Christmas in Utah

I was going to break this post up but for the sake of not being too long I decided to just make it one post with lots of pictures. 

Christmas festivities in Utah started bright and early Christmas eve morning with the fantastic Cannon family breakfast.  Seriously best meal of the year in my opinion, everything always tastes SO good and the company is even better.  That Cannon family sure is a special one and I love chatting with cousins and family.

After the breakfast we headed to the movie "Frozen".  Cute Cute Cute!  So entertaining, and even better that Adalyn sat through the WHOLE thing.  We all loved it!

Christmas eve night we packed up and headed to Salt Lake for a Danish Christmas party with McKay's family.   


Adalyn loved opening a present from Santa there and dancing around the Christmas tree.  She kept telling Grandma Liz to sing more Christmas songs.

Adalyn loves her cousin Madison.  McKay's sister Jennifer is also SO helpful in entertaining Adalyn and helping out.  We were very thankful for their help since Addie was ALL over the place that night. 

Christmas night we slept in Evanston at McKay's Dad's house.  And out of 12 siblings we were the only ones there.  So weird since the house is usually busting at the seems!  The kids went to bed right away that night and the adults stayed up talking way too late.  Seriously threw off my sleep schedule for the rest of  the week. 

Christmas morning we enjoyed a quiet breakfast and then Preston Called from his mission in Michigan.  He sounded great and is really doing amazing things. :)  Other siblings showed up after breakfast and we opened gifts.  After gifts we ate a YUMMY lunch of crab.  Never had it before, but everyone loved it (except for maybe me, still not a fan of much sea food). 

Twins

Jensen "helping" uncle Jace with his long board. Or just trying to eat the tools. 

Christmas afternoon we packed up and headed back to Utah.  We got to my parents house just in time for Christmas dinner (lucky us).  Brent and Heather were there along with my grandma.  Such a relaxing evening spent with family. 

Christmas was especially fun this year with our two little cuties.  They love all of the toys (Jensen really loves the one in the picture above)  Thank you Thank you to our generous parents who gave us wonderful gifts and fed us yummy food all week.  We love you!

And I also want to include in this post that on Saturday the 28th we celebrated Christmas so more by going back to Evanston for a big family party.  The kids and daddy's all played out in the fields with the snowmobiles and sleds while the women went and toured Jennifer and Leslie's new homes that they bought there in town. 

4 little girls in the sled.  Too cute!

Our kids were pretty tired from the week of parties that Saturday so they were cranky and fussy, but we still had fun and it was great to chat with everyone.  I hope you all had a very merry Christmas!  This year was definitely one of the best that we have had together if not THE best.  We REALLY enjoyed it! 

Up next- Jensen's 1st birthday! 

  

    

Christmas in Idaho 2013

Hello!  Did you have a good Christmas?  I did I did!  But we are now home again and I have a million posts up my sleeve.  So get ready because I will be posting A LOT.  :)

Christmas at our house was on Monday December 23rd.  I was super excited to see the kids open their gifts from santa.  Also thanks to planning ahead we were in bed by 9:30 the night before so no late nights for us. 

Both kids slept through the night (Christmas miracle).  Adalyn woke up first and came straight to our room so she had no idea that santa had come.  We quickly woke up Jensen and headed out to the living room to see what santa had brought.

Waiting to go and see their presents

What Santa brought...

It took Adalyn a few minutes to understand what was going on, but she soon got it and started opening any gift she could get her hands on.  Jensen could have cared less about opening a present, but he loved stealing Adalyn's toys once they were opened. 

This year Adalyn got a wooden cradle for her dolls and some dollhouse people and a doll house van.  Maybe in the future Santa will make a Doll house for her.  :)

This year Jensen got a huge dump truck and some sports balls. 

They both also got an outfit and a couple books.  They loved it all and are excited to have new toys to play with. 

I am excited to get all of the toys organized into some new boxes/system. 

Mommy and Daddy also got some fun stuff too.  I got some clothes and a stainless steal frying pan.  McKay got some emergency preparedness things and a personal calendar for his office.  

