Christmas Fun 2010!

For Christmas this year we spent over a week visiting my family. I will say that I wasn't a huge fan of packing all the presents and I think a shorter trip next time would be better for all of us, but we really did have a great Christmas!

We didn't have to get up until almost 9:00 which was very nice! Santa found us and brought Lexie "Super Letters" and candy. Hoyt got a monkey that sings songs when you push his hands and feet.

Hoyt also wanted to play with Lexie's super letters.

Lexie was most excited about her candy from Santa. She also liked her train.

She also got a trash truck from Toy Story 3 because she loves to watch the trash truck come dump the dumpster just below our condo every few days. And she LOVES Super Why so she got a Super Why talking action figure and an Alpha Pig because she loves his "amazing alphabet tools".

Hoyt woke up long enough to see his Santa gift and open his basketball toy. Bryan says I am getting him started early, but with a name like Hoyt he has to like basketball. :) He didn't want anything to do with presents after that and here he is snuggling with Uncle Pete which he did a lot all week. He went down for a nap and opened the rest of his presents later, but I didn't take more pictures.

Bryan was super excited to finally get a Wii! He has been wanting one since they came out and we could finally afford one this year! He also loved his hot chocolate and socks from Jodi.

I hate to include these lovely photos of myself, but Bryan was really good to me this year and got me an awesome new little camera and a cute, very-warm winter coat! We may have gone a bit overboard with the gifts this year (although we did stick to our budget), but we are way blessed and had a great time with old and new traditions and most importantly remembering our Savior's birth...the true reason for the season.

This is one of our many crazy games of "Apples to Apples". It's fun to play late at night when we are all a little silly and we laugh for hours. Fun family bonding time. (We were all skyping with Eric and Tracie during this game so that is where everyone is looking).

Here is cool-dude Hoyt with Grandpa Hoyt's work hat on backwards. He had a lot of fun with Grandpa, Grandma and all his aunts and uncles.

Lexie was dressed up the entire week also in Jen's princess dresses mostly. She also decided to try on Grandpa's work hat and sunglasses and I had to take a picture. She also decided to try the basketball basket on her head. She had so much fun playing and did not want to go home after a week of playing with all her aunts and uncles...especially Aunt Jennifer!

Sunday night at Great-Grandpa & Grandma Hoyt's house. I spent almost every Sunday night growing up at my grandparent's house just a few blocks from my house playing with my cousins and just visiting family. I have a lot of fun memories and now my kids get to make some memories there also.

A few other things we did during the week: Bryan and I ate lunch at the new restaurant down the street from my parent's house and the food was excellent! We were also able to go see "Dispicable Me" at a theater in Kanab for a customer appreciation from our awesome insurance agent (and cousin) Aaron. I did get really sick starting Christmas Day which was not fun (the kids and Bryan all had it the weeks leading up to Christmas), but other than that we had fun playing Mario Kart and eating lots of yummy food. Here's to the end of a crazy, but good year!