chRistmAs come ANd goNe...

we had a great christmas! to start off, dave woke me up Christmas morning at 5:30. He said "do you wanna open your present!?" and then laughed and rolled over and went back to sleep. holy smokes. i was up. so we started early... i had to get up and get ready before i woke dave up to see what santa brought us. He brought dave a mr potato head (he really wanted one...)

and we had to take a picture by our tree before heading off to the families for the day...We spent the morning with Dave's family. They traditionally do eggs benedict for breakfast and it was SO yummy! then Glenn read us the story of the birth of the Savior from Luke. It was a great reminder of the One we were there to celebrate. We opened presents with them and had a ton of fun. Then we headed over to my parents house and hung out with them and then ate dinner. It was so neat to be able to see both of our families. we are constantly grateful to live so close to our families. the only people missing were the simpsons. :( but at least we got to see them a few weeks ago.

The day after christmas is Dylan's birthday so we got together with Dave's family again and played Wii bowling. Dylan kicked everyone's trash - at 8. yeah, can only imagine it's gonna get worse for us old adults...

The next day, the Heimback family all came down to have a Christmas party. we had SO much fun with everyone! We were missing a few, but it was so neat to get so many together. It is so cool to see the family stick together through the deaths of both grandma and grandpa in the past year. and super entertaining to see how similar we all are when we get together. sometimes it's frightening. :) we have a ton of pictures from family gatherings at the Heimback house posed around a couch just like this. it's fun to see how much our family has grown!