Christmas Eve

T'was the night before Christmas when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse....

Ok, maybe at the Honsvick's house it was a little bit different. Chaos is everywhere. By this time, everyone is here at the house, all of Jared's brothers and sister and their families. The house is packed and noisy. Kids are running everywhere and parents are yelling at them to calm down...you get the gist. Here are some of the things that we did Christmas Eve.

First I gave Mary Kay makeovers to my wonderful mother in law and my beautiful sister in law. We wanted to get all dolled up before we finished up our Christmas Shopping. I think they enjoyed it, the before and after pictures are below.

(Yes, we look super bad! We were on our way out walking.)

Then we played games and caught up with everyone's lives. The kids were super excited for Santa Claus to come bring them their presents. First we had a Christmas Eve family talent show. Ben and Loni read a very cute story to us about the birth of Christ.

Rachel's family sang "Santa Claus is Coming to Town,"

And Jake and Jared sang Adam Sandlers "Hanukah" song.

From there the kids opened their Christmas Eve gifts which were their brand new PJs. Then we made candy trains.

This is Riley (Ben and Loni's Girl) in her new Snowman PJs. They are the cute footie pajamas which as stinkin adorable on her, she has so many pairs.

We have Casen (4) in his Dinosaur pjs, Madison (2.5) in her Monkey pjs, and Marshal (6) in his Polar Bear pjs. All the pjs came with masks, and the kids loved them.

It was such a blast and it is so adorable watching all my nieces and nephews being excited about Christmas and Santa Claus. There are some days I wish I could be a kid again.

I am so ready to Santa Claus to come.

Christmas is Coming

Wow, so much has happened in these past several weeks. We have completed our finals and we did well. Jared is glad to be done and graduated (though the school is now complaining that he has classes he still needs to take, which is totally gay and not true), he walked the stage. I hate that BYU-Idaho is run by students who have no idea what they are doing. For his graduation gift, I got Jared a really nice camera, a Nikon D90. I think he really likes it, but its amazing expensive, we better get some great use out of it. Anyways, the Sunday after his graduation we left for California. It was awful if I might add. If was snowing pretty hard in Pocatello, Idaho which slowed us down quite a bit. We stopped so many times which slowed us down a lot also. Then on top of Truckee Pass (in between Reno Nevada and Rocklin California) it was snowing hard core. Since California are sticklers about everything, they made Jake, who was carpooling behind us in his car, pull off the side of the road and put on chains, which again delayed our progress once again, and from there is was 35 mph through the pass. Lets just say that a 12 hour drive turned into an 18 hour drive. I have never been in a car that long, and it SUCKED!! I never want to get into a car again.

Well, since being here in California, we have had a fun time. We did our Christmas shopping and stocking shopping. I really hope Jared will like what I got him. I can't believe that Christmas is in 2 days, and that it is already almost 2011. Time has certainly flow by extremely fast.

(Graduation pictures to come soon)

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