xmas

We had a great Christmas Break.  We celebrated Christmas at home. Christmas Eve was a Sunday, so we went to church for 1 hour, we had our traditional Chinese food for dinner, this time from Costco.  We acted out the Nativity. And this year the Sisters invited us to go caroling to some less-actives.  It was great.  And then we came home and opened secret siblings gifts.

Christmas morning started at 6:30.  We had a great time opening presents.  Bob was in charge of Christmas day food so he made pancakes for breakfast and ham and funeral potatoes for dinner.  We played with toys and did puzzles and had a nice lazy Christmas.  We also did our traditional family testimony meeting.

The day after Christmas, Danny had a basketball tournament so we stayed in town for 2 days for that and then we left to go to Visalia, where everyone was there because grandma and grandpa are leaving on their mission.  We had a great time with everyone.  We went shopping, watched movies, played games, went bowling and to a trampoline place.  We stayed until New Years' Day.  All 5 kids stayed up until midnight on New Year's Eve.

We came back after New Years' so Bob could work and Danny could go to practice.  It was also nice to have some lazy time, time with friends and time to work on Kwanzaa.  We went out to dinner to celebrate Kwanzaa this year.