Later that evening, Blake, Melissa, and Dallin made it down and it was so nice to have everyone together. We were missing Bryce, as he had to unfortunately stay home and work and house sit for his boss. We missed him terribly, he spent Christmas day riding out in the desert with some friends. He opened his gifts before we left but saved his stocking for Chrismas morning.
Christmas morning was just great! All there together, that was the best present of all! We took turns opening gifts and watching everyone's excitment. We sent each other on treasure hunts too! And this year the kids sent Gordon and I on one!! It was awesome! In the end they gave us a most thoughtful gift and we were just both crying and couldnt even read the card that they made for us! They saved up their money and pooled it together to send us on a VACATION!! Something we have really never done! I dont even know how to process it! We have been on tour with Dad, and we went to Korea to get Blake, but never on a real vacay! How will we act? Where will we go? What will we do when we get there? Those are all questions that will be answered when we actually go..........! Still can't process it.....but are waaay excited for the adventure!
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Christmas morning there was a beautiful snowfall and Babe and I went for a little walk and took some awesome pictures! Babe actually really liked going out in the snow! She did NOT like when we left her at Stacy's for a few days while we went up north, I guess she was howling everytime Stacy left her in the house alone! It got to where she couldn't even leave her!
Grand Prize winning photo!!
What can I say...it was a "picture perfect" Christmas morning!
And.... Stacy's tree was so beautiful!!!
We then went up north to see Blake and Melisss's apt. They called the day after Christmas to give us the bad news that they had been robbed while they were asleep inside their apt. It was very upsetting to everyone, they took their TV, xbox, games, wallet, car keys, and.....car. Merry Christmas......To make a long story short, their car was recoverd about 10 days later and they got ins money for the stolen items, so all is ok in the end but very upsetting and frustrating.
We spent the night with them and Melissa made us this awesome breakfast!! My goodness! Fritatta's and blueberry something rather delight, yum yum! We got so visit Blake in his new place of work! You are the MAN Blake! sweet office!
We then went up to Melanie's to visit and we had planned on going on up to Logan, but a snowstorm kept us from doing that so we held up and had a couple of relaxing days at Melanies. Seth brought Dallin and Kyle back from Logan then next day as he was up there and that worked out well. Then our trip was about over, so we headed back to Stacy's to save her from Babe, and back on to sunny Cali, with an extra passanger, Dallin who came home for a short visit!
Other highlights: Snow! Lights at Temple Square! sleeping on Stacy's couch....!
Losing at Wii bowling! Winger's! Snowmobiling! Shopping with Stacy! Cafe Rio! Seeing Morgan's kids at Burger King! Fabric store with Melanie! Wood store! Seeing Erica!
A big highlight for me was seeing the lights at Temple Square. The Salt Lake Temple is really my favorite temple, even over my own here in SD! So much was sacrificed to build the Salt Lake Temple, it is just so inspiring to see it! Ok I LOVE the Nauvoo Temple to--so really its a toss up, but at Christmastime...SL wins...
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