Even though we are a couple thousand miles from our families and we would have loved to spend the holidays with them, we still had a great Christmas and New Years. I actually thought it was kinda fun celebrating Christmas and New Year's with just our little family. I love it that we get to start our own family traditions!
After we got home from shopping on Christmas Eve, we read "Luke 2" out of the scriptures and watched some videos about Mary and the birth of our Savior. After that we let Alayna open one of our Christmas presents that Brady bought that day. It was the game "Rummikub!" We have played that game a couple times with some friends and I love it! After we opened it we ate dinner and snacks as we played that game and some others. After we played a few games we TRIED to put Alayna to bed. It's like she knew it was Christmas Eve or something! She just seemed so excited and wouldn't settle down! I kept telling her that Santa wouldn't come if she didn't go to sleep. (It didn't work. Haha) After much work and two hours past her bed time, she finally went to sleep. Hallelujah! She watched a couple episodes of the T.V. show "Greys Anatomy" on Netflix with us. (That is the show we are currently into.) Before Brady and I went to bed, Mr. and Mrs. Clause filled our stockings.
We don't have church until 1:00p.m. so we got to sleep in on Christmas morning. We need to enjoy it while it lasts because when we have more kids and Alayna gets older, we probably won't get to sleep in on Christmas morning for a long time! We started opening our gifts at about 11:00a.m. It was really fun because we would let Alayna open her own presents. It was so funny because she loved tearing up the paper and trying to eat it! Haha. We are so blessed because we have WONDERFUL parents who love and care about us. They made sure we had presents under our tree this year and even though we are so far away they still spoiled us!
After church we stayed after and Brady helped count the tithing. The 2nd counselor in the Bishoprik was counting the tithing with Brady and he asked us if we wanted to come over for dinner and to play some games. We went over to their house at about 4p.m. We had a lot of fun! They have 5 cute little kids and they were really funny to watch. It was so cute because the youngest girl, who was about 3 years old, wanted Brady to play Barbie's with her. Brady was "Ken" and she was "Barbie." It was just the cutest thing to watch! She also wanted Brady to play "tea party" with her. Haha. It is just going to be the sweetest thing to watch Brady play cute little girl games with Alayna in the future. :) We got home at about 8:30p.m. We were so thankful for the Smith's for being so kind and inviting us over for Christmas. We had such a great time and a very good Christmas day!
We had a really good New Year's Eve and New Year's Day too! On New Year's Eve, we pretty much did the same thing that we did on Christmas Eve. We played games while we ate dinner and had snacks and after we watched a movie. At midnight Brady and I had a New Year's kiss and then we went to bed. On New Year's Day we had to get up earlier than we are used to. We are use to having our church at 1:00 in the afternoon. Now that it is the New Year, we have church at 9:00a.m. I was kinda excited for church because I got to conduct in Primary for my first time! It went pretty good except Alayna started fussing right when I had to start conducting.
After we got home from church, I made a turkey dinner that was yummy and then we went on a walk and just relaxed the rest of the day. It was a very good New Years.
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