So it is now the end of January and I am just now getting to updating my blog! I have thought about doing it everynight but I have been lazy! Sorry this is going to be long! A lot happened over christmas vacation and I wanted to write everything down so that we don't forget this wonderful Christmas! This year was by far one my most favorite Christmases! Adalyn is getting older and new all about Santa and that he would bring her a present if she had been a good girl (which was nice because I could threaten her that she better be nice to get her presents!! :)) For about a month she had been telling us that she wanted Santa to bring her a barbie guitar. So at our ward christmas party that is what she told him she wanted!(she got it too, Santa couldn't say no to her!) The girls loved getting out all the lights and tree and hanging ornaments. Everything about Christmas this year was so exciting for them and for Adam and I to be able to teach our girls all the fun traditions but also teach them the real reason we celebrate Christmas.
So on Dec. 17 Adalyn, Ellie, and Megan flew into Portland to spend a couple extra days with family. We're lucky we were able to fly in it snowed so hard for a couple of days! It's not like woodburn to get a lot of snow so it was fun but a little crazy. This was the first time Adalyn wasn't affraid to touch the snow and Ellie isn't affraid of very much so they loved it. My brother Ross and Lindsay and there boy Braden flew in the same night. Jay and Chelsea and Hannah live down the street from my parents, and Kristy and Will and there 5 girls live in Vancouver Washington about 45 min. away. It was the firt time I had seen Roxelle and she is Beautiful and such a good baby. My girls absolutely loved playing with all there cousins but they really loved baby Roxelle and thought they were the only ones that could hold her. Adalyn asked me a series of question like "do you have a baby roxelle in your tummy?" I said "No" Adalyn asked "Can we go to the hospital and get one?" And we have had a converstation like that almost everyday since. She is so funny. Anyway we did lots of shopping and played and then Adam drove in on the 23rd. The girls and mommy had missed him! We made lots of food and played games everynight, watched lots of movies and just let the kids play all day. It was wonderful! On Christmas morning it was just Jay, Ross there families and our family with my parents and later in the day Kristy and Will came down. It was such a fun Christmas morning. The girls loved everything they got and so did Adam and I. We got lots of good stuff. Late christmas night Jackie and her family flew in. A couple of days later Paula and 2 of her kids Haylee and Alexa came. There whole family was going to come but because of the snow there flights kept getting cancelled and so last minute the 3 of them decided to still come. It was so fun having us all at home. There were a lot of people. 13 adults(2 of them pregnant) and 13 grandaughters and 2 grandsons. It was a full house. We love being able to spend the holidays or anytime with family.
