Christmas 2010

We had another wonderful Christmas. The festivities began at G’ma Jan and G’pa Mike’s house on Christmas Eve. We had our traditional foods and games. We had the nativity performed by the kids and believe it or not, it went pretty flawlessly considering how young some of the kids were.

Later that night our family returned home for some of our own traditions. The kids opened their new pajamas, we sang Christmas carols (accompanied by Jacob on the guitar), we toasted with our Martinelli’s, and Seth read “Twas the Night Before Christmas” and then we tucked the kiddos in bed.

Santa was busy at our house. He ate almost all of his cookies and milk and brought in some really great presents. The kids all seemed very happy with their gifts. Other than the fact that we didn’t have any snow on Christmas, it turned out perfect. We were able to enjoy lots of time together and have tons of fun. I will let my photos tell the rest. I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas!

All the grand kids acting out the nativity.

Singing Christmas carols

The kids in their new PJ’s making silly faces

Seth reading “Twas the Night Before Christmas” to the kids.

All of Santa’s hard work!

Santa ate well!

Ellie w/ her new toys.

Drew in his new BYU uniform

Claire and her pillow pet

KK and her new barbies she got from G’pa Gary and G’ma Kathy

Meg with her new roller blades from G’ma Ria

Jake was SO excited to get his air soft gun from Grandma Ria

Claire got these cute mask for Christmas and all the kids put them on. Kind of funny actually.