Christmas 2008

Well, I am finally getting around to posting about our Christmas. I feel like I have so much to catch up on each time I post, but I have a good reason for that this time. More on that another time though.

We are so blessed to have awesome families. We usually spend the weekend before Christmas up at Mark's parents house, Christmas Eve at Mark's aunt's house, and Christmas Day at my parent's house. This year we switched it up a little, and it was a good thing we did. We had record amounts of snow the week before Christmas, and we had a white Christmas this year!

Christmas Eve we open stockings. Can you tell they were excited about that?!
Aspen watching over Journey, ready to "help" her out.

Christmas morning, getting ready to eat our traditional Christmas morning cinnamon rolls. Mmmm!

Aspen and Daddy putting together his present, a remote control rock crawler.

Yum, this makes me hungry...

Princess Journey trying on her new dress up accessories.

This was Journey's big present, a play kitchen. She loves it and has spent a lot of time cooking already.

Aspen wearing his new superman underoo outfit.

Another one of Journey's favorite gifts, a shopping cart. Thanks Aunt Charity!

Papa reading the annual Chrismas story.

We spent a relaxing Christmas morning at home opening our own presents, eating cinnamon rolls, and playing with the new toys. Aspen was so in love with his rock crawler and almost immediately started setting up jumps in the living room for it. He is so his father's son!

Next we went to my parent's house to spend Christmas with everyone. It was a little crazy trying to get there with all the snow. We couldn't get up the driveway so Troy and Justin brought us up with 4-wheelers...us and all our presents!

Now for the Wilde Christmas. Here's the annual cousin picture. Journey and Ava refused to sit with the boys unless Diana and I would sit with them.

Opening presents. This was a big talking, singing my little pony named Pinky Pie. She loves this toy and dances to it every day.

Journey and Ava reading books with Nana. It's so fun watching their relationship develop. Journey calls her "Vava", and likes to talk to her on the phone.

Both girls got matching baby strollers. These were easily their favorite toys they got, and spent the entire weekend racing them around the house.

This was another one of Aspen's favorite gifts, a star wars guy costume from Aunt Charity.

We spent the weekend after Christmas up at Mark's parents house with everyone. Thankfully, both Aspen and Journey slept pretty good (I need my sleep!). It's a blast for the kids to spend so much time with their cousins. It works out perfectly as Aspen has so many boys around his age to play with, and Ava and Journey have each other.

The guys had planned to go skiing, but the weather changed and it was raining up on the mountain. They had a fun guys day, while we hung out, ate a lot of great food, played games, and had a generally relaxing weekend. We will be going to the beach with the whole family next month, and can't wait to have another weekend together.