Family Christmas Party

Every year my parents have family over for dinner on Christmas Day. 

Things definitely get a little loud, so we send the kids downstairs away from our noise...

Look at this bunch of criminals...

More troublemakers... j/k

We spend most of the time at the table talking to family.

Here is the overflow from the table...

Things are always so serious...

We had to take advantage of the moment.  We had everyone together.

Christmas is always a busy day, but we love it...

Opening Gifts at Grandma's & Grandpa's

Everyone came over so we could open the presents from my parents.

Oh the excitement and anticipation on everyone's faces...

My parents haven't let us down yet.  We were all spoiled.  

Corbin had to show off his RC Jeep.

We had such a great time.  The only problem was that we were given more stuff than we could take back home with us.  We had to leave some with my parents to bring later.

Sunday Best

The boys looked so cute in their Christmas clothes.

They never stay still or happy long enough for good pictures.

I had to get one of Jeremy in his new suit that he got from his amazing wife...

It isn't too often we get pictures of our family all dressed up...

Bus

Corbin has a fascination with buses, so he was more than overjoyed to go on a bus ride while we were in Utah.  He was really trying to hide it, but I think you can see some of the excitement on his face...

I don't think he stopped smiling the entire time...

Hunstman Family Christmas/Birthday Party

We had our annual Huntsman Family Christmas Party and Brandon's.

Patty did Christmas Bingo.

Hudson preferred to hang out with Natalie.

The cousins were able to exchange gifts.  

Hudson was then able to open some birthday presents.  That is Hudson in the middle...

He had a lot of help...

Jeremy always says that he sees Brooklyn in Hudson.

Below is a picture with both of them.

Had to show off the presents.

We then had some cake and ice cream before the adults had the while elephant gift exchange.  The adults were supposed to play Minute To Win It that Tara had brought.  We were unable to play because I brought the gift that just keeps on giving with me(the flu).  The boys had already had it so I thought I was safe and ended up getting it the day after we got here.  It proceeded to go through almost everyone by Christmas Eve.

Hudson's excitement was gone as soon as the food was gone...

We have learned to really appreciate the times that we have to get together as a family.

It isn't that often now that we don't live in Utah.

Gingerbread House

We had promised Corbin that we would build a gingerbread house for Christmas and forgot until we were at my parents' house in Utah. Corbin said that it couldn't be Christmas unless we had built a gingerbread house and snow on the ground...

Notice the look of concentration on the boys' faces...

Corbin was so proud of his results.

We were able to do the gingerbread house, but couldn't promise the snow...

Pratt Family Christmas/Birthday Party

We got together with the family close to us to celebrate Christmas and three birthdays.  Erin and
Chad had us over.  We celebrated birthdays for Hudson, Jake, and Striker.  We had an awesome dinner and then had some Minute to Win it games Erin put together...

Hudson is lucky to have such great cousins...

Last year we weren't able to participate in the Christmas Party.  Hudson was being born.  Grandma Pratt and Uncle Robert were such good sports and tried the games.  This game is where you try to get a cookie from your forehead to your mouth without using your hands.

I won the golf ball stacking contest.  After we had moved on to other games, Jeremy's dad got three.  Too little too late...

Corbin gave the Life Saver Stacking contest a try.

I didn't think that there was quite the competitive nature in Jeremy's family, but learned otherwise.  Burdette won the Life Saver Stacking contest...

Burdette wasn't quite as lucky/good at the noodle game.  Jeremy took Burdette and Robert.

After the games, we had some presents and then a White Elephant Gift Exchange.

McKenna and Hudson had the same reaction to Hannah getting goldfish...

Erin let us put Hudson in a carseat to try to give him some birthday cake.  He got the littlest bit on his hands and had had enough. 

This  is what I love about the Holidays and family.  We were so lucky to be able to get together with those close to us before going to Utah for Christmas. 

Christmas Tree

I had to get a picture of the boys the last Sunday before we left for Utah.

Jeremy says that our house looked like Christmas threw up all over our house.  

Notice our Elf on a Shelf above the tree?  That was a life saver this year.

Decorating The Kids Tree

We let Corbin do most of the decorating of the Christmas tree we have upstairs.  We started decorating the day before Thanksgiving and decorated in parts so that it wasn't all done in one piece.

Hudson just wanted to get into the decorations and play with them.

Corbin was very specific about the placement of bulbs and the proximity of the same color bulbs.  I think he gets that from me...

The highlight for him was to put the star on top.  I think he's seen too many Christmas shows.

Hudson was in awe of all of the lights.  He didn't really want to touch the ornaments.