Christmas

Christmas Eve was a pretty eventful day. So many last minute errands that we ended up doing our family thing after Hyrum went to sleep. I must say it is different living here because I was surprised to find stores closed for Christmas Eve. In Vegas everything is 24/7 so it was a bit of a shock to do last minute grocery shopping at Longs Drug!!! A lot of other people were surprised, one poor guy told us he had no food in his house and all of the Save Marts closed at 7:00. Don't get me wrong I think it is terrific, but I will just have to remember that for next year!!It also rained all day. Ashlee found Grandma's umbrella and had to hold it up wherever we went and so while we were listening to the Christmas story we had to have an umbrella - it is Ashlee's new favorite thing. Crazy times!

As for Christmas Day it was great. We had a little family get together with just us and Grandma Christmas morning Hyrum and Ashlee both just loved their gifts and are still enjoying playing with them. Hyrum's big thing was a basketball stand (Jed is still hoping for an NBA star!) He walked into the room saw the ball said "Ball" ran to it, picked it up, and started making baskets. He still does it all day! Ashlee just loves to ride her bike around as much as possible. I can't believe how quickly she is growing up. She got the little baby doll too, but wasn't interested until I told her it was a baby Cinderella. Now she carries her everywhere. This was her rocking the baby to sleep. It was so cute, she rocked and sang to her. Anyway we had a good time.

Later in the day my sister, brother and his family came over to open gifts and do Christmas dinner. My mom and sister went crazy for all of the kids! Ashlee was on overload opening all of her presents. Marlena got her a Caring Corners doll house which she LOVES playing with and my mom got her Princess barbies and horses. Ashlee has such an imagination it is adorable watching her play. One of the funniest things was while she was playing with the dollhouse she started making these weird gaging noises. I said "Ashlee are you okay." Here reply - "Mommy it is her she is sick!" I looked to see her with one of the dolls hanging over the toilet -Throwing up!! We all were laughing so hard. She really puts her life into her games - I hear a mimic of myself many times and think - Is that what I sound like?"