An Amazing Break!

Christmas break this year is fantastic so far. And it will most likely be fantastic for the rest of the break. Even though I caught a cold a couple days before Christmas and it's just now going away, I am still very happy.

My family (Amanda, Sami, Mark, and Audree) came to Idaho and spent about a week of Christmas break with us. My brothers, Craig and Keith, spent Christmas day with us and parts of Christmas Eve. For Christmas Eve we, like everybody else, have traditions to keep. We always go to my Grandma Bassett's house and eat a huge dinner, then go downstairs for our lovely nativity play put on by the children. We make our way back upstairs into the front living room and have our "talent show". This year we had a variety of stories, singing, and I think my aunt played the violin. We went home and we all got to open our presents from Grandma Bassett. We all got comfortable pajamas, and were extremely excited to put them on! After a while we all went to bed, tired from the long day.

Christmas morning we had to wake up at six because my brother, Craig, had to work and nine that morning (and having eleven people to open presents (12 if you count millie who had two presents) it takes a while...). Sami and Mark were very tired from the night before (Audree had a hard time sleeping here) and I felt so bad for them to have to wake up that early. We all headed downstairs and sat where our stockings were on the couches. We opened up our presents and thanked our parents and family members and we were done about eight or so. My dad made breakfast and we were happy to eat :) We played with our new presents until noon when we left for my Grandma Spencer's house. We stayed there until night playing with our cousins and family members.

Amanda, Sami, Mark, and Audree left yesterday to go back home to Utah. The whole week they were here, I played with Audree and my mom said she was basically connected to my hip :) It was a lot of fun which made it sad to see them all go :(