Christmas morning

After Billy finished his finals and Kylie got out of school for winter break we headed to Vegas to spend Christmas with Billy's family. Christmas is always amazing at the Palmers house. The house is decorated to the max with the cutest Christmas decorations. We had a yummy Christmas eve dinner and then read Christmas stories, put on our matching Christmas PJs and sent the kids to bed where they anxiously awaited santa's arrival. In the morning we all opened up our gifts (one by one of coarse), ate Christmas breakfast, and went to see Alvin and the Chipmunks. It was a really great Christmas!

The most wonderful time of the year!

I love Christmas time!!! December has been such a busy and fun month! Billy had finals the first part of the month, so he was busy studying away and missed out on a few of our activities. The kids and I flew to Las Vegas for Billy's little brother, Shane's mission homecoming. While there, we took the kids to the mall to see Santa. I thought that since Dawson is a big 4 year old now that he wouldn't be scared of Santa. It turns out I was wrong. He was just as scared as Kale, as you can tell from the picture above. The rest of the month was filled with baking my traditional christmas sugar cookies, shopping, wrapping, Christmas parties, going to Christmas card lane, and a white elephant gift exchange with friends.

Happy Turkey Day '09

Billy only had two days off school for Thanksgiving, so we didn't have time to travel to Utah where both of our families were for Thanksgiving, but it was still a really great day!!! We invited a bunch of couples from our ward who weren't going home for the holiday. Billy cooked two turkeys and everyone else brought a side or dessert. Everything turned out sooo yummy!!! I was concerned that we wouldn't have enough room for everyone (21 people including kids), but it actually turned out fine. The kids ate first, and then they all played while the adults binged, i mean ate. Afterward, we played games and chit chatted into the evening. We are so lucky to have found such great friends here in San Diego!!