CHRISTMAS

Wow! What a busy month December was for us, Chris finished up another semester and much to his surprise, he actually passed all of his classes. Andrea, kept her sanity between watching a demanding 6 month old little boy, 2 more who were out of school, baking lots and lots of treats, and shopping for gifts.

We had a Christmas party on every Saturday of the month. It started with the Stubbs family party on the sixth (also Dallin's birthday). This was a very long party, but we had a great time. The highlight of the noght(other than being together with the entire family), was the white elephant gift exchange. Someone created a photoshop version of my Grandma Stubbs with her face and the body of a model. Really funny. It really threw Colter for a loop. He's usually scared of my grandma for some reason but I think the fact that this time he saw her in a bathing suit, which made him think it was dinner time. Suddenly, his opinion of grandma changed.

Next came our ward party.

...then the Jakeman family party. Which for some reason we didn't take alot of pictures. I think it was because we were in charge of the craft time for the children so we got side tracked. We had a great time here as well and there was tons of good food and really just a good opportunity to visit and catch up with everyone.

Dallin also had his Christmas program where the entire first grade sang Christmas songs for about 30 minutes.

Christmas was great!!!!

Everybody got everything they wanted and then some, and we really enjoyed having Colter around for his first Christmas. We truly are a blessed family, and it was great to be around all of our family and spend time with them, this only helps to reinforce how truly lucky we are to have each other and to understand the gospel and the joy and comfort it brings into our lives. Andrea and I feel very fortunate to have three beautiful healthy children and means to provide for them.

On a sad note my Grandma Stubbs was having heart problems and was taken to the hospital early on the morning of the 27th. This gave a bad scare, apparently some of her arteries were blocked upto 90% and because of her being nearly 80 years-old they did not know if they could operate or not. Luckily, she has enough good arteries that with watching her diet and proper exercise they think she'll be o.k. This was great news for her favorite Grandson Chris because he can't imagine a world without her in it. She is truly one of the most wonderful women the world has ever seen. Hopefully, she'll be around and in good health for many more Christmas'. This only helped to further drive home how fortunate and blessed we are. We felt that our Heavenly Father was watching over her and our family at this time and it helped make for a humbling holiday season.

On a happier note, on the 30th my sister Amber was propsed to...and she accepted. She is now engaged to Han and they are planning to marry in May when school is out. Congratulations Amber!

Hopefully 2009 will be as good a year as 2008 was (maybe even better).