Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Christmas!
Christmas is my most favorite holiday ever! I am sure it probably has a lot to do with the fact that it was my Mom's favorite holiday as well.
We started our Christmas out with our annual tradition of going out to eat on Christmas Eve. The last several years we have gone to Texas Roadhouse, we try to have our good friend Brad be our server (if he is working) and we make sure to give him a super tip!
Christmas morning was chaotic as usual, but it was great fun! All the kids were so happy and polite. It feels like one of the best Christmases we've had!
Here is Cameron with all his Christmas presents
Kenzie with her haul
And Abby with all her stuff
I also made our traditional cinnamon rolls the day before so we could enjoy them Christmas morning after opening presents.
And one of the best presents was ALL THE SNOW!! I love having a White Christmas!
And of course we had to have our yearly picture with Mom at the cemetery.
We started our Christmas out with our annual tradition of going out to eat on Christmas Eve. The last several years we have gone to Texas Roadhouse, we try to have our good friend Brad be our server (if he is working) and we make sure to give him a super tip!
Christmas morning was chaotic as usual, but it was great fun! All the kids were so happy and polite. It feels like one of the best Christmases we've had!
Here is Cameron with all his Christmas presents
And of course we had to have our yearly picture with Mom at the cemetery.
December Part 2
I love family parties! I really do! Christmas time is always a great time for family parties too. It was great to have Dad and Laura in town for this party too. It will be a really sad day when we no longer have the annual McCullough Christmas party and talent show. I hope that we still have many years to go until that happens!
December Part 1
McKenzie had an AMAZING opportunity to sing with a professional singer. Alex Boye (he is an amazing LDS singer). Eagle Mountain won a contest he was putting on, so he came out to give a concert. Someone mentioned that our Middle School choir sang one of his song, so he invited them to sing it with them. I was such a great experience for all those kids! And Alex puts on a great concert.
I applied to get tickets to the First Presidency Christmas Devotional, and I was able to get 6 of them! Pug had to go out of town that Sunday (which never happens) so I asked Grandma and Grandpa to come with us! It was a great devotional. And how fun was it that all us girls were color coordinated?
We all went to Temple Square another time when Pug was home. I love seeing the lights, however, I could do without the insane amount of people there! I think maybe next year we will go AFTER Christmas! The lights will still be up, but there won't be so many people!
My parent's anniversary is December 8th. I love this picture of the obviously in love newly weds! It is still hard that Mom is gone, but because of this magical day back in 1976 my parents are sealed for time and all eternity. I will see Mom again, we will be a forever family.
And I saw this message on Facebook and just loved it.
I applied to get tickets to the First Presidency Christmas Devotional, and I was able to get 6 of them! Pug had to go out of town that Sunday (which never happens) so I asked Grandma and Grandpa to come with us! It was a great devotional. And how fun was it that all us girls were color coordinated?
We all went to Temple Square another time when Pug was home. I love seeing the lights, however, I could do without the insane amount of people there! I think maybe next year we will go AFTER Christmas! The lights will still be up, but there won't be so many people!
My parent's anniversary is December 8th. I love this picture of the obviously in love newly weds! It is still hard that Mom is gone, but because of this magical day back in 1976 my parents are sealed for time and all eternity. I will see Mom again, we will be a forever family.
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