We had a great Christmas this year! We started by traveling up to SLC the weekend before to see Alberto's family and attend his step-grandma's yearly Christmas party. It was really great to see everyone and we are always impressed at the way this extended family has taken us in.
On Christmas Eve day, Alberto and I finally took Allie and AJ to see Santa Claus. Lucky for us, he hadn't left for the North Pole yet :). We dressed the babies all up in their Christmas outfits, they looked so cute! After finishing up some last minute shopping and making some quick visits to friends, we headed to my parent's house. Alberto had to work over night (major bummer) so the kids and I had a sleep over at my parent's. Uncle Wes came down from SLC to spend Christmas with us. Allie and AJ had lots of fun playing with him and showing off all their new words and skills.
On Christmas day, we all slept in and then had a late breakfast in hopes that Alberto would be able to get some sleep before all the excitement of presents. In spite of our best efforts to let him sleep, he only got about 2 and 1/2 hours, but if you know Alberto, you know that he was happy and pleasant all day! (We are so lucky to have such a great daddy) I swear every year we say Christmas is going to be small, but every year half the living room is filled with gifts! This year the majority of those gifts were for Allie and AJ. They got spoiled rotten! It has been years since we have had little ones around at Christmas so I guess we all just had a little too much fun!
After the gifts were opened, we spent the rest of the day relaxing and playing with the kids and the best part of all was that we got to talk to my little brother, Brad, on his mission! He sounded really good and only has about 5 months to go on his mission!
It was a great Christmas and we are happy to have great family and friends to share and create memories with.
