Merry Christmas Everyone!

We had such a wonderful Christmas this year.  I love that it fell on Sunday and we were able to hear Christmas messages and listen to beautiful music at church.  What a special way to really commemorate the birth of our Savior.  And, of course, there were lots of great presents to open after we got home from church.

Whitney was so excited to be given permission to rip.  She usually isn't allowed to rip paper or books or anything like that at home, so ripping the wrapping paper off the presents was a special treat.  Maybe we will have to wrap presents more often so Whitney can rip more.

There were only a couple of times when we had to stop Whitney from opening other peoples presents.  But she did get to open baby Rachel's gifts and some of mom and dad's as well.  I think that was her favorite part of Christmas.

Whitney enjoyed checking out the stockings.  She liked pulling out the treats and then putting them back in again so she could pull them back out.  It was pretty entertaining just watching her work.  The stocking is almost as big as Whitney, so she required a little assistance from Will to get the treats that were on the bottom. 

Here are all the kids on Christmas morning.

 Hooray for everybody being together.  It had been about a year since we were all together, so this was really fun.  In between opening presents we had some snacks - chips and dip and a veggie tray and crackers. 

After Christmas dinner we played some fun games.  I think everybody likes Apples to Apples.  Conner got a new game where you balance little chairs on top of each other; it sounds kind of weird, but it is actually pretty fun.  I was horrible at it though.  I just need more practice - lots and lots more practice.

Finally, since we had extra bodies, we asked Erin to take a family picture of the four of us.  This is our first picture all together.

Whitney has a little bit of red eye; my sister bought us photo shop though, so as soon as we get that all set up we will be able to fix up the pictures.  I am really excited about that because I like to take lots of pictures.

Anyway, I hope everyone had a great Christmas as well.  Lots of love to all of you from Cheney.