Thursday, December 31, 2009

Christmas at Memma and Pampa's


We took a trip to Las Vegas to see Grandma and Grandpa Hill this Christmas (as well as half my siblings).  It was a great trip, and this post will have a LOT of pictures.

We saw a lot of pretty scenery on the drive down



 went through tunnels

Passed No Name, Colorado

and the kids slept a lot


When we finally got to Vegas (after 13 hours of driving), they were so glad to get out of the car


Grandma and Grandpa were so glad to see them


We arrived just in time to celebrate Uncle Nano's birthday, and Erin was so excited about a "burfday cake!"

Then Abby arrived and they girls hit it off


and hung out with Grandpa

 Grandma made a special apron for Erin and the two of them made gingerbread cookie dough together.

 
 
Christmas Eve we went to Honeybaked Ham to get a ham, and the kids were cute in the car


and Patrick played Peekaboo
 
And Patrick learned to put things on his head
 


Luckily Mesh just laid back most of the time and let the kids abuse him.

Patrick loved the nutcrackers.  Erin was scared of them at first but warmed up over time.
 
Christmas morning we opened stockings first.  It was fun to watch Patrick tear at the paper.  Erin got so excited about opening things that she wanted to help everyone.


Matt hid my present and my reaction was "should I be opening this in front of my family????"
 
 

But it turns out he'd walked into Victoria's Secret just to get a bag to put this in

And Patrick practiced his "put in/take out" skills with the bag.

We went in with siblings on a gift for each of my parents.  Dad's was a 50 gallon aquarium and stand


And mom's was for an appointment to get a pair of glasses.  She was on the phone with Adrienne when she opened the letter, and her reaction was so great.

Erin finally got over her fear of nutcrackers when she realized that she could open and shut their mouths.  She would say "Ahhh!" when she opened their mouths, it was so cute.

Abby got a desk, and the girls played with Erin's color wonder finger paints together.

And the girls loved the new aquarium.
 
A couple pictures of Erin in her outfit for Aunt Adrienne (thank you!!)



I told Erin to open her eyes and she started trying to hold her eyelids open with her fingers


Patrick was cuddling with Grandpa and Erin got jealous.

Family picture minus Abby

It was sad when we had to leave.  Matt got a picture of the Las Vegas temple from the road.

The Virgin River Gorge

Mom, are these the hoodoos you meant?



Yay for Cheezits, they were a hit

And these are from this morning, playing with Christmas toys.  The table was Erin's "big" present, but we didn't take it to Vegas with us.  We put it together last night.

 


4 comments:

Nyssa said...

I loved spending the week with you!

Rachel said...

I love all of the pictures. Your family is just so cute. Too bad we weren't there on the same weekend. I told you this on FB, but I love the background music in the peek-a-boo video of Patrick. :)

Jacalyn said...

Originally, I was going to comment on how cute your kids are & how exciting getting to see your family must have been, but I caught the music playing at the end of the video of Patrick playing peek-a-boo & I completely flipped! Where did you guys find the music to Dr Horrible? Adam just found it at the library last week, so we've been on a fix.

Can you imagine how fun it would be if you and Rachel and I all lived in the same area?

HRHSpence said...

That was such a fun time we had with you! Happy new year!