so, christmas is a highlight for sure, and we loved every minute of the holiday with family and friends. we switch off christmas eve and christmas day with our families every year, and this year was christmas eve at the hills :) we switched from our usual fondue tradition and went with wings and appetizers for dinner, and we loved it! way easier set up and clean up, and we just hung out and enjoyed each other's company. family came over to visit, and we got our christmas eve pj's, and we watched a video that carson made for us in the mission field, and we wrapped presents (we are all last minute wrappers), and we just giggled and reminisced and had fun hanging out together. it was the 1st time in my whole life that we all didn't cram into the same room to sleep, and it was also the 1st year that i had someone to wake up with me throughout the night - only this time it wasn't cuz i couldn't take the anticipation, it was cuz beckam was hungry! haha it was a good night though, and we still walked up the stairs youngest to oldest to see all the goodies under the tree! i just love christmas at our house and the silly and fun tradtions that we developed over the years! we opened presents and all got spoiled as usual. then, we talked to elder hill in arkansas, and that was awesome! he's doing so great, and it was so fun to hear his voice :) then, after our usual german pancake breakfast, it was off to stirling for the rest of christmas day!
becks in his santa suit that grandma hill got him - so stinkin cute!
us girls in our christmas eve pj's :)
dinner with the fam
umm....the hot wings were a little hot i guess! haha
we had fun there too and got spoiled some more with some great presents and good times :) dust was santa and handed out all the presents, and beckam just slept in grandpa's arms through all of the fun! we visited family over at sandra's and then just hung out and had a delicious turkey dinner with the fam. we love just relaxing together, and we played our new game and ate treats and just soaked up the family time. it's different when you know you're leaving for 3 years in a few days, and we just love our families so much, so christmas was awesome.
mona always said to the kids - it's only a good day if you make it a good day - so she put her little quote on signs for all of the kids, and we love it! the funny thing was that dust and i got that same little quote put on a sign for her for christmas!
bestest cousins :)
we had the tolman get together in cardston this year on the 27th, and it was lots of fun too! we love all of the family things that we get to go to over the christmas holidays, and it's always fun to see the tolmans since they live in edmonton. cindy made us a delicious dinner, and we played games and had fun with alaina and aj and beckam, and it was just good times as usual!
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It's so hard to sum everything up but ya did a great job. I may steal a few of the pictues from your blog for my personal files and maybe post them on my blog. I really need to get my hands on your pictures to copy all the ones I want!
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