Christmas!!

Well, I've been a slacker and now I have to pay the price of sorting through all these pictures.  So, hold onto your hats and mittens and here we go!  The season doesn't officially start until you take a train ride to Temple Square to see the lights.  This is a tradition we started since we moved to Kaysville. The kids love it and every year I question why we do this to ourselves.  You'll find out why later....

 

We were happily waiting for the train to come......

 We had a blast zooming past all the cars and the best part is no seatbelts!

 We made it to Temple Square.  The lights were amazing as always.

 Josh wanted a green Hulk face.....

 We even headed over to city creek which was fun.  Especially the candy windows.

 Now this is where the story takes a turn for the worse.  We barely missed the trax train to go back to the station and we thought "Well, there will be another one in a few minutes.  We'll be okay."  The other train didn't come for like 20 minutes.  But we still thought "I'm sure they time it so the trax makes it on time to catch frontrunner.  We'll be okay."  Well, they don't time it.  We missed the frontrunner train by about 2 mintues which means we had to wait in the freezing cold for 53 mintues until the next train came. Yep, we had to wait until the 9:55 train and the kids had school in the morning.  And to make matters better....as soon as we got there, a lady was puking on the tracks.  That should have been an omen.  So the kids were staring at her, then Kate needed to go potty and experience the Grayhound station.  The only thing that kept us going was watching "kid history" on daddy's phone.  It was a long night......

 Onto happier things......we decorated the tree.....

 Our elf, Dasher, had a few games of his own.....

 And someone was caught on camera!  Rachel requested a picture of Santa for Christmas.  Boy was she surprised when he was caught in the act!

 Then we had a magical Christmas morning!  My kids are at the perfect ages for Christmas!  I wish it could always be like it was this year.

 As soon as Kate opened her stocking and saw a fruit by the foot she got to work....

 20 minutes later......The rest of us were opening presents and she was still going, foot by foot.....

 She finally decided to open a present but she's still looking longingly at the foot that's left.......

 Josh got his Hulk punching fists which came in handy to flatten those little bubble things that come in packages....

 Gross, I know but I had to prove I was there on Christmas too.

 The best gift Trav and I got for Christmas was a new fancy camera!!!!  So the rest of the Christmas pictures were taken with that beautiful little baby.  We've had the camera over a week and still haven't had to change the batteries.  That, in and of itself, is a Christmas miracle.  So now I have to figure out how to get those pictures on the computer and then you're in for a real treat.  A visual Christmas treat.  Oh the anticipation!!

But here's a couple others from the *blank* camera that I thought were cute. 

 And who says you can't shovel snow indoors?

Merry Christmas!!!