Christmas

Merry Christmas!! These are our Christmas Eve and Christmas pictures.

Playing with Grandpa Murray on Christmas Eve while we waited for the Trax to take us to Temple Square. So cute!

waiting for the lights to come on!
Opening stockings Christmas morning!
happiness that only cost pennies. balloons and rings from Santa.

this is what Whitney did as soon as she saw her new Dora sleeping bag from Natalie- flopped right down on it!

Katelyn with ponies from Aunt Melissa
Whitney squeezing her "boy boybee" (boy barbie) so tight!
playing in the tunnel from Grammy and Grandpa Jamie- they love it! Whitney goes crazy in there, it's hilarious.
We had a really good Christmas morning. Then we went to the Murray's for Christmas dinner and many hours of fun playing Wits and Wagers. One of my favorite things from the day was when Katelyn said in the Christmas dinner prayer that she was grateful she wasn't sick on Christmas. We had actually been praying for that the whole month, because last year she was sick on Christmas and it was really sad for us all that she couldn't be as excited and joyful. So our prayers were answered!

Also we had a quick post-Christmas visit from my parents as they brought Donny to Provo- we're so excited to have him close! The girls had a lot of fun with them too and I forgot to take pictures.

And I forgot to mention our favorite parts of this Christmas season: reading stories every night was SO fun, and the girls LOVED caroling and Whitney even learned a couple of songs all the way through.

I love the Christmas season and how much more often than usual I thought of Christ this month!