The Holidays

Happy January everyone!  I have to say that now seeing that February is right around the corner.  I hope that all of you had a great Christmas and a great start to the new year.  I am a little pokey on this post but I wanted to post a few pictures from Christmas.  Christmas is my favorite time of the year.  I love focusing on Christ and family.  We were fortunate to get to go home to Utah where all of my family got to be together.  It was so much fun.  Check out a few of our highlights:

Our Pre-Christmas Skype party with Grandma Sloan.  Grandma spoiled Abigail!  Abigail loves her princess castle and talks lots about Snow White.  

I love these girls!  These are some of the girls that I grew up with.  I was so good to get together and catch up. 

The Sunday before Christmas Rebecca and Jeremy blessed Eliza in Rigby, Idaho.  We had the opportunity to go up to Idaho for it and stayed the night with the Oswald family. It was a lot of fun and I am so glad that we could be there for  Eliza!  

 

On our way up to Idaho we stopped at the Idaho Falls Temple Visitor Center.  I love this picture

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Christmas Eve is my absolute favorite part of the holiday season and my favorite night of the year!  We had our traditional Christmas Eve meal and program:

Abigail was spoiled Christmas morning.  For weeks anytime Santa was mentioned she would instantly reply:"baby doll".  So funny because we never taught her anything about Santa.  It is a good thing that she was such a good girl :)

Christmas afternoon Daddy, Abigail and I played in the snow.  Abigail LOVED it!  We finally had to take her in because her shoes and socks had soaked through.  She was so sad, she just wanted to keep playing.

                Here are the final results of our gingerbread contest:

Check out the castle that Adam and I made.  I asked him if I could be on his team thinking that he would need help to get it to stay together.  Boy was I wrong.  That little boy is such an architect.  He taught me a lot about where we needed what support.  It was so much fun!

I love these ladies so much!  We snuck out for a girl's date.

Temple square was beautiful!  I always love going and seeing the lights.  You should have seen our parade of strollers!

 

Movie Stars!  My ever talented dad is working on a documentary of the Hole in the Rock Pioneers.  This is us joining in on the fun! 

Last but not least, what are the holidays without a Dixon party!