Christmas!

Christmas has come and gone.  Crazy how that happens.  So much going on, so much to do, and then poof - its over.  I just took our Christmas decorations down.  Usually I leave them up until New Years, but for some reason this year I was ready to be done with them.  Maybe its because I just want it to be time to go to Hawaii.  Yes, that was our main gift for Christmas this year.  Last year I decided I'd had enough buying more junk for my kids.  They have plenty and can hardly think of what to ask for (well Sage can, but she's special).  So we talked to the kids about it and decided to do a family trip to Hawaii.  We told them they would get one present from Santa and that was about it.  And that's what happened.  They got other things, but it was all stuff they needed for the trip anyway.  It definitely made Christmas a lot easier.

Anyway, Christmas Eve we went to Dad's for our traditional Spjute Christmas Eve.  It was good fun.  We had delicious food, went caroling, did talents, the nativity, and testimonies.  Most excellent.  And then we drove home in the snow.  It's only snowed twice this year and both times has been when we had to drive home from family stuff.  I guess we should plan more trips because we pretty much have no snow.

Christmas day was very low key with just our family.  Like I stayed in my new Christmas pajamas most of the day.   In other words, it was awesome.  We told the kids they couldn't wake us up until 7:00.  At exactly 7:00 Sage started yelling.  That girl was excited.  So we opened presents, had a yummy breakfast, and hung out.  After lunch we went skiing.  Not awesome conditions, but still fun.  Well, fun until we lost Sage for 30 minutes.  We told Sage and Kate to head to the bottom of the run by the parking lot while we did one more run.  Somehow they lost each other and when we got to the bottom Kate was there but no Sage.  She wasn't by the car, we couldn't find her anywhere.  My phone has been having issues lately and picked this moment to die.  This was a problem because my number is the one she knows.  We were headed up to ski patrol when Jake got a call telling him where she was.  She did the right thing finding a ski instructor to help her, and she was remarkably calm when we got her.  None of the usual Sage drama.  Phew.  Kind of stinks not knowing where your kid is for 30 minutes.  Thank heavens everything ended well and we were able to make it home to do more of nothing:)

And I have no idea why some of these pictures have a play button, but I'm too lazy to fix it.

Jake was given a lot of stuff from his subs.  A lot.

Our talent

Cute baby Claire

Grandpa's talent

Nativity fun

Christmas pajamas

How Jake spent Christmas morning

The aftermath

Fun game we got from grandma and grandpa