Every year Christmas comes and goes so fast it's somewhat of a blur. We had a great one this year. It's been really nice to be here at home and enjoy some family time. We spent Christmas eve at Blaine and Jen's house (Paul's brother). We had a great dinner with everyone and then the cousins had to duke it out for their parts in acting out the Christmas story. Maddie had her heart set on playing Mary so Kylie was very nice and let her have her turn. It's always cute to see the kids take on the Bible story. Kenzie was a sheep and was very reverent watching the Baby Jesus.
Christmas morning was the usual flurry of wrapping paper and packaging and plenty of presents. The big, exciting present this year was a Wii. Tanner and Kylie had been asking for one for quite awhile so they were thrilled. It really is a lot of fun to play. We have all had our turn. Kylie was even complaining about her shoulder hurting one morning because you really do have to move around alot while you are playing it.
Besides the Wii, we've had other fun this Christmas break. We went tubing with friends and family at Soldier Hollow. That's a nice operation-they have the rope tow to pull you up the mountain and groomed runs. We had a blast. We also spent the night up in Salt Lake with Blaine and Jen's family and went and walked around and saw the lights on Temple Square. They were as beautiful as usual! The kids love to swim at the hotel indoor pool while it is freezing cold outside. It seems some kind of cruel trick on your body to get in a swimsuit when there is snow on the ground. But other then that we've had a relaxing time.
New Year's eve was at our house this year. We have somewhat of a tradition with a group of friends that we get together and do fondue. This year there were about 35 people( including kids). It was a little chaotic but lots of fun. Tanner and Kylie made it all night but Kenzie went to bed about 9. We don't even know when Maddie went to bed because at about 10 I was thinking I hadn't seen her for awhile and I found her fully clothed and dead asleep in her bed. She slept thru all the noise of the party and the explosions of fireworks right outside her window! She was so bummed this morning because she missed the chocolate fountain. I'm not used to staying up till 2:30 in the morning so I'm starting to feel it!
The only bad news was that the motherboard on our computer decided it was too tired to function any longer, so we had to say a sad farewell to our computer. So I can't put any pictures with this post. We are kind of out of sorts but luckily we have Paul's laptop to keep up with email and Internet. It's amazing how much you come to rely on your computer. You don't realize it till it's gone! So now we have the joy of shopping for a new computer and getting everything loaded back on to it. The good news is our new one will probably be tons faster then our ancient (3-4 year old) model. We can get 250GB of hard drive! What does anyone do with all that?
We still have one more day to play before the kids have to go back to school on Thursday. It will be interesting trying to get everyone awake before 7 am!
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