Christmas 2009!

Dan and I decided to stay home this year for Christmas morning. Now that we are in our house, we figured it was time to stay home and let Santa come to our house. (Every other year we have been with family). So, we had a quiet Christmas Eve. The kids had a blast making cookies and reindeer food. (Recipe for reindeer food: Quaker oats, red glitter, and silver glitter), and watched Christmas movies with the kids.

The kids woke up around 7:30am and were so excited that Santa found our house! The cookies were all gone and the reindeer ate the food! The kids couldn't hold back their enthusiasm! (AND Dan and I couldn't wait to see their faces!)

Here are a few pictures of the festivities.
Oaklyn asked for a computer from Santa, and Santa knew that Connelly would probably fight over Oaklyn's so he brought one for him too. (Santa is smart!) She also got make up, a few barbies, and a ton of art supplies (paper, markers, pencils, chalk...etc).
Connelly asked for a Nerf gun and was surprised to get TWO! He also got a transformer and a football. Grandpa Dave gave him a BYU football outfit. It is so cute! The back says "C. Ulrich" and his number is 66 (Dan's high school football number). CUTE idea huh!
Londyn asked Santa for "barbies" this year, but I must not have taken her picture with any of them. She got several barbies, a cleaning set and a sit and spin.
On Christmas day we headed to Salt Lake to meet up with Dan's family. It was fun to see everyone, as usual. Our family is growing! Soon Whitney and Ty will have a little boy to add to the mix! :)

To end the festivities we went to Holden for a fun dinner and sledding time with Grandpa Ken. The kids had a blast. I didn't think they would last very long since we live in St. George where we don't have snow, but they were out there for hours! Thanks Grandpa!
The only downfall? Coming home to a house that looked like a wrapping paper bomb went off inside!