Well we just returned home from our trip to Kansas!! We enjoyed the long Holiday there with friends and family and endless fun. But the most exciting part of the trip was that Taylor got home from his mission to Mexico!!! We were all so excited about this! Sarah and I spent the entire day before making signs and decorating his room and making sure that it would be an exciting day for him. Here are a few of our pieces of art that we had in the lawn for him to see. A lot of our signs were inside jokes with the fam, so you may find them confusing, haha.
We had tons of signs at the airport, and we also decided to dress up with sombreros and maracas and mustaches, just to make Taylor feel comfortable :) We not only gave taylor the welcome of a lifetime, but I'm pretty sure that everyone else getting off that plane appreciated us too. Anyway, here he is fresh off the mission:
Taylor got home a few days before Christmas, so we promptly started our Christmas traditions. One of my favorite parts of Christmas is decorating cookies with the family. So here we all our doing our best to one-up each other with our creativity:
Here are a few of my masterpieces; A sexy lady and her cholo man friend, ready for a night on the town:
Mom with her one eyed, one armed pirate gingerbear. She really worked with what she was given on this one:
We even had a contest to see who decorated the best cookie. And to keep it fair we had seth as the Judge. Here are all the entries starting at the top: Nick submitted his Antwon Dodsen cookie, mom went with her pirate, Alan and his mitten, Dad went with his creative star, Sarah submitted her beach babe, Taylor went with his missionary, I submitted Rudolph, and Bryan went with a red tree.
And the winning order was: Taylor, Sarah, Mom, Alan, Bryan, Dad, Me, Nick. Seth is a fan of the color green, haha. Bryan was proud that he beat me, and Alan was beaming with his fourth place cookie.
Christmas eve and Christmas morning were so much fun with Seth. It was fun to see how excited he was for Santa to come. And it was fun being around the whole family. Here is our Christmas morning spread:
I was surprised that we got all those stockings on the fireplace! We really should have taken a picture of what the living room looked like after opening all the presents. We needed 4 trash bags to pick up all the wrapping paper! After opening presents we ate a yummy breakfast and headed off to Church. And Christmas night we decided to head to downtown Kansas City and look at all the pretty Christmas lights. Bryan and I had the privilege of riding with Seth and he was a hoot. He thought the lights were fun and we had a blast singing Christmas songs together. He wanted me to take a picture of him and for some reason this was the pose he chose:
As you can see it was a fun trip and we didn't want it to end. I feel so blessed to have spent Christmas with my entire family and I hope that we will all be together again soon. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas as well!
