The most wonderful time of the year

I apologize now if I get a little wordy, but I LOVE Christmas! I love the christmas pj's that make the kids want to get ready for bed so that we can read christmas stories and watch christmas movies, and relax a little more than we usually do. I love doing everything by the light of the Christmas tree. This particular night we had just finished family home evening ( you can see the nativity scene, Rangi read the story from Luke and Matthew and the kids added the pieces as we talked about why each person was important and what it would have been like to have been there and to ACTUALLY SEE ANGELS SINGING IN THE SKY!!! incredible!) Anyway, and we got a ring from our doorbell... of course kids can't imagine anything better than that; and what do you know but we got left special Christmas pillowcases that "give you dreams of Sugar Plum Fairies". Of Course Rigdon said his gives him dreams of grandma getting run over by a reindeer (this is a good thing).  
The kids just couldn't wait to open a present so we let them all open their special ornaments with their names. Luckily they were thrilled. Oh yeah and if you can't tell, I also love Christmas because I love to dress the kids in cute holiday outfits.
Which leads to this picture, I would have loved to get a great picture of all three by the tree, but Caroline decides when she is going to be in a picture and today was not it. Something that I love about Rigdon and Livi is that they are best friends, and they LOVE to be goofy and play around with each other, so in this picture Rigdon kept tickling Livi, so much for a great picture, but their friendship is worth a thousand pictures so I let it go. 
The worst thing about Christmas (no it is not the baking although I am NOT a baker) is that Rangi is gone EVERY single Saturday and most Fridays all day (like 5 a.m.-10 p.m.) for wrestling tournaments. We miss having him home a ton, but in the meantime the kids and I get to spend time doing fun things other than homework. Here we are making our first batch of Christmas sugar cookies, the kids have made A LOT of improvement from last year, MOST of their shapes were recognizable! As for Caroline her cheeks are chubby because they are full of non recognizable cookie dough shapes. 

I hope that all of you are having a fun Christmas season so far, may you all remember the true meaning of Christmas and find time to relax. I am SO grateful for all of the people in my life, please know that I think of you and LOVE to get all your cards!