Merry Christmas!

So this was the first Christmas that Tony has spent with my family! I was super excited for it too! We went to Parowan on Christmas Eve and just hung out with my family. Then that evening we had our traditional family dinner. Everyone came over, even Rocky's kids joined us this year! Joyce, Marie and my Mom all served us, we had a delicious ham and potato dinner! After dinner we all gathered and acted out the nativity and then we had our cousin gift exchange. Then we just all hung out until it was time to get ready for Santa! All the kids slept in the living room on the floor (we usually sleep in one of our bedrooms, but there are so many of us now that we slept out there! Let's just say the floor was so hard! We will figure out some way to make it work for us to fit in the bedrooms next time!) Well we all went to bed, Kendra kept saying "shhh, you woke me up!" Janice was even more excited than the little kids I think! Ha ha Well seven o'clock came around and Janice was trying to wake everyone up! We all told her to go back to bed! So seven thirty came and she tried again... we told her that when Kendra wakes up we weill go... Well Kendra must have been very tired! She didn't get up till eight! My Mom ended up coming in to see what we were doing! That NEVER happens! We always have to wake her up! Well after the kids finally got up we lined up and went down the stairs...don't worry Jamie thought it would be fun to go down on her butt, since her feet didn't want to hold her up this time! ha ha Well we all went down and saw what Santa brought! After that we ate breakfast, homemade cinnimon rolls and orange juice! Then got ready for Church. They had a Christmas program, lets just say it was very nice but very long! After church we all went and opened presents! It was really fun! We all just hung out and played with our new gifts! Then we went and made the rounds to see what our cousins all got! After that we had a nice Sunday/Christmas dinner! Then got everything gathered up to go home. Once we got back to Cedar we went over to Tony's parents and opened gifts with them! It was nice to be able to see them too and not have to drive to far! They got Tony some tools and a shirt and I got some very cute shirts too! And they framed our family picture! It was very nice! It was a great Christmas and I was glad to be with my family! Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas like we did!

Family Pictures

The Nativity

All of our cousins that were here this Christmas

Tony seeing what Santa brought!

Tony & I opening our present from my Mom!

Early Nixon Christmas

This year all of of the Nixon kids were going to the in-laws for Christmas. So we had a mini early Christmas. All of the kids decided that it would be fun to make our gifts instead of buying them. So a few weeks before Chirstmas we all went up to Stansbury to get togther so we could see all of our creations! Saturday evening we all went to Salt Lake to go see the lights on temple square! It was beautiful! But very very cold! It was worth it though! After that we all went back to Sid and Mel's to open our gifts! It was alot of fun to see what everyone came up with! Todd made me a holiday plaque, you can change the plate for each season! I loved it! Melanie had Tony and made him a Boise State color quilt! It looked amazing! After that we all just hung out and enjoyed seeing family!

Our family infront of the temple!

Just a picture I took of the temple that I thought looked cool.

Tony and I ... the stinker wouldn't smile for ANY of the pictures that night!

Steve opening the gift we made him. It was a wooden photo album for all of his wood working projects

All of us while opening our gifts!