We went to my dad's for Christmas Eve for chicken enchiladas (yummy!) and had a good time, though we were pretty sure that the boys were going to destroy his apartment! I don't have any pictures from that night because I suck. Daniel came home with a mountain of presents though. One of the highlights was when Clayton opened his Cars memory game and said "OOOHHHH!!! THAAAANK YOUUUU!!!!" He was so frickin excited about it, we thought he might cry. It was hilarious!
Christmas morning Daniel walked right by the tree and came to our room. He still might be a little young to understand! He made out like a bandit though: Santa brought him everything he wanted and a few things more. 
Matt had a pretty awesome Christmas. Phil's sister in law's something or other (there's a trail there) cleans Tim Tebow's house so Ali & LouAnne sent Matt a signed football and poster. He was super excited and now after we bought a case for the football it is sitting on our shelf next to our Christus. Yep. It's pretty important. After Ali told me she was sending them, I thought what the crap am I buying anything for him since it's going to suck in comparison. But I did make him a new Broncos blanket. He had a blanket that Sister Leacock made him for when he got baptized that had little triangles for the edging and everything. Baptism - like 19 years ago baptism. It was toast. Rips everywhere, even though I have repaired it multiple times. So I made him a new one and let me tell you, between making 180 triangles, multiple pinnings, sewing, multiple picking out of the stitches that were making it retarded, this blanket is the bain of my existence. Luckily, Debby Farrer is a miracle worker and helped me finish it! I told him that when this one dies, we are either buying one or calling sister Leacock to make him a new one cuz I'm not doing it!
Later that day we went over to my mom's where grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, & siblings all were. We were a little late on dinner so it made for a later day but that was all right. Daniel played Just Dance with his cousin Maddie and it was super awesome video footage I got! Daniel got even more loot, including art supplies, Mack the truck from Cars, his 2nd track of this Christmas, and Bumblebee. Clayton decided to play inside a box and close himself in there so that's those last pictures are of.
Since Daniel got a big boy blanket from Santa, we decided it was time for him to use the big boy bed (mostly because I didn't want to tuck in a comforter on the trundle bed). So here is where Daniel sleeps now. My baby isn't a baby anymore. =( But he is absolutely loving it! That was our Christmas. Hopefully yours was just as awesome!
Then there was this one house that had a roller coaster in their yard with a mickey mouse, elmo, and a headless ET dolls. Daniel was super excited about this one and that's where the picture came from. The picture doesn't do justice how thrilled he was! After looking at the lights we went back for goodies and the missionaries came over for goodies. One of the missionaries we really like because he's still himself and is still a really good missionary. I forget how it came up but he mentioned that he had a dream that David Archuleta was his mission companion and it was the worst nightmare of his life! It was hilarious! Can't wait for next years Naples night!
On Thanksgiving morning a whole bunch of us retards actually got up early to run a 5K. And paid for it. Logically as I say it out loud, it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense but apparently I felt the need to do it. It was nice finishing it though, I'm not going to lie. I finished in 35 minutes so I might as well have been walking but nevertheless I can attest that I was indeed "jogging" 95% of the time. I stopped only once for about the length of a the Walmart. After the Turkey Trot, they had a kids dash and I wanted Daniel to do it because all the other kiddos were and I thought it would be super cute. He wasn't thrilled though because he was still half asleep so Brooklyn and Reece had to hold his hand to get him to go to the starting line and we had to promise him a new car. All about the currency, right Julie? He was excited about his medal that he got though later in the day because it was "just like Brady's" since Brady has a bunch of karate medals in his room.
Thanksgiving dinner was super yummy and I think I have a newfound appreciation for potato pearls after how long it took me to wash, peel, and cut an entire 40 pound bag (ok I might be exaggerating) of potatoes. The kids got to sit at the fancy table so they felt special. I especially enjoyed the turkey cupcakes though.
