Christmas 2011

Merry Christmas to all our family and friends!

Christmas Eve we made a little visit to Matt's family before joining my family with dinner and gift exchanges.
We finally got pictures of the boys with Papa and and Baby Elai! Granted, it's not the best but it's amazing we got this. Alex was literally only down for a second before we wandered off again. Good thing our camera can be quick. Evan is getting better at taking pictures. Only on a good day though :).

When it was time to go over to my families home we enjoyed a wonderful meal together and did our gift exchanges.
Alex opening his first gift of Christmas. Candy! He also got a toy airplane that he can but together and take it apart again with a working drill from Grandma and Grandpa.

Evan had fun with the poppers.

He got a trio car set of Disney Cars 2 from Grandma and Grandpa.
Since my family is big, we draw names and we give that person a gift instead of trying to buy everyone gift. Ammon had us and we had him. He gave Matt and I The Plates of Gold DVD and the boys Once Upon a Monster Kinect game for the XBOX.
Mom and Dad gave Matt and I a really nice 115 piece set of tools. You can never have enough tools. Thanks so much!!
We went home and did our traditional gift for Christmas Eve. Pajamas!

The camera wasn't quick enough this time :). Individual it is! He can't get away in his crib.

Evan you have to smile! Santa is coming!!

That's better...

And Santa came!


Here's a video of their reactions.

Alex didn't wake up on his own so he was groggy. Once he was awake enough he wouldn't get out of his car so he opened the rest of his gifts later.

Evan opening his own camera! I hope mine will be left alone now.

This is another fun toy that Alex loves! Evan has fun playing with it too. Everything they got this year is something they all enjoy. I love that when Alex isn't territorial.


The boys also got some practical things like clothes. I love those gifts. For family gifts we got new Kinect games (Wipe Out 2 and Dance Central 2), movies and Apple TV. LOVE! Any household with kids should get one! I no longer have to put in DVD's for the boys because we're uploading all our movies to our computer. Apple TV connects to the computer and our movies play from there. It's our own Netflix. It also plays all our music, shows our photos and we can view Netflix and YouTube from it as well. It does other things but thats all I use it for.
Matt got some backpacking equipment and clothes. I got a new bedding set and clothes. Santa was great to us this year!
Since Christmas was on Sunday we went to church. It was only 30 minutes long! Very welcome since the boys wanted to get back to their toys and see Papa Thompson. When we got to there we opened gifts. The boys got even more spoiled.



(Car Holder)

Matt got even more backpacking equipment and I got my final season of Boy Meets World and some sewing supplies :). We also got some games for the family.
Later Leanna skyped with us from her Mission in Edmonton Canada. It was so fun to be able to see her instead of just talking to her on the phone. She's enjoying her mission so much and it was great talking to her for an hour.
The rest of the day we played games with my mom and one of my sisters at our house.
Merry Christmas!