Tuesday, January 31, 2012

a dance to remember.

When my parents opened their gift form us kids on Christmas Eve there were some tears, but then came the dancing. My parents met at Utah State, right on Old Main Hill. My mom dropped her books and my dad picked them up......love at first sight. We gave them a painting of Old Main Hill. In front of Old Main there is a tree and on the tree is the carved initials F.N. + K.G. encircled in a heart. It was sweet and what we didn't know is that my parents "song" is called "meet me in front of the sweetheart tree." So of course my dad turned on their song and they danced and soon we all joined in.

It was a special night, made even more special because we had little Marie to share it with....her first Christmas. We had a talent show with singing, comedy, guitar playing, piano playing and our own little Daniel singing "Rudolph." He did a great job. Nathan wouldn't sing cause he would only do it with Daniel, but of course Daniel wanted to do it by himself.

We also had our annual Nativity where Marie played the baby Jesus...,and of course was amazing at her part! We ate good food, we laughed, opened presents and had a great party!





















































Santa Made it!!!

I am so sad I didn't get any pictures of Christmas morning...only video. It was so fun to see the excitement in the boys as they came down the stairs to all of their presents. Marie got a few new little things from Santa but mostly I just gave her some of my old toys, a cabbage patch doll, a talking Winny the pooh, and a cute stuffed bunny. She is so cute when you give her a doll or stuffed animal she grabs it and holds it tight while hugging it and kicking her legs. She is still smiling every time Winnie the Pooh wiggles it's nose and says "ooooh honey." Daniel got the leaf blower that he was NOT at all expecting. He was excited but a little nervous since I had tried to talk him out of wanting it, telling him how dangerous it was......but of course Santa had to keep the magic alive for that little one. Overall it was a great Christmas and a new experience just spending it together with our own little family.







The Story of the Christmas Tree

When Matt and I were first married we had a tiny basement apartment and no room for a tree. We went to a cute little Christmas tree lot in Logan and we bought a real tree that was REAL little. It was five dollars. We decorated it and loved it.

Every year since we have been away from home for the holidays so this is the first year that we were able to really buy our own real tree. It was so exciting for our family......I think especially Matt and I. We wanted a tall beautiful tree and we found it. We got it home set it up and it started to drink and drink and drink. We had to water it sometimes three times a day.

Of course with Matt's busy schedule I was left to decorate it by myself. To make a long frustrating story short......I had to go back to the store four times for lights and one day three different stores. I blew a fuse in the lights twice and had to hook up an extension cord halfway through the light stringing. I was so annoyed and frustrated with putting lights up. I told Matt I am happy to decorate the tree but never again will I put lights on a tree.

We loved our tree this year. We cut off part of the trunk so we could turn it into a Christmas ornament and keep a part of it forever. It would have been easier to buy a fake already lit tree and of course cheaper in the long run, but I have a feeling we will always be buying a real tree for Christmas from now on. It may have something to do with the excitemnt of actually getting to be in our own house with our own little family to enjoy Christmas and our new tradition of picking out our tree. Something we have never really had with our own little family.











Santa Visit

We celebrated Christmas with Grandma Lorz before she left to spend Christmas with family in Ohio. We were so lucky to also have a visit from Santa Claus while she was here. I will never forget little Nathan and Daniel's faces as they opened the door and saw Santa Claus standing at our door. They were shocked and speechless. They sat on his lap they told him they wanted roller blades. They were a Little shy, but more just amazed.

Santa made sure that EVERYONE had a turn on his lap, including Matt and I(which really made me feel sorry for him.) Matt told Santa that Grandma had been really Naughty this year.....he of course didn't believe it and kept hugging her telling her how sweet she was. It was a fun night and will be a great memory. It brought some Christmas magic into our home. We had so much fun celebrating with Grandma and we will never forget our visit from Santa.