Jack's first ever attempt at opening a present and he did a pretty good job...loved the paper of course!
After opening the first present Ella just wanted to play with it and was fine not opening anymore we had to keep saying you can play with it in a minute first open this other present. It made me realize that less is definitely more with kids, I'm pretty sure she would have been fine with just one present! But us being the excited parents couldn't stop at just one, oh well now we know that she is easily satisfied!
After awhile though she got the hang of opening all of them first and then she could play with them. It was fun to watch her excitement.
Chad picked out this dump truck for Jack and once he saw it he was super excited! He didn't really care about much else after that.
Other than sucking on Ella's new play baby bottles!
One of Ella's absolute favorite gifts this year!
Belle from beauty and the beast as a toddler was quite the hit as well!
She got a little doctor kit to play with as well and had a lot of fun giving her dolls medicine!
The next day (Christmas Day) we left at 6:30 in the morning to go to Chad's parents house for Christmas with them. We wanted to leave early because we wanted to be able to talk to Dallon, Chad's brother who's on a mission and was supposed to be calling around 10:00. On the drive up we were passing through Blackfoot and we got pulled over! I think the cop must have been bored and just ticked off that he was working Christmas Day cause seriously it was so ridiculous what we were pulled over for. SO he comes up to the window to talk to Chad and it's still pretty dark cause it's early in the morning and I was sitting in the back of the car with kids feeding them breakfast. He looks in on us and is shining the flashlight in our eyes and he goes, " Do you know why I pulled you over?" and Chad responded, " Um I'm not sure." (He hadn't been speeding or anything.) Then the cop goes, " I pulled you over because your driving is Terrible!" Chad just kind of chuckled awkwardly unsure what to say and was like "Really?" He responded, " Well that concerns me that you don't even realize...You were going over the lines into the other lane weaving around...is there something distracting you in here (as he shines the flashlight in the kids and I's faces again. Chad was like, " No, I don't think so, I mean I didn't go over the guard rail or anything (what he meant to say was the bumpy strip thing that helps you know you are going off the road) the cop seemed a little taken aback by Chad's comment and sort of laughed and said, No you didn't hit the gaurd rail but you were not driving very safe and you need to be more aware of your driving...blah blah something like that. SO then he goes back and checks all the stuff that they check and comes back and says I'm just going to give you a warning but this could be a $75 fine and 3 points on your license so be more careful." Chad and I couldn't help laughing after he left because of the way he was like, your driving is TERRIBLE (with some definite annunciation on the terrible part.) It was so weird though cause I was looking up from time to time and it didn't feel like we were weaving around a lot. Chad was eating sunflower seeds though and maybe they were really distracting him :) I just think that guy was being REALLY nit picky! The best part about the whole experience though was that I kinda got some redemption from it because Chad has chastised me for drifting to close or over the line and he was the one who got pulled over for it! Hehe Love you though Chad!
While we were in Kemmerer Chad gave me the last present of his Christmas gifts to me....a new CAMERA! I was so excited! It's a Canon D50 and I love it to pieces! I have not uploaded all of the photos from it onto the computer yet so there will be more to come of our Christmas extravaganza! These pictures were from our other camera.
While we were in Kemmerer Chad and I celebrated our 4th anniversary on the 28th of December...which is truly a horrible time to have your anniversary, right next to Christmas and Chad's birthday on the 26th! SO many events all in one shot! It's just crazy! Chad and I decided that for our next anniversary we are going to celebrate in the summer sometime so it can have its own special time instead of all jumbled in with the Christmas festivities. It's just hard to really do anything when we're visiting our families and wanting to spend what short time we have with them together. Anyways we made it work and it was a lot of fun! We decided to go on a double date with Didi and Jason (Chad's sister and our brother-in-law since they were up there too and we've never gotten to go on a double date with them and hey when ya have grandparents willing to sit for ya who could ask for more! thanks again grandma and grandpa Henkel!) We ended up driving 45 minutes to Evanston a little bit bigger of a city than Kemmerer to see a movie and go out to eat. It was a lot of fun and worth the drive for the experience we had there! The movie theater there which i think was only playing like 4 movies, seriously looked like it was straight out of a horror movie! The drapes in the theater were shredded in one spot like a wild animal went loose there. There was some kind of water damage all over the entire wall, it looked like mold was growing on it. Plus it smelled like sewage and some what of a cleaner smell that was trying to mask it but was failing miserably. There were taped broken seats, insulation almost falling from the ceiling...my explaining this place really isn't doing it justice, it should have been condemned! Ha ha but it was so funny laughing and joking about how weird the place was. Definitely a once in a life time experience.
Here's a pic from when we were at dinner at this country restaurant that I can't remember the name of. The food there was so yummy though!
Aww Dut dut and Jason! Good times with the fam and we'll definitely have to do another date night with them again sometime!
I'm off to bed... more to come though...soon!