So grateful to have such a fun morning with the family.  After we ate a nice breakfast, we packed up and headed to Salt Lake for our Christmas vacation. 

 

Have a Holly Jolly Christmas!

Merry Christmas from the Pace Family!

p.s. If you feel bad that you didn't get a Christmas card from us, don't because we did not send them this year.  Had to let something go this year and Christmas cards was it.  But thank you to everyone who sent us one this year.  So fun to see everyone's family pictures. :)



Tonight is Christmas Eve for our family.  Tomorrow morning Santa will visit our home and after opening gifts in morning we will be heading out for our Christmas fun in Salt Lake and Evanston.  I am SO excited!  Seriously ready for some family time and Christmas fun! 

We have an insane schedule for the next week including lots of driving and Jensen's first birthday party thrown in for good measure.  I stressed about our plans a lot before, but the past few days I have felt really good about everything.  We are going and doing what we need to be doing and I happy to spend so much time with family.  With that being said I really hope our DVD player in the van doesn't act up again because it would really help the hours pass in the car.  :)


McKay has had work off since last Thursday.  After getting 2 crowns on at the dentist (4 hours later)he was all ours for a whole week (say what?!).  We love having him home and are so grateful he gets to spend so much time with us during the holidays. 

We hope you all have a Merry Christmas this year! 

P.P.S. Guess who will be one in five days?!  This kid will :)



4 Years :)

Last Sunday was our 4 year wedding Anniversary.  Happy Anniversary to us!

Quick flash back because I love wedding photos...

Thanks Cioco Photography!

Each year we usually half way forget about our anniversary since it is so close to Christmas.  We never budget anything in for it, because once again everything goes to Christmas.  We really do love each other, but we aren't so awesome at planning fun anniversaries.  I didn't even blog about our Anniversary last year because all we did was a little before baby date.  Nothing special.   

But this year McKay did plan.  He surprised me with a over night trip to a hotel in Salt Lake.  Yay!  I felt loved. 

We packed up and headed out Friday morning (he even took the day off just for us).  We were on the road for about 20 minutes when Adalyn threw up.  Gross!  We cleaned all up and headed down the road for a little bit till she threw up AGAIN and again. This time we cleaned her up and called my mom (she was our babysitter) and said Adalyn was sick and we were just going to turn around and go home.  boo! 2 hrs. later we were home and all feeling a little blue.  McKay and I were scared that she was really sick and that we might all get it.  Hate throwing up!  But in the end she had food poisoning and just threw up a few more times and then was good the next day.

So in the end we spent our anniversary at home, with the kids, watching movies.  We did get a few more things done for Christmas cleaned the whole house, and wrapped all the presents so it wasn't totally un successful (but definitely not the relaxing weekend we were excited about).  But McKay gave me flowers and we each got a gift of choice.  He got a trimmer/ edger whatever those things are called ($7 at a thrift store) and I got some new boots on a super awesome sale.  They came in the mail yesterday and I LOVE them.

Here are some snap shots to document our 4th Anniversary...

Matching shirts and all :)

Not the best anniversary yet, but we are going to go on a little getaway over Christmas break so we will get our much anticipated mini vacation after all.  yay!

Love our life together and love being married to McKay.  He is wonderful to me and our family.  Here's to another great year!

Want to take a look at past anniversaries?
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#2
(forgot to blog about #3)



   

   

Temple Square

On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, McKay went to Evanston to help his brother with his Eagle Scout Project.  The kids and I stayed at my parents house while he went.  When he was done helping we met him in Salt Lake and we went to see the Christmas lights on Temple square. 

The weather was pretty nice that evening, but it was really crowded too.  

Of course the lights were beautiful as always.  Perfect way to end our Thanksgiving weekend in Salt Lake. 

Oh how the kids adore grandma and papa

Oh how Corinne Adores Stu :)

Family picture.  Kind of want to make it a tradition to take a picture here every year...

Tired tired kids by the end of the night.  Just in time for a 3 hr. drive home.  :)