This year Landon's family was getting together on Christmas. We thought about just going up Christmas Day after we had opened presents and stuff, but in the end we decided as a family that we would go up Christmas Eve instead so we could have one more day with the family.
Christmas Eve was Sunday so we went to church first thing at 9 am. (it was only an hour long-just sacrament meeting). It was the perfect Sunday service and the speaker said just what I needed to hear after our hard week previous. After church we came home and opened our family gifts. Each kid gave each person in the family something thoughtful and nice. Bryce thought of his gift on his own and had gotten each family member a big box of their favorite breakfast cereal-apparently that's a big deal in our house. The kids also opened up some clothes and their Christmas PJ's from Dad and Mom.
After that we finished packing and loaded up the car.It was quite an undertaking loading up all the presents, suitcases, and kids but we managed to pull it off.
On the way to Flowell. We stopped in Cedar City to visit my Grandma Marshall. We were able to give her our gifts and have lunch and a nice visit before heading on down the road.
We finally made it and had a nice relaxing rest of the afternoon/evening. That night the kids did a small nativity performance with some of their cousins.
After that it was time to set out our stockings and snap a quick traditional picture of the kids in their Christmas Eve PJ's.
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| Why is it so hard to get a good picture-HA! |
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| "Are we there Yeti?" |
**side note**I am so excited about our Christmas Stocking in fact they are new this year. I had been wanting a matching set for the whole family for a few years now. They put these ones on clearance the day before Christmas Eve at Target and I was able to find 3/5 thinking I could order the other 2 online. Only to get home and discover I couldn't. I then went back to Target and asked them if they would please check the back room to see if they happened to have anymore. They did and finally after waiting for quite awhile the nice sales associate came back with the exact two I needed. I was beyond thrilled-a small Christmas miracle.**
After that it was off to bed for a short, but good nights sleep, as Christmas morning comes early for the Ellison Family.
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