Fun Times & Christmas

Last week Brian only had to work one half day and has since been off work and will be until next year. There's a good side and a bad side to that. The good thing about him being home is he is very helpful! The down side is, well let me just give you an example. Tali was getting bored so Brian gave her one of my pens to draw with.......this is what I later discovered......
I then had quickly get her into the bath tub to get it all off.

Tali loves having her daddy home to play with. He dressed her up in my coat and I thought she just looked so darn cute!

Tali loved spending time with her little cousin Eli from California. They loved giving each other hugs. There was one picture I have of Eli trying to give her kisses while she's pulling away. It's kind of funny. We're so glad they came home for Christmas!

Christmas Eve, we went to my sister's house for some family time. We played a Christmas bingo game ate TONS of yummy food (thanks Mom, Missy, & Lucian) and we opened up some jammies to wear that night....
Tali LOVED her "bell" (Tinkerbell) jammies.

My mom got us a gift card to Olive Garden for Christmas which we really enjoyed using! She also gave Tali a super cute outfit and a little Elmo fridge magnet that sings which Tali of course loves because it's Elmo. Thanks Mom!

Christmas morning, we went into Tali's room and read the story of Christ's birth from Luke 2 before opening presents. Then we let Tali go into front room to see what Santa had brought......
As soon as she saw the kitchen she ran right up to it and started playing. Nothing, and I mean nothing else mattered. We then had listened to the Christmas devotional while trying to tear Tali away from her kitchen to open the rest of her gifts.
She got so excited when I put her Tinkerbell bedding on her bed.

She couldn't wait to try it out. I think she might like it.

After watching the Christmas parade, we headed over to spend time with the whole Monson family.

Lately, I have been FREEZING!!! So you could imagine how excited I was to get some warm fuzzy socks and a snuggie! I swear my mother-in-law is psychic or something!

Me absolutely LOVING my gifts! Thanks Ma!

Tali got these super cute jammies from her Nanna Dianna and this pink, lavender and white tu-tu was made by her aunt Abbie. Tali had to warm up to the tu-tu, but she ended up loving it!
Apparently great minds think alike because Tali's aunt Libby Made this super cute purple tu-tu and bought her a tiara and cute little fairy wings. Again she had to get used to them. She loves dressing up now.
Tali for some reason started making this her smiley picture face. I thought it was hilarious! She also became the master of the stairs Christmas day. She LOVED playing on them going up and down. Although when she came down, she looked as though she was body surfing down. It was so funny!

Overall, we had a really good Christmas. Thanks to everyone for making it so much fun! We enjoyed every minute of it!