Christmas 2010

Christmas was so much fun this year!

Chris was already in Vernal, so I drove out there after I got off work on Thursday, the 23rd.  We spent the night there, Santa came early because Kyleigh and Kaitlyn were going to be at their Dad's on Christmas morning.  David couldn't be there because he couldn't get off work, and Chris had to go to work early that morning :( So not EVERYONE was there, but it was nice to get most of us together.  It was still lots of fun though, and I got some pretty good pictures (that will hopefully be coming soon!) 

Santa brought everyone a Wii, and Kyleigh and Kaitlyn's faces when they opened it were just priceless!  It was way cute... Santa also brought Mom, Dad, and Kyleigh new phones, and Kaitlyn got her first phone!  She was so excited!  And Kimmy got an Ipod touch from Santa this year. 

After we opened gifts we had breakfast and played with the new toys.  Then Dad went to sleep, he had just gotten off of a graveyard shift, and everyone else started heading back to Salt Lake.  I stuck around and waited for Chris to get off work so we could ride back and go to his family's Christmas Eve stuff.  So he didn't end up getting home until like 6.  But we hopped right in the truck and headed back.  We got to his Dad's at about 9:30, so we hung out with his Dad, step-mom, most of his siblings, and Aunt Toni, Uncle Bill, and cousins, Jeremy and Alyssa until about 11:30.  It was a lot of fun, we don't get to see them very often. 

After that, our friends Cody and Rachel REALLY wanted to see us because they had gifts for us.  So we dropped by our other friend Derek and Vonee's (where Cody and Rachel were hanging out at the time) and visited for a little while. 

There is a bit of a story behind the gift they gave me though.  We usually go to a bar called Five Monkey's for Monday Night Football, then hop over to Club 48 to play claw machine.  SO there was this GreenBay beanie in the claw machine that I had probably spent at least 20 dollars trying to get.  So Cody and Rachel thought it would be funny to buy me one.  So they, being the sweethearts that they are (I love those two!) got me a GreenBay Packers beanie, and they got Chris a Minnesota Vikings mug.  But we were both SO exhausted from that day, and the drive home that we didn't stay very long.  We went home and went to bed!

Then we woke up the next morning at about 8 - 8:30 to go back to Chris' Dad's to open presents with them.  We didn't have any presents to open at home this year, because Santa had gotten us a shotgun (that we both helped pick out), tickets to the Jazz VS Bulls game (which Chris had found about a week early), and the movie Despicable Me (that we opened the night before to watch while we fell asleep.) 

We got to Charlie's (Chris' Dad) at 9 and had breakfast with them, then we started opening presents.  Which was a lot of fun!  Izzi (his neice) got a play kitchen from Santa and she loved it!  We all got socks from Dad and Lisa (of course!) And we hung out there until about 1 o'clock.  Chris and I then went home to shower, because it was a pajama party at Dad and Lisa's :)

Then we went to Chris' Aunt Jeanine's for a little while, and then to Grandma and Grandpa Colbert's.  We hung out there for a few hours, opened presents, had some dinner.  Then we went to Chris' friend, Chase's house for about an hour.  Then home after that.

Unfortunately I didn't get to see my dad on Christmas Day.  He was stuck back in Vernal for work... I did make sure to call him and wish him a Merry Christmas.  I felt bad for him though!  Even though we did our Christmas thing the day before, and he got to be there for that, it would be hard to spend Christmas all alone.  I think he spent most of it sleeping though, because he's on the graveyard shift this month... But I hope that he still had a good Christmas :(

All in all, it was a really good Christmas for us!  I had a lot of fun, and was glad that we got to visit with everyone for a little while at least.  It was nice to spend it with family and loved ones! 

Again, hopefully I will have pictures soon!