We love to go look at Christmas lights! Ok, so maybe everyone doesn't love it, maybe they just like it, but I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do at Christmas time. When I was little, my mom used to drive us around Rexburg, all packed into our station wagon, looking at all the Christmas lights. There were so many of us crammed in that car, we'd fog up the windows and not hardly be able to see out, and then complain cuz we couldn't see the lights. My mom would tell us to quit breathing so much. HAHA So we would all try and hold our breath as long as we could. Those were the good ol days. So now we take our family all around and try and find the best lit up neighborhoods we can. This is right outside the hospital that Had works at. Houston knows how to light it up. I love love love going downtown Houston at Christmas!! The palm trees and walkways and down the sides of the road are just the greatest! Lit up palm trees might be my new favorite.
We have to make our gifts for our siblings each year, so I spend a lot of December trying to come up with ideas. I finally decided, and made this giant wreath and picture for Ang.
We went over to our friend's house (Gusty and Teri Graham) for Christmas Eve dinner. We had so much yummy food, then we roasted marshmallows and had smores. The kids ran around and played outside, played catch, and jumped on the tramp while the grown ups visited. If we're gonna live in Texas, we might as well embrace the warm weather at Christmas time right? Then we had everyone come in and we got all the kids to act out the story of Jesus' birth. Dashy got to be Baby Jesus, Jerzi was the angel, and Jeter did not want to be in it at all. He finally accepted the part of holding the star. All in all it was such a good night, and I'm happy that we got to share it with friends!!!
