Christmas Time!

Grandpa Spence drove all the way from Texas to spend Christmas with us! He came in on Thursday. With a little time, the kids warmed up to him. Ty quickly learned what a fun horsey Grandpa can be!

Christmas Eve, Matt and Ty played outside while I tied up a few loose ends and got dinner ready.

Matt and Steve went out shopping for a little bit that afternoon and made it back in time for dinner. We had a yummy ham dinner. It was DELIGHTFUL!

That evening we drove down to the OMNIMAX dome Imax theater to see "The Polar Express" Ty was pretty much the cutest kid ever. 

 He was on cloud 9. Luckily we had nice grandparents in front of us that thought Ty's enthusiasm was cute because he just couldn't contain his JOY of seeing one of his FAVORITES on such a cool screen! He kept saying "WOW! Cool! Mommy LOOK!" It was actually a pretty cool place to see the movie and the perfect thing to do on Christmas Eve. 

Maylee was even perfect. She watched most of the movie and didn't make a peep. 

When we got home we opened the kids Christmas Eve gifts...

May loves wrapping paper. 

Of course we all know it's pajama's from my parents... Ty's were Thomas and he loved them! May's had a reindeer on her bum. :) 

Kids with their pajamas on ready for bed. 

Christmas morning Matt got up way early and flipped our couch around to face the tree and set out the stockings and boot for Steve over by the tree.  

Maylee and I were still asleep together in our bed so Ty and Matt came in to wake us up. Ty said MERRY CHRISTMAS MOMMY! It was a perfect way to wake up. 

We always look in our stockings and see what Santa brought us. Santa brought Ty a Thomas book and Maylee a new winter hat. Then we ate our Christmas Cereal for breakfast and got to opening the rest of our presents. 

We opened presents and Ty of course opened his new talking Thomas and didn't really care about the rest. 

He did help May open her presents though. 

Whoops were out of order. Anyway, Ty helped pass out the presents. 

May got a BIG Lady Bug pillow pet from my parents. She liked playing with the antennae. When we sit her on it, it was so big she could hardly crawl off. 

Maylee got a light up star ring tower that she enjoyed too until Ty decided it was exciting and took it from her. Yeah we'll need to work on that. 

I was SUPER SUPER SSSSSUUUUUPPPPEEEEERRRR spoiled by Steve and Matt, tons of new clothes, a beautiful new coat and perfume. WOW! Matt got a black Skinny Tie that he's been wanting for years, a noise machine with 12 different sounds so he can sleep better at night and a new coat too! We were spoiled beyond spoiled this year. 

Ty watched BOLT, one of his new movies that the Wu family gave us for Christmas while we got ready for church. The Wu's also got Matt some Stroopwafels, the big ones from Costco. They were SOOO good. I bet they'll last longer since they are the real size. 

We got all ready for church and Steve suggested a we take a picture. My mom made May's outfit and bought Matt and Ty matching ties for Christmas. Luckily my new coat matched perfectly too. I think we're a pretty cute family :)  

Grandpa Steve!

We had a friend take a picture of ALL of us at church.

We came home from church, took naps, cleaned up and ate some left overs. I made some phone calls to my family then we skyped with Jordan and Nate's families and we got to talk to Braden in Mexico! He told us to call at a certain time and we had some serious technical difficulties. Turns out Braden didn't give us ALL the numbers, just the Mexican number not to area code or the country code. Once that was all figured out Steve got through to him he had time left to talk to Steve Matt and I think they worked out a way for Jordan and Nate to talk to him too. 

Ty and Maylee loved all their new things and the wrapping paper, eating all the cookies and candies and playing with family. 

We get one more day with Steve before he takes off to Pocatello to spend time with Jordan and Nate's families. Not sure what we're doing tomorrow, probably just milling around and enjoying one another's company. 

It was a perfect day today. Being together with family and going to church... I couldn't think of a more wonderful way to remember the birth of our Savior.