Christmas Day 12.25.08

I wish I had more pictures, but the boys broke my camera lense in the beginning of December and I am so sad without it. I have a zoom lense, but that is such a pain to switch to, and I don't want it to get broke either...so I have been really bad about pics. I took a few on Christmas, but did a lot of video as well. Christmas morning we spent at the Pike's. A few days before we had all of Chris' siblings at his Mom and exchanged gifts and had a great time. I wish I had pics from that day, Alli and Mom will have to send me copies (hint hint) ;) .

Christmas morning we always gather upstairs at about 7am and form a line to come down the stairs to see what Santa left. Unlce Ammon came home from his first semester at BYU, and aunt Brittany is a sophomore this year.Travis with Aunt Micaela.

Uncle Levi.

Wesly and Travis got a big present each from Santa. Wesly got a bigger bike (now Travis can use the smaller one) and Travis got a skateboard. Ever since I can remember Travis hasbeen in love with any type of board sport. Surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, you name it. He always turns a flat surface into a boarding sport. So, needless to say, he was extatic with his gift. The boys also got about 40 ninja turtle action figures and some books. The got a few games and some other fun toys they were really excited about. Chris got Rock Band for the Wii and a few camping things he will be using a lot with scouts. (Camelpack, hobo tool, head lamp) Chris got me a Cropadile (super fun!) and a bike trailer (woohoo). His Mom put together a fun ribbon kit and holder so I can start making bows for our little girl. And my Mom gave us a notebook that I am excited to get filled out, it has emergency paperwork and everything I need to be prepared for any emergency. I am trying to put together my food storage this year and an organized notebook with this info was actually step number one with the program I am following, (sweet! easy first step!)

The boys were pretty tuckered out at the end of the day. Nothing like reading with their favorite Aunt Micaela to put them to bed.

Liz and Daryn and Rebekah were there too, but apparently I only got this pic of Nate and Liz.

We had a wonderful Christmas as always and had even more fun getting almost all of my siblings together the next week in Utah....