Christmas 2012

Yes, it's the Christmas post! We had a FANTASTIC Christmas this year. We were super lucky because we got to host Phil's brother Richard and his family for a week and a half. It was so much fun (and very crazy) to have two Bobo brothers and four little Bobo girls running around. It was up to Jenni and me to keep the house from falling down around our ears. :) Well, I wish I had more pictures, but I'll share what I do have.

The girls both fell in love with their Uncle Richard. Amy especially. I don't think that I've ever seen her take to somebody so fast.

My girls love to look out the window in the living room. Here, they're watching the snow fall outside. And Lacey is making a very silly face. 

Daddy got an iPad for Christmas from work. At first he wasn't quite sure what to do with it, since we already have a touch-screen tablet (Android), but it only took a few days for him to decide that his new toy was pretty cool.

One evening, we went to visit Grandmother Bobo and see the lights on temple square in Salt Lake. It was very cold, but we bundled up and had a nice outing.

 And I even got someone to take a picture of me with my sweet Lacey. I'm just too lazy to rotate it.

 Sometime in December (I don't remember what day, and my pictures are a little out of order, I think) it snowed just enough to make a snowman. So out went Lacey and Daddy to pile up some snow and stick a hat and face on it. Lacey was very proud, and even liked to laugh at it when it started getting melty and slumpy.

 Christmas day we got up nice and early to see what Santa brought. We were so lucky, because he brought Lacey and Amy their very own trampoline. It just barely fits in our basement. When the weather warms up, it will go outside, but it's been a great inside toy for letting off some excess energy.

 Lacey opens her stocking.

 Look at that huge stack of presents for Lacey! Someone must love her.

 Lacey got a bunch of bean bags in her stocking. She loves them.

 When I saw this Agent P ski mask at the store, I couldn't pass it up.

 Daddy and his haul.

Later that day, we had a whole big crowd of Bobos show up at our house for dinner and a gift exchange. That's a lot of aunts, uncles, and cousins, and a couple of grandparents. It was pure craziness, but I loved every moment of it. Throughout the day, though, we had been trying to get my brother (Elder Welker, currently serving and LDS mission in Brazil) on to video chat. Well, Elder Welker had been trying to get the video chat to work on his end. And of course, he got it to work at the exact same time that dinner was supposed to start at my house. I've decided, though, that it worked out better for me, because I just went and hid in my bedroom and let someone else take care of everything. We had everyone in my family in our video chat--my parents in SC, my sister in AK, and my other brother and I here in UT. Way cool. I love technology.

 After that craziness, we all deserved a rest.


And that was our Christmas! Can't wait til the next one. :)