Christmas was so great this year. For me the Christmas spirit all started last Sunday. We had a beautiful performance by our ward choir and narrations by the famous Michael Wilcox. He can tell the most amazing stories and whenever Jack and I get the chance to hear him speak we go. Another highlight of the Christmas season was on Christmas Eve when my mom and I drove to Kearns where one of her business partners live. He and his wife have nine children (four boys and five girls) and then he also provides for his wife's parents. When I was younger my mom would sew all of my Sunday dresses and lately she has been missing sewing for little girls. So she decided that she wanted to sew some Christmas dresses for these five little girls. We got to their house and the girls were all sitting on the couch with big smiles on their faces excited for their presents. It was the cutest thing I have ever seen. We gave each of them their dresses and we got a million hugs and a trillion "thank yous". The girls were so sweet and they tried on their dresses. The parents said that as soon as they take a picture they will send it to us so I am planning on posting it.There was one gift that I can say I hated without feeling guilty saying so. I have a sweet 2 year old cousin who I love but she is very very shy. My goal this Christmas was to get her to talk to me before the night was over. The Vawdrey's had all gathered over at my grandparent's house and we were sitting in a huge circle in the basement exchanging gifts one by one. This event takes quite a while on accounta there is something like 28 cousins and 14 aunts and uncles. So... Eva was wandering around holding her new baby doll and since I know everything there is to know about baby dolls, (I had an obsession until I was like 13:) I sweetly called her over to sit on my lap. I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to get to know her a bit more and let her know that Cousin Ellie wasn't as scary as she thought I was. I got her talking about her baby and we even named her Lizzie and talked about her clothes and her long beautiful eyelashes and just as Eva was starting to smile I felt something wet and warm..... seep into my pants..... all over my leg..... She had peed all over my lap! In my head I was freaking out but I didn't want to scare her cause I had finally made her comfortable. So I turned to Jack and whispered in his ear and then he started laughing and so my older cousin Kevin wanted to know what was going on and Jack told him. I really didn't want to embarrass Eva so I tried to get across the room to my dad while carrying Eva on my lap to cover up the pee spot but my aunt Lori could tell by my face what had happened. She kept apologizing and I couldn't stop laughing. And then my uncle Greg offered my a diaper and he was being completely serious but I told him that I wasn't the one who needed a diaper. By the time I had calmed down a bit the whole room was laughing and I was walking out the door with the keys. That was a Christmas story I think I will always remember but one gift I could have survived without.
After we left the Vawdrey's we went to my Grandma Copier's house. It is a totally different environment there cause I am one of the youngest cousins plus everyone is so different but I love both sides so much. My cousin's Jenny, Michael and Suzie were all there and we decided to play games like when we were little. So after dinner we snuck upstairs to the toy closet. We took out the 30 year old "Hungry Hungry Hippo" and played with all of the blocks and took funny pictures. I love my cousins! We had a lot of fun laughs.
Though Christmas was great this year I really missed my sister. This was the first Christmas that she has been away. My parents were planning on flying her in for the day because a sweet friend of ours bought her a "buddy pass" but right now Oregon is in a state of emergency. They haven't gotten snow for decades and for the past two weeks it has been a blizzard. They have no snow plows and the roads have become very icy. Christmas night we all got to talk with her on the phone but it just wasn't the same. Luckily she will be home for two weeks in January. I hope all goes well while she is here.
JUST A LAST HAPPY THOUGHT TO END MY POST:
* I GOT MY LONG AWAITED POGO-STICK! YAHOO! IT HAS BEEN ON MY CHRISTMAS LIST FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS AND SANTA HAS BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL... OH WELL! I HAVE BEEN POGOING IT ALL OVER THE KITCHEN (WHEN MY PARENTS AREN'T LOOKING THAT IS:) AND I AM LOVING EVERY MINUTE OF IT!
