Provo Christmas (i.e. Christmas 2009 Part 3)

We were able to arrive in Utah just in time for the Christmas festivities to begin. That night we all went caroling and delivering Christmas gifts to the neighbors. It was definitely a quick change from the sunny weather in So Cal to Utah. Mark and I had to borrow lots of outerwear and boots to make sure we didn't freeze and we were still really really cold. We had lots of fun though and who really needs to feel your toes anyways?


On Christmas Eve, we went sledding at Rock Canyon Park, also bundled up in many borrowed warm wear. It also turned out to be Mark's first time sledding! I had no idea that he hadn't been before so I had so much fun sharing that with him. He got really into it and we enjoyed hanging out with some of the Wadsworth family.



To continue our Christmas Eve celebrations, we participated in the Wadsworth family traditions of eating a yummy dinner, opening family Christmas presents (i.e. the presents we give to each other, not Santa presents), and watching the musical movie "Scrooge." Here are all the kids, with lots of new brother-in-laws (definitely a new thing for us). We were very excited to start opening presents.


All the kids stayed up late watching the movie and then ended up sleeping around the basement (except Heidi and Seth who went to their nearby home for the night). In the morning we slept in, waited for Heidi and Seth to come, and then had our annual march up the stairs (youngest to oldest) to check out the tree and the presents. Dad started with his typical checking out of the tree (i.e. turning the lights on). He naturally let us all down gently by telling us that at least there was some good news... we wouldn't get too cold this year because of all the coal we received. Never gets old. We marched up the stairs, situated ourselves and started digging through our stockings. We then went present by present as each person took a turn opening something and showing everyone what they received. As you can see, my mom's still getting used to buying presents for the brother-in-laws so they mostly got matching gifts. Aren't you jealous??


Mark and myself with our stockings and presents. What a wonderful first married Christmas!


I couldn't resist putting in this picture of my sisters, Holly and Amber. They were too cute with their matching furry coats.


Christmas morning presents of all the Wadsworth kids, complete with matching pajama pants we received the night before from Mom:



Mark and I had a great trip to Utah and loved spending lots of time with all of the Wadsworths. We don't get to see them as often as we would like, but enjoy every minute that we can get. We miss and love you guys!