Kate loves Drew: Our FIRST Christmas!

Our first Christmas was wonderful! It was cut a little too short, but it was so much fun and worth the 24 hours that we were with our family.

Christmas eve we drove up to Richfield for the annual Christmas party at Grandma Micki's house. This year Drew and I got a gift together and so we both put on an oven mitt and opened it together! (Tradition goes that you have to wear two mittens while you open your gift from Grandma Micki & Grandpa Doug) So it was much easier to open our gift than in past years ;)

It was a blast to be with all of our relatives and the food was delicious. We stuffed our faces and before we knew it we were already home from the party ready to open our Christmas pajamas!!

We took some fun pics together with all the siblings and then we spent some time around the piano singing some Christmas songs.

We ended the night by watching the Nativity on lds.org and it was absolutely perfect.

That night all five of us slept in the same room together because it's tradition. This year however was a little different because we had a new face with us! Drew brought a different excitement with it all. A new magic. It was amazing! Hardly any of us got any good sleep and we were ready to go down stairs to see what Santa brought us before we knew it! Drew and Konner were the first ones down stairs I'm pretty sure, but us girls were right behind them!

We spent the morning just the seven of us together opening presents and laughing and smiling together. Drew got an actual REAL "big" nerf gun from my parents this year! (last year they got him a temple bag wrapped in a nerf gun box-- he got so excited about he "nerf gun" but it really wasn't that... so of course they had to get him a real one this year!)

And we exchanged our gifts that we got each other after drawing names. I got Kam an iphone case, Kinsley got Drew his favorite movie: Home Alone, Konner got me some earrings, and Drew got Konner a lego!!

Konner had told us on the phone that he wanted "a lego" and so we decided to trick him and literally wrap up one little lego for him to open! HA!!! It was so funny. We then gave him his real present-- a lego set. He loved it! It was a funny little joke :) [pictured above]

Later that morning we went to Grandma Carol's house for traditional Christmas morning crepes! I had told Drew all about this favorite tradition of mine and so he had his standards set pretty high. Luckily he wasn't let down at all and he fell in love with the tradition as well!

[the cute sisters]

Later that afternoon we made it back home but for only a short while. We got to visit with some friends that stopped by to say hi and then we were on the road before we knew it.

We headed to Cedar where we spent the evening with Drew's family!

We got there right in time for their beautiful and delicious Christmas dinner. We ate and chatted and got to talk to his sister Katie on the phone which was a treat! Then we opened presents and eventually ended the night by playing some games with the fam around the dinner table. It was a hoot! We played "Hedbanz" and it was hilarious!! It was a lot of fun!

The next morning we just bummed around until we had to leave to get back to St. George in time for work.

That pretty much sums up our first Christmas experience! We were so blessed to be able to spend Christmas day with both our families!!!

We got some fun games.

Drew gave me some cute nail polish (because I have none) ...he's the best!

We got Arvo watches which we are both completely in love with.

And grandma Micki sent us home with some of her homemade divinity! It's heavenly!!

Oh and we are building our movie collection! It is a fantastic sight :) We love movies!

Of course I had to take a picture of our nerf guns. I forgot to mention that Drew's first nerf gun (the one I gave him on his birthday) was actually MINE because I knew he'd be getting one on Christmas.
Ha, I have to defend myself somehow! No worries though, although it's small, don't underestimate its power! It shoots pretty fast!!!