The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

I really do think that Christmas time is the most wonderful time of the year! People seem to be just a little kinder and gentler at Christmas time. It is a busy time though. Wed. night we hosted a dinner party for a few of our neighbors then Friday night Kim and I with a couple of our neighbors had the privilege of attending the Christmas concert that the Choir does in the conference center. The special guests this year were Jane Seymore and Nathan Gunn. It was amazing and we really enjoyed it! We also went to dinner at the Lion House Pantry and checked out all the lights on Temple Square. It was a fun night.

Then Saturday morning we went to our Ward Christmas party. It was up the canyon in a beautiful lodge with picture windows and a roaring fire in the fireplace. The decorations were very festive. The atmosphere was very Christmasy (Is that a word?) Breakfast was delicious and Santa even came! We had 4 of our 5 children with us and 7 of our 8 grandchildren which made the morning even more fun.

The two cuties below are always so excited to see each other.

After breakfast the kids had fun decorating ginger bread men. Okay I had fun decorating one too.

Sunday all the family came to dinner and we had a special visitor from the North Pole come! I am always trying to get a good grandkids picture and all things considered I thing the one below with Santa isn't too bad. You can see every ones face right?

Below are the kids who were not afraid to sit on Santa's lap. Warren was just a little excited.

Below is my oldest daughters family.

My son's family.

April and her girls.

My babies with Santa.

We thought we'd get a picture with the girls but some little people kind of drifted into the picture with us.

Us with our not so little kiddos.

After our kids all left we attended our neighbors Christmas open house. This morning I went to Eliza's preschool Christmas program. Busy, busy, but fun,fun!