Christmas Morning

Oh my goodness I love Santa. There is nothing more fun on Christmas morning - than having a 3-year-old wake up in utter excitement - see that Santa ate the Mint Milky Ways she left for him and even left a note. So fun! He even left her the Dora and Tinkerbell movie she asked him for. Carter was thrilled with the basketball hoop Santa brought as well. He spent the whole morning shooting hoops. Dad and Uncle Dan even helped him with some flying dunk moves. Allison is very into pretend right now and so she also got a 4-sided pretend pop-up house thingy from Discovery toys. One side is a post office. She got her own box of envelopes, papers, and sticker stamps for that, one side is a theater (we made some super-cute animal puppets that Carrie found online), one side is a grocery store, and the last side is a stage. After opening presents on Christmas morning we went sledding behind Wymount. There is this great hill! Carrie and Dan said they went to every store in Provo to try to find a sled . . . but to no avail. And thank goodness - we had the best time sledding down on their old air mattress. It was great! Jed and Heidy's family also came sledding with us. Carter got a little too cold after awhile, and so Carrie, Carter, and I left early - but so much fun! That afternoon we also made gingerbread houses. We decided (or maybe I decided) that Dan won the award for most outstanding. His house had pillars, was two stories, had chocolate cinnamon bear statues guarding the entrance . . . quite the creation. Carrie's was super cute with snowment outside. I think I should nominate them to be in charge of one of the Provo Candy Windows next year.

We enjoyed watching the kids play with the Cow Bowling Set Carrie and Dan got them. They loved it!