I love taking our family picture in front of the Christmas tree every year too.
A little bit of snow makes it always feel a bit more Christmasy.
Jenny loved the snow so much that when we had to go in, she cried really hard.
Tessa loves dressing up. Getting into the Christmas spirit, Tess is dressed up as a rudolf.
Then we went to literally the best ward Christmas party I have ever attended. They had this polar express train made out of cardboard.
They had all these different stations for the kids with these really fun activities. One station was a write a letter to Santa station.
At another station, we made Christmas tree ornaments out of pipe cleaners, which was fun. They had this other station where kids could make reindeer food by putting oats, glitter, sugar, etc in a ziploc bag. After we made it Tessa wanted to feed the reindeer right away. Santa had already arrived at the party and I think she thought he had his reindeer with him - reasonable - how else could he have made it there from the North Pole? I explained that the reindeer weren't there but that she could give the reindeer food to Santa to give to the reindeer when he got back to the North Pole. She agreed and we got our pretty much first ever non-crying picture with Santa.
Tessa loved all the different activities, and I had a lot of fun with it too.
We did a Christmas party with David's family on the Saturday before Christmas. Then on Christmas Eve we had a nice church service. Tessa got to be an angel.
Tessa was really excited to set out milk and cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve. The note reads "For Santa".
We did Christmas morning just with us. Opening presents and stopping to play as we opened, which was fun.
After doing Christmas in Utah, we drove to Washington for Christmas with my family, meeting my sister Courtney's new baby, and my sister Kaitlin's wedding. It was definitely busy with all we had going on and add in the fact that there were something like 21 people all under one roof with 5 babies two and under, and it was pretty much pandemonium. There was pretty much always at least one baby crying during the night. I think my dad set up a sleeping bag and slept in the laundry room at one point. It was nuts.
Tessa absolutely loved playing with her cousins though.
Jenny seemed to enjoy playing along side with cousins.
Jenny was funny though. Being around so many babies younger than her she was very adamant about insisting that she was "baby". She's called herself that for a while but being around all the other babies it's like she wanted to claim that she was the one "true" baby of the group of them.
The girls loved getting to spend lots of time with uncle Zach too of course. It was so cute to hear Jenny learn how to make the "Z" sound over our Washington trip and say it for the first time so she could say "Zach".
It was great to get to meet Courtney's new baby. She was so little. You forget how little they are when they're first born.
Christmas with my family was really good. We did our annual nativity. Tessa and Jenny were the shepherds while David and I were sheep though in their costumes my kids probably looked my like hipsters than shepherds.
And then opening presents of course was really fun.
Then we also had Kaitlin's bridal shower too which was a lot of fun. Kaitlin and I did Courtney's dress and accidentally spent too much time on the top and ran out of time leaving Courtney in a mini-skirt wedding dress - sorry Court - lol.
Then the day before and day of Kaitlin's wedding were busy but really good. It was really cool to get to all work together as a family setting everything up, etc that goes with a wedding.
Inside Anderson family joke - Zach is filling in for Dad here.
It was a really nice day and really beautiful to see Kaitlin and Josiah so happy and in love. It was definitely a busy Christmas season but it was really good.
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