I am glad that I will get this post up before Christmas next year!
We were very fortunate to have a hospital in Idaho pay for our trip out west to spend time with our families for the holiday.
Kylan interviewed for a job but I will get to all of that later.
9 out of 11 siblings were able to be at my parents for Christmas Eve. It reminded me a lot of the Christmas Eve's I had growing up.
Always a lot of people, food and laughs.
All the kids opened their Christmas p.j.'s Keion's were borderline too small.
Ok. They were too small!
Crosby in his awesome outfit. Love it!
Someone is ready to party!
Max loved the reindeer on Aunt Mikkel's foot.
Keion, is your butt hungry??
Everyone in their p.j.'s!
We had a gift exchange where everyone brought an As Seen On T.V. to exchange. It was such a fun idea.
Jared got the broncos snuggie and by his attire do you think anyone was more deserving?
Unfortunately I don't have a pic of it but Aunt Kristi stole that snuggie from Jared...she's ALMOST as big of fan of those broncos!!
Josh is sporting the man slimming tee...instant 6 pack people!
My mom put little bags together for the younger kids.
They were full of all sorts of goodies. My Grandma J would always put bags together for us growing up and I am happy to see the tradition carry on.
My mom will hate that I put this pic on here but oh well.
We gave my parents their present from some of the siblings. You have to know that the box could have had toilet paper in it and she still would have cried.
It should explain why all the girls in our family are emotional...and we are ALL chain reaction criers. If one starts you can bet before long we will all be in tears!
We gave my parents money to go buy a new furniture set for their front room.
As Keion would say, "make it rain, Grandma!"
Beckham loved the karaoke microphone...courtesy the gift exchange.
Christmas morning.
Yes, he got a pillow pet...and LOVED IT!
When I saw this dvd at toys r us I HAD to have it.
Keion would watch this Barney movie over and over again when he was little which means all of us watched it just about as much.
I think Mikkel was super jealous.
Yes, the morning was going that well!
I got a new watch.
Someone was super spoiled this year.
This was one of the best gifts we gave.
We are such suckers as parents and we knew Keion was going to love them.
Funny story.
When we were leaving the airport after picking up our car rental we ran over one of our bags that we forgot to load.
It had some valuable items in it that got destroyed, like our ipad.
The thing was, the bottom half of the ipad still worked.
My sister Mikkel wanted one for Christmas so we let my parents wrap it and give it to her as a joke.
Mikkel thought it was legit for just a few seconds when she realized it was the broken one. It was sort of a mean joke but she is always a good sport and I love this pic.
Keion and his Uncle Jared.
I will have to write about the job interview in another post.
It was less like an interview and more of a recruiting trip. More on that later.
