Merry Christmas

The Saturday before Christmas we saw Santa at the ward Christmas breakfast. Then we hurried up to Twins Falls for the McMillen Christmas Party...


We had a big party at Pat and Tina's house where we were able to see Santa again. Then we went to a rest home and sang carols to the elderly and handed out presents. It was a great activity. The elderly just loved Liberty and Eliza. Libby just couldn't dance enough for them either. Unfortunately a couple days after that Liberty got sick with we think the 24 hour stomack flu. Then I didn't feel very good for a couple of days. We went back home thinking Eliza and Rob were out of the woods. Went to Adam and Chelsea's delicious Christmas Eve brunch (which I still dream of all the delicious food) and then later that night Rob was sick in bed. It made for a little bit of a lonely Christmas Eve nigh but still fun and at least a little less crazy. The girls and I had (by request of Eliza) bread, cheese, and salami for dinner. Then we made Cookies for Santa...

Then went to bed early so Santa could come. (The whole night Eliza kept saying, "we better hurry and get in bed, so Santa can come" this was of course starting at like 6 pm.) So she was eager to go to bed. We woke up that morning with Rob feeling a little bit better. There were so many fun gifts to exchange. Liberty for some reason never wanted to play with what she had been given but just wanted everything that Eliza had recieved. It was a little frustrating but at the same time pretty funny and ironic. (Apparantly she didn't like Elmo as much as she had put on the months before.)

(Rob displaying my new back pack carrier, couldn't quite do it with a child in while being pregnant but sooooo excited to hike with it this summer.)

(Eliza with Baby Alive. It really poops and pees, not quite sure if I will like that.)

(Libby with her new high chair. She loves to feed her babies)

After opening presents with in the morning with our small family. We got all Stevensons on board to let us come up for the family party even with our germs. I was so glad everybody was so willing because I really wanted to be with the whole family for Christmas. We put Rob in quarantine in the basement which I am not so sure he was sad about since he got to watch a lot of TV and relax. We opened presents (everyone was so generous and thoughtful in their gift giving) and ate some delicious food. It was a really great Christmas, even with the stomach flu.