We had our very first Christmas in our own home. The tradition has been to spend Christmas at my parents' house, but seeing as none of the other siblings would be around for Christmas, we decided to have Mom and Dad come to our house for the festivities, in order to avoid carting our belongings back and forth all week. It was a great time. We had the traditional Christmas program on Christmas eve, and a wonderful dinner. Then my parents enjoyed watching Jarod assemble the gifts from Santa. In our house, the gifts from Santa come unwrapped, and already put together. Who knew the kitchen Santa brought for Carly had so many parts!!! All in all, it was a great Christmas. The kids scored big time, and it was fun to watch them open the gifts. 
I think Jarod was more excited at this gift than Josh was. Jarod got Josh big boy pants. Now I get to look forward to potty training Josh. I kept saying I wasn't even going to think about it until after Christmas...well, now I guess I'd better get on it.
Reed's kids picked out great gifts for my parents. They went to some function where the kids went into the "store" picked out gifts, and then had them wrapped and mailed. Dad got a real kick out of his calculator pencil box. We all had a good laugh at that one. 
Mom got this pretty necklace from them. Stunning! Good job Emma, Spencer, Parker, Conner, and Quinn! You got great gifts for Grandma and Grandpa Skinner! 
is that a jump shot josh has going on with his bball hoop? nice.
ReplyDeleteyour mom and dad look so cute. i think your mom looks like she has lost weight! i am going to feel like a whale around the rest of the skinner/valdivieso clan!
Your tree is beautiful. Please tell your folks HELLO from California.
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