Christmas 2022
This year we got to enjoy Christmas Eve and Christmas Day together as a small family AND Ryan didn't have to work on either day. On Christmas Eve we made decorated gingerbread houses (which were actually Oreo houses), ate a yummy dinner of Stromboli, opened up the girls Christmas dresses to wear the next day, watched The Christ Child, and used rocks to make pictures while telling the Nativity story. And we read Twas the Night Before Christmas (my favorite tradition growing up).
On Christmas morning, Ryan and I got up early to fill the girls stockings and put them on the couch. When we got them up we were excited to watch them go through their stockings and then open up presents. I got Ryan a usb lighter, a pair of light up lightsaber chopsticks, and a Peruvian tie with the Provo City Center temple on it. I got a few books that I've wanted, new throw pillow covers (probably my favorite gift, I hated our other pillow covers haha), a blanket, and lots of chocolate. Rose and Lucy got several gifts for them to share: a Yoto Player and some audiobook cards to go with it, Magnatiles, and their own little coloring tablets for them to use in church without getting colored pencils or crayons all over the place. Quinn got a little set of bear nesting dolls to gnaw on.
Christmas was on a Sunday this year so we also went to church for an hour. Our ward had a carol service for sacrament meeting this year, which I got to help plan. A handful of members picked their favorite Christmas songs and then shared a thought about why it was their favorite song. I shared that mine is I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.
Getting ready for church on Christmas morning was very chaotic, so after church we all took naps for a couple hours and then we had steak for dinner. After dinner we each wrote down a gift to the Savior that we would work on throughout the year.
Things don't always go the way I plan with 3 little kids at home and 2 very tired parents. But overall we had a really nice weekend together celebrating Jesus Christ's birth and sharing our love for each other.
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