Christmas 2012 time lapse

Christmas 2012 in 77 seconds.

Santa Pictures-What could they be asking for?

Becket is asking for a retro Christmas this year.  He wonders where all of his old toys have disappeared to, flying jet, R2D2 control, robotic dinosaur?



I'm guessing Gretchen desires a mansion, but she'll have to settle for what we got her.



And Micah wants anything that screams girl

Tomorrow we shall find out!

A Christmas Visit

We had a chance to visit Grandpa Harris on our way down to St. George. It was the best Christmas present to me because he is such a wonderful man.

I flat out asked him: "Grandpa, you've lived all this time, what's your advice to us?"

Grandpa, " Well, in the war I learned how to kill people for 3yrs and then I spent the rest of my life loving people. Just be happy.Don't wake up and decide who you're going to be mad at that day. We all have our weaknesses. Be happy and love each other."

 After he said that, there was a knock at the door and it was carolers on a hay wagon. Magical. This is him listening. It brought tears to my eyes. This man loves being with his family and he truly gets this earth life. 

Merry Christmas Grandpa Harris.


 

Date weekend

Mat's sister was able to take our kids for the weekend so we played. We got dumped on with snow so you know the only thing we know how to do in the snow is Xski.  Beautiful! Really beautiful when we saw the line going up little cottonwood.





Then we headed downtown to hunt out our eclectic shop. This time we found George's Garage. He's got a long beard and he's a longtime hoarder. They usually aren't able to part with their stuff and they price it a bit too high, but we were able to find some things for future projects you know how we like our projects! 








After,  we enjoyed some Indian food and a quiet house. As for the kids, they had more fun then they could stand. Gretchen learned how to fold Christmas trees out of old magazines and now our house is decorated with all 12 of them. She was unstoppable.