My best friend from college, Janel, got married on New Years Eve at the Stein Erickson Lodge in Deer Valley.
She had been planning this occasion for a long time. Everything was absolutely beautiful!!! The one part of the whole day that we will never forget is that the ceremony was held OUTDOORS!!! The temperature was -12! I am so thankful for the faux fur shawl that we had to wrap around our arms. Sadly our toes all froze. Once we all thawed out we had a wonderful night full of amazing food, fun dancing and wonderful fireworks at midnight. Congratulations Janel and Cameron! We had a great time.