It's the most wondeful time of the year!

The Holidays are always my favorite time of the year. This year it was particularly wonderful because Jared finished up his rotation in Show Low and had three whole weeks to spend with us. We really filled our time with so many fun activities. I was so happy to have Jared home and able to do all of these fun things with us. Here are some pictures of the some of the fun things we did. Of course I didn't get pictures of everything, and they are in no particular order...

One night we had dinner with our super great friends and then headed to McCormick train park in Scottsdale to ride the train.  It is a super fun thing to do with little kids and I would highly recommend going.

Another night we went to our ward Christmas party.  They provided a wonderful dinner and then Mrs. Claus came and read a story to all of the kids.

The Friday before Christmas we got together with a couple of Jared's PA school friends.  We had dinner, a white elephant gift exchange for the kids, and they made gingerbread houses.  I didn't have my camera with me so I took a couple pictures of their houses when we got home.

Kyson kept putting candy inside his house instead of decorating it.  Here he is peaking at the goodies he has stashed for later:)

We also had a fun night of going to Sweet Tomatoes with all of Jared's family that lives here in the valley thanks to his Grandpa Gunnell.  After dinner we drove to the LDS temple and looked at the display of Christmas lights.  The kids had so much fun riding in this three seater wagon.  Unfortunately there were SO MANY people at the temple we didn't stay long.  We all had a great time anyway!

I'm sure I'm leaving out a couple of things because our days were filled with fun times, but at least I got this much documented.  Next up...Christmas and New Years!