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It feels like Christmas!

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I can't believe it. Christmas has come and gone already! Crazy. I (along with everybody else) love Christmas time. The smells, the food, family, and gift giving. I love it all. The only thing I didn't like is that my camera only worked some of the time. I don't know what's wrong with it.

Our Christmas festivities started on Christmas eve with Chris's family. We get together around 4:00 p.m. and eat, put together puzzles, reenact the nativity, and open presents from Santa.
Then onto my parents house to drive around and look at Christmas lights. Personally, that is my favorite part.

We woke up around 6:30 a.m. ( who can sleep in on Christmas morning?!) Opened our presents in about 5 minutes and got ready to head into Chris's parents house. We looked outside our window and it had snowed about 5 inches so I decided to call my mom in town and asked how much they had gotten. She told me they had barely gotten anything, so we braved the roads into town and went to see what Ty had gotten for Christmas.

After that, it was back to my parents for breakfast. Yummy.


Here is my dad on his mini bulldozer moving some snow so everyone could park in front of the house.

Picture of all of the grandkids. 

I was so looking forward to Christmas day because Dallin would be calling for the last time before he comes home!
Here is all of us in the shirts that Dallin sent us from Switzerland. I don't know why we posed like this.

A while ago, when Dallin was in Germany, there was a missionary who had a shirt like this and I saw it in a picture. I told Dallin that he HAD to get me and Chris one. He finally did! Love it.


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This past Sunday my oldest sister Julie and her husband Trent blessed their baby Caleb.

I just love those chunky checks  :0)


Me, Carrie, Dana, and Julie with Caleb Ray.


The proud parents, Trent and Julie.


My mom and dad holding their 9th grandchild.

I hope that everybody had a wonderful Christmas!

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Gallant Family said…
Hey, we have some of the same paper for our blog! I thought it was perfect. Anyway, it was good to see you guys. We'll be back in about a month (as long as the weather is okay). I'll keep a watch on the status of the rest of your present. Hopefully it won't take too long to get to mom's. LOVE YOU!
December 31, 2008 at 11:08 AM
nelson clan said…
I'm so glad you are good at keeping up your blog. It takes me too long to try and do it myself. So I like Trent to help me, but he is so busy with his church calling and wrestling. Maybe well get time on New Year's Day. I love Caleb's close up picture Dana took. It's my favorite.
December 31, 2008 at 12:23 PM
cwinches said…
Jena my name is Cassie. You know me :) It looks like your Christmas was super fun! I was in Corinne Christmas morning and the snow was INSANE!
I can't believe Dallin is coming home already. That went by fast. That's a cute picture of you all in those shirts. I hope you had a good New Year.
January 1, 2009 at 7:18 PM
Carrie and Jeff said…
I'm a little slow checking blogs. It's been awhile. Christmas was good, except for the lovely snow that day.
January 6, 2009 at 4:09 PM
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