Better late than never...

So Christmas has come and gone now and I'm now just barley updating my blog. I'm such a slacker or have just been realy busy, probably the first. Christmas this year was really fun. My mom's family had their usual christmas party, but this year we had an ugly sweater contest. My cousins really got into it. Kirsten had snowman overalls, with a snowman turtleneck and a snowman sweater, to top it off she had jingle bells that jingled when she danced and boy did she dance. She won the prize. My uncle Stan and his family showed up in Utah Utes sweat shirts only to be upstaged by Elliot and his family in all of their Utah sweat shirts. We had a blast. Santa came to visit and bring a pre Christmas gift for all of the kids. Both Chloee and Brooke weren't sure about him.

Christmas Eve we went to Grandpa Grunander's house for a party and to see how he was doing. After his party we went to my aunt Cyndi's for my families traditional Christmas eve party. We had good food and fun thanks to every one. After Cyndi's we went to Grandma Jane's and Papa Tom's house. There we opened white elephants and boy do Chad and Natalie get into that game. We saw white trash hot tubs and briefcases made out of boxers and safety pins. You had to be there for the rest. After the game Grandma had made sugar cookies and hot chocolate. Brooke had more fun feeding uncle Scotty-Do than eating them herself.

Christmas morning was really fun. The girls got everything they asked for thanks to Santa and Mom and Dad. Chloee got a barbie camper with four barbies to play with, a playdo ice cream maker and a polly pocket disney princess castle with all of her favorite princesses. Brooke got a princess powerwheels car that she quickly learned how to drive by watching her big sister, and she got a new baby doll with stroller, high chair and bassenet all to herself. She no longer has to share her sister's. Tyler got exactly what he wanted, his remote control rock crawler and was just like a little kid. He took his toy everywhere and tried out every obstecle he could create on Christmas. Thanks to Tyler I got a bike stand for my bike to exercise on and socks just like I asked for. This year Christmas was really fun and we have been so blessed this past year. We hope this up coming year will be as good as the last.