"This is the best Christmas ever!" - Ben

Christmas + little kiddos = getting up really early. I guess when you tease a kid for months with talk of Santa and there are presents under the tree taunting them for weeks, it's to be expected. What a fun morning it was with our boys, sleepy and all. Joy spent the night with us, and we loved having her here with us this morning before she headed off for fun on the ski slopes.

 

Can you guess what the boys' latest obsession is???

We had a lot of generous help from family and friends to lighten our load and help us give the boys a great Christmas this year, and we can't express enough how grateful we are to all those wonderful people. You know who you are, and we sincerely thank you again!

Later in the day after visiting a very special person, we hosted a little pizza night for some of my family. My parents are here visiting from their mission for the week and they joined us as well as my brother Clair's family. We loved having them all over, and we have loved the opportunity we have had this year to see all of my family within a week's period of time. It's not very often anymore that that happens, and it's so great to see everyone and catch up.

 

As Ben has been saying all day, "This is the best Christmas ever!" I agree Ben, it's been an awesome day, a really awesome day.