Christmas with the Calls

For those of you in Utah, you know, it started snowing pretty hard here on Christmas eve. Well, the Call's live where it was probably the windy-est (sp?) To be cautious, we decided to pack and plan on sleeping at their house-which we did end up doing. It ended up being more fun than we had hoped. We had "snack/finger" foods, then we watched Mr. Kreugers Christmas, than our family did a little "program" and then Grandpa read the night before Christmas. Then...we went SLEDDING!!! :) Nick and Quinn did the most...the kids rode in the truck with grandma and grandpa and I pretty much sat in the bed of the truck-freezing! It was so cold! But SO much fun! Utah is great about plowing the roads almost immediately when it snows-not good for us sledders...but we found that the church parking lot hadn't been plowed so thats where the most of the fun took place.


My daughter is notorious for sleeping in-usually 930am or 10am every day-so this was really the first year that we haven't woken up at the crack of dawn to open presents. We didn't get started until just before 9am.

It was nice to sleep in.... Christmas was great-as usual! Nick took a nap in the afternoon, but when he woke up, he wasn't feeling well-again-so shortly thereafter we headed home...missing Christmas dinner! :'-(


Poor Nick is sicker than ever and I have been secluded in our room with the kids-while periodically checking on him and doing laundry-but trying to keep us away so we can keep well!!!




(This is my pile of laundry-from us being sick...feel sorry for me?)




Anyway, we got some wonderful presents and are SO grateful for the fun time that we did have with the Calls this holiday (we hope to go sledding many more times in the future!). I think we'll have to stay in seclusion for a week or more once this illness does pass to be sure its gone and that it won't go to anyone else...hopefully we'll be better by new years......
Merry Christmas everyone!