I can't believe it's over

Happy New Year!
Wow so much to catch up on.... We went to St. George to be with my mom for Christmas. We left about a week before hoping for beautiful sunny weather down south. Much to our dismay it was snow and rain the whole way down. It rained and rained the first part of the week. Luckily it cleared up around Wednesday or Thursday.

We traveled to Las Vegas to visit my grandma and aunt and uncle that live there. It was good to see them. My cousin also has a little boy about 3 weeks younger than Warren, so it was fun to see them interact with each other. Before we left Vegas we went to the Bellagio which is always decorated beautifully for Christmas.



When we got back to St. George my mom treated us all to dinner at a steakhouse called, Anasazi. Oh it was so delicious!!! They bring out your steaks on a heated volcanic rock, and you continue to cook it to your liking in front of you. They also serve several different kinds of cheese fondue. We had two types that were very delicious as well.

My nephew, Ben, just loves Warren. He played with him all week! It was so nice to have someone else around to entertain him! And of course Grandma enjoyed her time with the grand kids!


It was so nice once the weather cleared up. Barry and I played tennis for a little bit, and then we all went swimming! A Christmas Eve tradition in my family is that we get to open one gift which is always PJ's. Then we read the nativity story, Twas the Night Before Christmas, hang our stockings, and put out cookies for Santa. This year all the little kids got to open their Christmas Eve pajamas including Warren.

On Christmas we opened presents around 7...which poor Warren missed out on. He was not feeling very well the night before, so we let him sleep in. He had his own personal Christmas about 2 hours later! He doesn't quite have the hang of opening gifts yet...maybe next year! Although he did have fun playing with the bows. We bought a little santa suit for him last January that Barry had found on clearance: We have been dying to put it on him since he was born. We were crossing our fingers that it would fit, and luckily it fit perfectly!

The rest of the day was far from relaxing! We decided to host a Christmas dinner for people in my mom's ward who didn't have anyone to spend the holiday with. After breakfast everyone got to work getting ready for the dinner! We cooked a ham and turkey, a couple of different salads, stuffing, yams, potatoes...etc. We also made some cute little stockings that we filled with candy and hung for the guests. There were about 10 people that showed. Even though it was a lot of work it was so nice to be able to add a little glitter to their Christmas.

I loved the time with my family. It was so fun to be able to visit and play games.
We headed back on Monday. We made a stop in Utah to see Barry's brother's baby, who was born right before Christmas. It was also nice because we were able to see almost everyone in his family as well while we were there.
Even though we had definitely enjoyed our vacation time we were getting pretty antsy to be home. Our car was packed super tight. Every time we opened the back door stuff would fall out. For a few days after we got home Warren would throw a fit every time he had to get back in his car seat. Poor guy!
New Year's Eve we spent with some friends just playing games. Our electricity went out around 8:30 and didn't come back on for about an hour and a half. It was sooo cold!! Way to ring in the new year right?! Barry was trying to get our generator going and got it all set up seriously right as the power came back on. Like always Warren slept through the whole thing.