Christmas Eve

Christmas eve we went to a Christmas part at Rebeca Wilson's house, the Wilson's oldest child. We had a really nice time. There was good food and we did a white elephant gift exchange. When we went back home we opened up our Christmas PJ's.

Luke opening up his girl PJ's

Alan sleeps in basketball shorts and I didn't get him new ones last year, so he was so excited to get some this year.

Luke's white elephant gift
Luke, the Wilson's grandson, with one of the weirder white elephant gifts

Jesse Wilson with one of the white elephant gifts we brought

Natalie Wilson, Molly Wilson and Valerie

Leah and Rebeca Wilson

Christmas blunders

We had three Christmas blunders this year.

1. We bought our real Christmas tree the week after Thanksgiving. One week after we got it home it stopped drinking water. We forgot to get a fresh cut on it, so by the time Christmas rolled around our tree was petrified, it still was green though.

2. I bought Luke 2 pairs of PJ's for Christmas eve, the ones I had him open were Winnie the pooh snow flake PJ's. Well, when I was putting them on we notice that there was some pink on the pants and then when I put the shirt on the neck of the shirt was pink. Alan checked the packaging and sure enough they were girl PJ's, so Luke spent Christmas morning in girl PJ's.

3. Christmas eve night Luke woke up at 1:30 and refused to go back to bed in his crib. I didn't want him in bed all night with us, so he screamed for about a half hour while we tried to get him to sleep on the floor in our room. He finally did, but of course at some point he did end up in our bed. On top of that some one was having a fiesta party right out side our window at three in the morning. We basically got no sleep Christmas eve night and Alan still got us up at 7 to open presents.

Christmas weather

Okay so for all of those people who have been complaining about it snowing where they live and how cold it is all I have to stay to you is, that's how the weather is suppose to be in December and especially for Christmas.
It was a whopping 80 degrees here yesterday. It is not suppose to be 80 degrees in December this is so wrong. We have had some cold days, we did have an ice storm one day and the high is only suppose to be 48 today and 42 tomorrow, so it does get cold here, which has changed my feelings about living here, but according to the weather report on Christmas eve it will be 74 and on Christmas day it will be 77 can you believe that. I really don't want Rexburg weather, but I would gladly take some kind of snow or cold weather for Christmas.

USAA Christmas party

Saturday night Alan and I went to Alan's work party at the Alamo Dome, a big arena in down town San Antonio. USAA chartered buses to drive us down town. There was good food and awesome entertainment. USAA hired Lone star and Sticks to play. We had a great time.

Our Rock Star Luke

The sweetest husband in the world

If you all remember a while back I lost the diamond to my ring. The diamond and all the prongs had just broken off. Well this past week I actually lost my ring, my entire ring! I had been happy earlier saying at least I have the original band. But I went and lost that too. Actually I was pretty sure Luke had taken it, so I have been not so happy with Luke this week.

Well my sweet, sweet husband Surprised me this morning with an early Christmas present. My ring, with a new diamond and prongs!

Decking the halls

We finally finished decorating our house this week. I don't think the picture do our decorations justice though because you don't get the full affect of seeing them all together. It feels so warm and christmasy in our home, but when we go outside and its 75 degrees I don't feel so christmasy any more. It feels wierd to go outside and see decoration up when its warm out and there is now snow, but last night we got a big cold front and the weather man said there could be a chance of snow! There was no snow but we did have an ice storm last night! This is our first year having a christmas tree because we have always been a way for christmas. The nativity set is new too, my mom bought me the Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus piece last year and Alan and I decided to add to it.