Holiday recap

It was fun this year to see how much Kendal enjoyed Christmas. She learned all about Santa and how we celebrate Jesus' birthday on Christmas. We put up the tree the first weekend in December. Kendal loved putting on her ornaments and has loved playing with them since. We have also had our advent calendar and  narrated nativity ornament that Kendal has loved. Our ward Christmas party was the first week of December. As primary Chorister i was supposed to teach a couple of songs to the kids for the program. At the ward party i ended up being put in charge of the program. It wasn't much, but the primary kids did well. Kendal takes after Casey with her love for Christmas music. We played Christmas music a lot (It reminded me of my Papa). Kendal learned the whole Rodolph song this year, and still remembers Jingle Bells from last year. We went to see the tree lighting at City Hall and attended a Christmas program at the High School. Kendal spent the whole Children's portion of the program dancing. (Casey's students told him the following day that they enjoyed Kendal's dancing) We were all excited for the holidays because that meant a break from school for Casey and an escape from Challis.

Friday the 21st we made Our way to Raft River to spend Christmas with Casey's family. We haven't been all together for a few months. Friday night we had almost everyone there; on Saturday the rest joined us and we were all together for the next couple of days. It was a busy / active house for a couple of days, but so so much fun. We made cookies, went shooting, played games, exchanged gifts, ate good food, and just enjoyed some good family time together. Since Keegan's birth last month we now have eight grand babies in the family. (Kendal is the oldest at 3 years). Kendal loves her cousins. David, and Bryker are her play buddies. I think David got a little weary of kendal, but all in all they enjoyed each other. Becca, Jaxson, and Hunter did their own thing, and  Pete and Keegan got loves from everyone. It was crazy trying to get  the kids to nap and Saturday night was interesting with all of us there. I love the fact that the cousins are so close in age. It makes visits so much fun. The only downer to the whole vacation was that Casey was sick, and shared his cold with the family. There were a few days where Casey was just miserable and unfortunately others were too.

 Christmas day it was just us and Casey's parents (Cody came later after he had worked a Christmas shift at Sunshine Terrace). Kendal was up around seven excited tho see the goodies Santa brought. We started opening presents and Peter threw up on his gifts (So much for good memories from his first Christmas : /). The poor guy spent the rest of the day feverish, sad, and sleeping. Kendal got a camera from Santa, a dress up Minnie Mouse from us, and a few other things. We spent the rest of Christmas taking it easy, playing, and eating sweets.

The day after Christmas we ate lunch with Rhett, Aria, and their two sweet girls. Because we didn't feel all that well we didn't get see much of them, but it was nice to catch up with each other.

Peter had a doctors appointment Friday so we headed to Logan to spend New Years weekend with my family.

( Peter is now just over 15 pounds, he is 26 inches tall)

Friday we got to see my whole family. Kendal had fun with Campbell and her aunts uncles and grandparent's. Friday night was the Loosle extended family party. We were fewer in numbers but it was nice to see my family that could come. New year's Eve took us to my brothers house. We played games (including our annual bingo : ) and stuffed our faces with goodies. Kendal stayed up way to late but had fun.

Besides being sick it was a great holiday break. We had so much fun with family and were spoiled with gifts, food, and family time. We're back in Challis finishing up the break. Casey has practice and a game this weekend, we'll put away Christmas, and have some more down time for a few days.