Christmas 2008

Tatum enjoying the mini golf set she and Tayson received.  She's enjoying taking it apart.

Lovin' her new shades

We can't quite decide what happened with our trampoline.  The elves were setting it up and it decided to bow up like a pringle (they were pretty sure they followed the instructions exactly).  They tried to fix it and here are the results.  Two bent bars(maybe Santa tried to jump on it).   They were probably pretty tired by 2:30 AM to take it down.  Needless to say, we had to take it down and we're going to get replacement parts.  We really hope it was not operator error and we don't have to pay for the parts.

Tayson got two really cool hero posters.  This one is the army of Helaman and the other is Samuel the Lamanite on the city wall with arrows flying at him.  They are awesome.  We're really excited to hang them up.

Tayson got me this really cute heart necklace and earrings.  He says it's because he loves me.  How sweet.  I love my robe too.  I think I'm going to wear it everyday.  Jay says it looks flattering on me too, a definite plus.

Jay got a bunch of clothes and some really nice shoes that he absolutely loves.  He bought himself a couple of toys the beginning of the month so that's why he doesn't have any here.

Tayson got a couple of Batman lego sets and he loves them.

Tayson was way too excited opening this Indiana Jones legos, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Temple set.  This is what he asked Santa for and he was very specific.  He and Jay set up the 929 piece set and he has been playing with it constantly.  It has a lot of moving parts and he watched the movie and moved the parts that matched while it was playing.  

This is on Christmas Eve.  Tayson, as Joseph, and Jordyn, as Mary, did such a great job.  They look so sweet looking at their new baby Jesus.

This is Jaylee as the angel.  She was the only one with lines and she did an excellent job.

This is a video of Tatum opening her baby doll.  I'm sorry it's so dark.  She is so excited.  I don't think you can see her shaking.  She loves baby dolls.  What a girl.

We had such a great Christmas this year.  It was wonderful to have Jay home with us.  Christmas Eve we invited our friends Brian and Cassie Layton over with their girls, Jordyn, Jaylee and Jara.  The kids acted out the Christmas story while we read it from the scriptures.  On Christmas morning the kids woke up at around 8:30.  Hooray!!!  I know we appreciated that.  We a had a great time opening gifts and putting together lego sets.  At 3:00 we went over to our friend's house, The Stokes Family, and had a great dinner.  We then shot each other with nerf guns and rocked out on rockband.