Christmas Day!!!

It's been a wet Christmas... the rain won't stop coming down, and has been pouring since yesterday!  Summer was happy to get her Christmas bone... Paisley too!  We got the traditional pictures of peeking around to see the Christmas tree!  Todd is such a good sport to do all our silly traditions!  We got our stockings all opened and then Brooke got to call, so she joined us for some of our Christmas presents!  It was SO FUN to have her join us on the big screen and be in our family room and part of things as we were doing it!  Todd opened up his trombone while she was on the phone with us!  She got to see several gifts being opened and enjoy that with us!  We talked for quite a while!  Then she had to go...

Christmas was so enjoyable for me this year!  I loved giving the gifts I gave this year!  Megan LOVED her t-shirt quilt, Todd loved his trombone (Dad and I helped Megan get that for him), McKenzie loved her new laptop computer and Katelyn flipped when we got her the camera!  A lot of fun stuff was shared and it was most fun to be all together, enjoying the moment as a family!  We also got wet suits and a wake board for the boat... we got Katelyn her own wet suit, but bought a couple of extra for people to borrow when they come to visit us.  Katelyn and Todd tried them out in the pool and said they worked great!  AND, we finished the first of several puzzles we would complete over our Christmas break!  It was a good day of just relaxing and being together!

The last 3 pictures are some that the Bonnafassi's sent to us of their Christmas!  I'm so glad that we could be a part of their lives and help them out during this time of difficulty... everyone falls upon hard times sometimes and it was neat to be there when that need happened for them!  We hope that they will come to church and experience what we know to be true and more of Heavenly Father and the Savior's love for them!