Before we flew out to San Diego, we got together with Brad's family and celebrated Christmas a few days early. Sunday December 22 was a very busy day! It started with our ward Sacrament Christmas Program, which I was in charge of. Lots of time and effort went into it, and it went really well. I was so pleased... and relieved! Then we joined Brad's family for the rest of the day. We decided to visit a few residents at a local retirement home and give them some "Christmas cheer" instead of gifts for each other. We took them a blanket, and a few goodies and visited with them for a few minutes. We were all surprised that Owen absolutely loved it. He HAD to give each person their "gift" and he even insisted on singing a few Christmas songs he had learned at preschool for them. It was so sweet to see him open up to them!
After our visits, we went back and let the boys open their gifts. Most of the clothes/toys/etc. that Porter has are second hand from Owen, there aren't many things he's gotten for just him. He was so excited about his new Dusty activity center! He played with it the rest of the night. Owen was excited to get his new "camping" truck & trailer just like Papa!
The rest of us tried our hand at gingerbread houses. We had fun teaming up and seeing what each couple built. Brad and I made the Oquirrh Mountain temple. Brad scaled it a little large, but after an emergency run to the neighbor for more graham crackers we were back in business!
The boys got some cute new PJ's from Grammy and Papa and helped us finish off the graham crackers.
It was a fun night with our family!
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