We woke up this Christmas morning to about 2 feet of snow, it is very pretty and appropriate if you are staying home and hanging with the family.

Santa came to our house and it looks like he decided to stay:

Santa is also known as Peter

We enjoyed opening presents at 6:45am this morning and then the older people went back to bed for awhile.  Now we are just lazing around and eating, the perfect Christmas day!

Awesome day of vacation:

Slept in until 9:00
Did lots of nothing
Worked out for 50 minutes on the bike at the gym with Audrey and Emma
Went out to lunch with Brian and Audrey
Listened to Jim Gaffigan on Lauren's computer
Watched BYU lose (dang!)
Delivered Emma's treats to her friends
Delivered a treat to my librarian friend and a share the gift card
Ate nachos for dinner
Watched movies with the family

AAHHHH!

On another note, Palmer got a letter from Utah State University giving him a $13,000 stipend for his first year of school.  Very cool.

Reunion Sunday

Our Sacrament Meeting Christmas Program was very nice.  I was up on the stand the entire meeting which gave me a great view of my entire family sitting together on the bench!  Audrey and Lauren arrived safe and sound on Saturday afternoon.  Nothing compares to going to bed at night knowing all your children are safe under the same roof.

Audrey came with me to a girls night out party with some of the women in our ward last night.  We ate and did Just Dance!  It was pretty funny seeing us old women dancing, but Audrey was a good sport and even tried it as well!

We are looking for some new things to do this Christmas season since many of our old traditions we don't have access to up here.  We've found some light displays in Powell and Cody which is just a short hour and a half away that we may go to on Christmas Eve.

I'm looking forward to this week.  All my shopping is done and all I have to do is hang with the family.

They arrived safe and sound!  We all went to see Palmer wrestle his second guy and he lost.  But he pinned this guy later today:

Okay, so I'm waiting for my girls to walk in the door any minute and I'm trying to find something to do while I'm waiting, I'm just a little excited!  Palmer wrestled again today and pinned his guy in a little over a minute.  He looked great!  Emma cheered as well, here is a great picture of her and her cheer friends.

Quick update:

Palmer pinned his guy in the dual wrestling meet today against Riverton in the second period!

Emma cheered at the meet for her debut as a cheerleader and did a great job!

Brian filled in for me as a room mom in Peter's first grade class for their Christmas party.

I spent the day (from 6:15am--7:00pm) in Billings going to the temple and shopping with my new friend Holly.

Audrey and Lauren get here tomorrow!

Eastside Elementary Christmas Concert

It was Lucy and Peter's Elementary school Christmas concert last night.  It was really cute.  I tried to film the entire concert, but I didn't have enough memory, so here's all I got!  The concert was only 1st through 3rd grade which made it nice and short.  The 4th and 5th grades didn't have one for some reason.  Eric wasn't too disappointed in that fact.

A friend and I were planning a temple/Christmas shopping trip to Billings today, but we decided not to go.  The roads are just not looking good.  We are going to shoot for Thursday, hopefully there will be some melting going on by then.

Here is our decorated family room.  The tree looks better in these pictures than in real life!

It's really cool to have a fireplace mantle to hang the stockings on this year.

Palmer had his senior pictures taken while we were in Utah for Thanksgiving.  Here is one of them, I will be getting the rest later.  He thinks his face looks a little swollen for some reason.

Handsome dude!