We have had such a wonderful Christmas season...and it's not over yet! Tomorrow we leave to visit Calvin's family in Nevada. Here are some pictures of what we've done so far...to start out, we went to our ward Christmas party. Camden had fun seeing Santa and the only thing he said he wanted when Santa asked him what he wanted for Christmas was a candy-cane (the treat Santa was handing out :)Camden also had fun decorating sugar cookies. I couldn't get him to look away long enough to catch a picture. I love how he is smiling though!
On the Sunday before we left, we got up and had our own Christmas morning! Santa Claus brought Camden his own Ford F-150 to drive and didn't want us to have to try to bring it back from our vacation, so he came early! Camden and Dad in their new Christmas pajamas-a Christmas Eve tradition from my family.
Camden was excited to leave a note, some milk, and a cookie for Santa Claus. I don't have any pictures of our Christmas morning because I was using the video camera. Needless to say, Camden was very excited about his truck. He kept saying, "Santa Claus bring me big truck!" "Santa Claus bring me presents!" He didn't even want to open anything else after he saw his truck. We had a lot of fun driving it around before we left.
When we got to Utah, we had our 3rd annual Saturday-before-Christmas Eggett party. Since Amy and I have been in different places on Christmas day, we've been having a party while we were in the same place at the same time. We also carried on the tradition of the packing-tape-ball-game. Inside the ball, there are prizes and mints wrapped up in the tape. We all sit in a circle and roll some dice and whenever you get doubles, you get a chance to try to rip apart the ball and get the prizes out. You get to keep ripping until someone else in the circle gets doubles and then you pass it to them. It gets pretty intense! At the end of the game, you get to trade your mints in for envelopes with other prizes, including gift cards (some valuable, some kind of worthless, like ones with one or two dollars left), money, and sometimes other silly coupons, etc. We always include a service project as part of the days activities, and this year we got to use some of the money to buy some presents for a family we adopted for Christmas.
You can't tell from the pictures, but the ripping action is pretty crazy!
Danny's trying to get out one of the valuable mints.
While we were here, we got to visit some of my favorite places to eat. I've been dreaming about them for months! Nielsen's for some custard and a Finer Things Combo sandwich (warm turkey, cream cheese, and avacado, mmm), Mandarin for Chinese, Robintino's for a shrimp salad, and Keva Juice for a fruit smoothie, yum!!! Here we are at Nielsen's.
We had a lot of fun putting together a gingerbread house from Great-Grandma Eggett. Thanks Grandma!
We enjoyed going to see the lights on Temple Square on Christmas Day after seeing a movie with my family and having dinner at Little America. Thanks Mom and Dad!
Camden had fun playing with some new toys, including this train!
And we can't forget a couple of videos! We went down to Provo to see the Carl Bloch art exhibit and afterward went down to Spanish Fork to see the Festival of Lights. You drive through this park where they have set up all kinds of lights! It was really fun. I'm glad we could take Camden back there and take my family too!
On the way home, Camden was having fun singing Christmas songs, including this version of "Jingle Bell Rock."
We have had a wonderful Christmas and we are looking forward to spending some more of the holidays with our family in Nevada. Merry Christmas, we love you all!
