Pre-Christmas in Texas!

We spent Christmas in Utah this year. It was fun to be with family for the holidays since last year we stayed here because it was getting a little too close to Myer being born. We left December 17th and thanks to a good deal that came up on Southwest we were able to fly to Utah without the worry of if we'd make it or not like we do when we go standby. We saved that worry for when it was time to come home!

Since we are away from home for Christmas most of the time we get the special treat of opening gifts early at home. We usually get too excited and can't wait any longer. So, it seems the day we've designated to have our early family Christmas gets bumped up a day or so from what we planned. That's the joy of being parents, we can make those decisions now!

So the Sunday before heading to Utah (we were going to do it on Monday) we had our family Christmas. This gave the kids two days to enjoy their gifts before leaving to Utah.

Kenner opening his new hot wheels race track

Testing out the new track

Waiting for his turn

Luckily Kenner was there to help out

New Hot Wheels cars for his racetrack. It was kinda funny because he opened the track before church and was playing with it using his old hot wheels cars. He kept looking at the box the track came in and it had all these cooler looking cars on it. He was admiring them I guess and wishing for something more fancy. So, these new cars were a bit cooler but he had to wait until after church to get them!

I thought Kenner had a funny look on his face in this one

Ahh, a Mac truck, with Lightening McQueen inside!

Get these away from me! He didn't care too much for opening the gifts or the crinkly noise of the paper.

He'd rather just eat the paper!

Posing while daddy got the camera set up for our family pic in front of the tree!