{"id":4061,"date":"2012-01-26T16:46:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T00:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/?p=4061"},"modified":"2012-01-26T16:46:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T00:46:48","slug":"christmas-eve-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/?p=4061","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christmas Eve, the day we would officially celebrate my birthday. Scott got up early and let me sleep in. He and the kids made me a LOVELY breakfast (eggs, hashbrowns, pancakes, the works). <\/p>\n

Right after our early breakfast we headed over to the church as a family to clean it. Yup, it was our Saturday. But so many wonderful families joined us, it felt more like a party!! <\/p>\n

As soon as we were done with the church we came home and I got to open my birthday gifts. <\/p>\n

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Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Thompson for my birthday money!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Thanks Alix for the beautiful scarf you made me in sewing class. It's silky and warm.<\/p><\/div>\n

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My favorite, Bearenstain bear book and smelly body wash. Thanks Babe!!<\/p><\/div>\n

Then we started cleaning our house. After all, Santa can’t come to a dirty house!! :o) <\/p>\n

About this time, Scott dove into his valiant effort to bake me this cake<\/a> for my birthday. It sure did taste good, but not what we were expecting. Then again, none of it went to waste, so it MUST have been good!<\/p>\n

About 3 I left to have some quiet time and run some errands and let Scott cook dinner . I was put under strict command by Scott’s AWESOME aunt, Aunt Angela, to find myself a cute shirt\/sweater\/top to go with my girls’ cute dresses from the wedding and take some family pictures. So I set out on a quest to find that perfect top. After 2 hours, I had purchased 4 different tops. I couldn’t decide which, if any looked good so I bought them all and figured Scott could give his opinion and then I could return the others. I then made a quick stop at Wal Mart and then headed to the bus stop to pick up my sister. She was coming to spend Christmas with us.<\/p>\n

Sara’s bus was SUPER late and so I snoozed in the car while I waited. Scott, the good sport he is, cooked dinner, fed the kids, and got them ready to go see the lights at the temple.<\/p>\n

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They all looked amazing in their hats and they still love to wear them around. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa!<\/p><\/div>\n

As soon as we got home we let the kids open their presents from Grandma and Grandpa Thompson because I knew what they were and I knew the kids would NEED them. Then we jumped in the car and raced (slowly of course) to the temple. <\/p>\n

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Milo and Afton were so facinated by this display in the visitors center. We had to tear them away. And they looked really cute in those hats too!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Keeping warm<\/p><\/div>\n

It was beautiful to see all the lights and visit the visitors center. It seemed perfect to be spending Christmas Eve at the temple. We ran into the Dalrymple’s and enjoyed a visit with them while the kids ran around keeping themselves warm! :o)<\/p>\n

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See the nativity in the background. Wish my camera was a little beefier and I could take this picture with no flash.<\/p><\/div>\n

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We made it home just in time to put everyone to bed. Then I started my fashion show. I wanted to wear my new shirt the next day since the girls would be wearing their dresses. After trying on all of them a couple of times, it was determined by Scott, Sara and Jaime that NONE of them looked good. Sorry Angela, I tried!! <\/p>\n

After a few more things and some cleaning up, Scott and I silently slinked off to bed so Santa could go to work.<\/p>\n

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Our freezing family!<\/p><\/div>\n

A fabulous Christmas Eve, sure to be followed by an even better Christmas Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christmas Eve, the day we would officially celebrate my birthday. Scott got up early and let me sleep in. He and the kids made me a LOVELY breakfast (eggs, hashbrowns, pancakes, the works).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4061"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4076,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061\/revisions\/4076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}