Christmas with the Woodys 2014

Last year at Christmas all of the Woody clan was together for about 17 minutes... long enough for us a snap a quick family photo on Jason's lunch break before Josh headed back to St. Louis.  This year, we were all together for a whole afternoon!  And since there were 3 new babies born this year we had to snap another quick family photo!  This time we just met in the backyard and piled on the tractor and in the trailer.  It was a lovely scene with the snow falling around.  

Then it was time to go inside and open more presents!  First from Grandma and Grandpa.  Jonas and Levi both got skateboards.  Pretty exciting stuff!  Can you tell how Jonas feels about it?

Then it was time to open gifts from the cousins exchange.  Levi got a perfect over the door basketball hoop.

Bryant got this awesome bow and arrow from his cousin and a Tardis (from Doctor Who) Yahtzee game.  He was pretty stoked.

I truly never even saw what Bolton or Eliza got from their cousins... whoops.  There were a lot of people in that small space!  Scott and Jane were, as usual, very generous.  To us and to the kids.  We are so lucky to have them!

After all the gift giving we ate delicious lunch and hung out until we were the last ones there and we enjoyed a quiet evening before heading back out to my parent's house.

Christmas in Utah is always so full!  We are so blessed to have such loving families.  The day after Christmas we went to the Temple with my parents and a couple of my brothers. Richy and Kari have been doing awesome at family history work so we all had the chance to do a family name.  After the temple we picked up the kids from Scott and Jane's where we learned that Bryant had introduced his grandma and grandpa to his current obsession Doctor Who--I guess they watched a pretty scary one with the Weeping Angels.  While the younger kids watched a movie downstairs.  Jane fed us a delicious dinner-of course-she can't bear the thought of someone being hungry on her watch! Then we went up to my parents house again (after dropping the kids off at Richy's) for my siblings party, a cheese tasting party.  It was a nice, calm and quiet evening and then we got to leave the kids at Richy's and just go to bed!

Early Saturday morning we got up and started packing up all our stuff (much more stuff to track down than when we arrived).  After we finished (we managed to only leave a handful of things) we went to pick up the kids and head back to California.  We pulled out of town around noon and drove with much better weather going west than we had the week prior.  We are so blessed that we've been protected on all our long drives over the years.  The kids are all such good travelers (except Abe... I think he might be part demon when we're in the car).  Another successful trip to Utah complete we don't know when our next one will be.  Until then Utah, stay cute and cool. ;)