Christmas week

Bramdon and I had a wonderful Christmas. it was very busy. we first had the Clifford Christmas party on Friday the 21st. it was very fun. the whole party is a big tradition. we have dinner and we play the nut game. whoever finds the nut wins the rnament. Grandma hide's a nut somewhere in the food. i dont remember the last time i won. i guess i'm nt eating the right food. then we have our program. each family does a little part. it is fun. one family gets assighned to do the nativity each year. then we sing songs and santa comes and brings all the kids presents. then while the kids are all occupied with the toys they just got the adults play the elephant gift exchange game. there are usually about 80- 100 people(including all the kids) i dont think we had that many this year though. but it was great. then on saturday Brandon and i finnished up some last minute shopping. on sunday it was my Birthday(yes it stinks having it so close to X-mas but oh well). I was a big procastinator this year so sunday morning i was hurring to finnish making some gifts i was giving to my family. We had church at 11am then after church i wrapped gifts for Brandon's parents and for the Skousen family. then we went over to Brandon's parents house and gave them their gifts. Debbie loved the quilt i made. i was so happy she liked it. then we went over to Tracy and Diane's house for the Skousen Christmas party. this party is full of tradition also. we always eat Papito's french dip sandwiches, and Nannie always has a ton of jello ;) then we play throw the ping pong through santas mouth. it is really hard. and we tell the christmas story as we sing songs. then we all open gifts. and since christmas is so close to my birthday nannie always gets me a cake that says Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday Ashley.

Brandon had to work on christmas eve so we left for prescott around 4pm after he was done and we finnished packing. we had christmas eve at brad & mindy's house it waqs fun my grandpa's brother and his family was able to come for dinner. we don't get to see them very often so it was a great treat. after dinner grandma and grandpa both told some stories aboout christmas. the kids were traking santa on the internet and they would come and tell us every so often where he was. it was so funny. anyway we all woke up on christmas morning around 7:30-8am santa came and brought all the kids some pretty col stuff. Dallas(my13yr old cousin) got a cell phone in his stocking, annie got an ipod shuffel. and Mckell got an Ariel kitchen. i dont think Mckell stopped playing with her kitchen until we went over to Randy & Lisa's for christmas dinner @ 12. so we had our christmas lunch/ dinner. then we opened all our gifts. there were a ton of presents uinder the tree. it was fun brandon and i got PS2 and guitar hero. it is alot of fun. so if anyone wants to come play just give us a call. i made the coolest necklace for my mom here is a pic of it:

So to make this long post a little shorter We had a great Chrsitmas and we hope everyone else did too.