Merry Christmas with the Greens

Our alternating Christmas and Thanksgiving schedule had us in St. George with my family this year.  My brother Jake and his family live there and we decided it was a central location for the Greens to gather.  We arrived last Tuesday just in time for the boys to head down to Las Vegas for the BYU bowl game against Oregon State.  The boys "froze their nuggets off" (as we say in my family) but at least they got to see a win!  While the boys were at the game, the kids and moms made a spectacular gingerbread house.

We spent most of our time lounging around and hardly preventing disastrous behavior from the 8 grandchildren.  We did get out for an afternoon of four-wheeling and the kids got plenty of play time with Grandpa.

Isn't it comforting that when things get busy, kids won't let themselves starve?  This is what I walked in on while we were preparing for our four-wheeling trip.  The parents were all in preparation mode and I guess the kids got hungry waiting.

 On Christmas Eve some of the kids participated in the reading of the Nativity story and as usually happens, there were more laughing adults than any reverence!  Aren't traditions wonderful?

 

Christmas morning was memorable.  Jonah was so excited to see what Santa had brought and especially that he had eaten the hodgepodge of treats he had picked for him the night before.  Mimi and Grandpa Green prepared some delicious pork spare ribs for dinner and after the kids crashed, we adults gathered around the puzzle table to finish the 1000 piece Noah's Ark puzzle we had started the day before.

My sweet Jonathan gave me a subscription to Runner's World fueling my excitement for next years running adventures.  I've got some goal-making to do...more on that later.

Mimi got all the girls matching Christmas skirts.  What beautiful children!

We hope you all had a Merry Christmas!