For Christmas this year we decided that we couldn't afford the plane tickets to go to Utah during Christmas and since the Johnson clan would be in Cincinnati which is only a 5 hr drive that our Christmas would be a little different. So we headed out to Utah a few days after Thanksgiving and stayed a week. Here's how our festivities went.
First off we had a heck of time getting out to Utah due to Expedia messing up. Which caused for a very long day and a very grumpy Morgan. Chase said he was surprised at how mean I was with Expedia when I myself worked at 1-800 Contacts, but this whole debacle is a whole other story in of itself. So onto our week. We ended up getting in around 11 or 11:30 pm, it's too blurry to remember. The next day Adam had taken off of work to spend the day with us so dad got off early and we all hung out during the day. Eventually we split off and the boys went to play with the airplane while us girls went shopping. Later that day we had a group dinner with both sides of the family. I love doing this because then we get to see everyone right when we get there and right before we leave. Of course this was the day that everybody found out that we were pregnant :) so exciting. The next few days we did a lot of hanging out and enjoying our time. Saturday was set aside for Christmas with my side of the family. Mom had also set it up to have the Larsen family $10 gift party. It was a day of fun! :) Sunday was Christmas for Chase's side. We all went to church together which was fun since theres a good group of us and a handful of kiddos. It was a lot of fun though being able to go to church as a whole family, minus Chan of course. We also had a lovely Christmas there, but then it felt like Christmas was all over with, expect for the fact that it was the beginning of the month. Whoops. The next couple of days we did a lot of hanging out, visiting with friends and visiting those who requested a special visit ;) We even went to see Frozen with all of Chase's family minus the kiddos and my parents. We then ended our stay with another group dinner and getting in our goodbyes. All in all we had a very fun and lovely visit!!!
(I didn't take any pictures :( oops. I'll add some if I can get my hands on some.)
The next part of Christmas was spent with Tiff, Rob and the girls in Cincinnati for the actual Christmas. We had a lot of fun down there as well. We went and saw Frozen on Christmas Eve, made ambrosia, read the story of Christ's birth and acted it out, set out cookies for santa, ate the reindeer poop, watched the girls open all of their presents from Santa and family, skyped with Elder Chan and all of Chase's fam, went to the zoo, played at the park, made cardboard cars for our drive in movie, watched lots of movies, ate yummy food, and had ourselves a good ole time. We enjoyed our time down there and loved that we could all be together for Christmas!!!
I wonder what 2014 will be like? :)
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