Our Early Christmas

Christmas came early for us this year. We celebrated on Saturday, December 12. Jeffrey woke up at his usual time and had me come down stairs to get him a bowl of cereal. Once Tricia came down stairs we began to open presents.

At the last General Conference the new Spanish Bible was announced. Tricia got me a new pair of Spanish scriptures as my gift.

Of course we started the opening with out stockings. Santa brought us some candy, funny glasses, puzzles and coloring books. We all put on our traditional new set of pajamas the night before.

While my parents were in town a few weeks ago we all went to see the double feature of Toy Story and Toy Story 2. Jeffrey enjoyed the movies so well that we bought him a Buzz Lightyear figure as his gift this year.

This is the first year that Jeffrey seems to fully understand the idea of opening presents.

Tricia had asked for two games for the Nintendo Wii, which we ended up playing for part of the morning.

Jeffrey was a little disturbed at Mom's nose job and took immediate action to correct it.

Jeffrey offered me a slice of his mandarin that was at the toe of his stocking.

After the gifts were all opened we had a full Christmas breakfast with eggs, bacon and muffins.

I had heard about a German Christmas market taking place in down town Denver. When we arrived we were a little disappointed. After attending the Nuremberg Christmas market, the largest in the world, it is not easy for Denver, CO to keep up. We did have a good time and realized just how much we enjoyed out Christmas times in Germany.