Christmas time is happy time

We had a fun Christmas season, not just a fun Christmas morning. I enjoyed the time spent with each other.

Our Elf, Frisbee, was fun this year. He is safely back home from what we understand.
We continued our gingerbread house tradition... although this brand was pretty small. Maybe next year we will make our own house and not just assemble one and decorate it. Jenna and Steve had the most fun with it. Zac and Trev ate as much candy as they could get away with!
We did bake cookies and treats as a family. I think the peanut butter cookies were the best.
Steve made some new fun dip. Jenna called it "sea salsa", then corrected herself and called it "sea dip" or "dip of the sea". It was actually a shrimp and crab dip with a cocktail sauce base that you eat with chips. It was delicious. He also made clam dip...as I always say, "you can't go wrong with creamchesse."  He baked a ham and rolls, and we ate on it for days. It was very good.
We watched National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation at least 3 times and Elf twice...the Polar Express twice, Charlie Brown's Christmas and Rudolf at least twice.
 We read the Night Before Christmas narrated by my mom on Christmas Eve and the Nativity movie with the kids. I hope the kids felt the Spirit of Christmas that night.
 We spent many nights looking at Christmas lights and went to a home in Pleasant Grove that has their lights set to music that you can tune in on the radio.
Most special was that we chose a family to do the 12 days of Christmas for. Each night for 12 days, we snuck to their front door, dropped a prize and ran like fools! The kids thought that it was fun, although they were skeptical that I could run! Steve and I took turns helping them. We had so much fun last year as the receivers, this may have been more fun! We will probably do this for years to come.