Kristin, Chance and Addyson: Christmas Time!

(After Santa came)

One from our Christmas cards

Christmas time was a little hectic this year. We had our bingo party on the 18th so, to me, it didn't really feel like Christmas, I like it when we can have the bingo on the 24th. AND! that's when I discovered that my recently recovered camera was TOAST, that's right, BROKEN. The batteries burst and there was crusty white stuff all over on the inside of the camera, it was done for. So I don't have any pictures of the bingo madness. Then on the 23rd I left work early and we drove down to Vernal to see my sisters and my parents and spend their Christmas with them. They were having Christmas on the morning of Christmas Eve so my Dad could be there because he had to work graveyards that weekend.

I just have to say. The 3 hour drive with a car-sick one year old. . .NOT so much fun. . .at all. Addyson screamed for a good 45 minutes straight and then in the middle of Daniels Canyon Chance pulled off the road and I jumped out in my slippers and grabbed her out of her seat, good times. ANYways, once we got there we had fun. We got there around 7 at night, had and some dinner.

Right after we got to Vernal

After dinner, I decided that I needed a camera so Chance, My Mom and I all went to Walmart to get one. We found a camera that we liked, and one that was "cost effective" and we were off to the check stands. We're waiting in line and Chance looks down the line and says "Hey, isn't that Robert Foster?" I looked over and confirmed that yes, it was Robert Foster indeed! THE Robert Foster that used to work at Harmons on Cougar Lane, the very same that originated one of my family's favorite quotes. . ."HEY Beckstead, your paaaaaaarents. . .come to haaaaamon's . . .so know you know" So Chance and I tell my Mom who it is and when she gets up to pay she asks him if he went to Kearns, and he said he did. Then he looked at her and said "Sooooorrrrrrrry about las niiiiiiiiight" hahahaha My mom completely caught off guard looks at him and says "uh. . .what?"Motioning to her sweat shirt, he mentions something about how the Utes lost the night before. We laughed and laughed and laughed about it the entire way back to my parent's house, I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. So needless to say, we know have another Robert Foster gem.

Ready for bed Dad!

After we got back I took about 168,135,746,321 pictures with my new camera and then had to figure out the sleeping situations. It ended up, me, Chance and Addy stayed in Kyleigh's room and Kelli, Chris, and Kaitlyn stayed in Kaitlyn's room. Kimmy and Kyleigh stayed in my parents room. Chance put Addy to sleep and I stayed up with my Mom and Kimmy to do some elf stuff. We had so much fun. We listened to "Dominik the Italian Christmas Donkey" the whole time :) My new favorite Christmas song.

Kyleigh+

After we got all the elf stuff all wrapped up ;) it was time for bed. I snuck into Kyleigh's room and plopped down (as delicately as possible) and fell asleep, only to be awakened about 3 hours later to Addyson's blood curdling screams. She had rolled off the air mattress. . . not like you would think. She was inbetween Chance and I but she somehow managed to roll off the TOP of the thing. She wasnt hurt she was just more scared than anything. After I got her calmed down I looked at Chance and said "Only your kid could manage something like that"

We woke up and waited for my Dad to get home from work, then the kids got to open all their presents. Kyleigh and Kaitlyn got new phones and Kimmy got a new ipod touch, then Santa gave the family a Nintendo Wii. My Mom made us some breakfast and we all sat around and watched as everyone took turns playing "Just Dance 2" for hours.

Just Dance 2. . .

Grampa and Addy

The Christmas Chaos!

My beautiful girl :)

Helping Kyleigh open her presents

Then it was time to get home. We packed everything up and got ready to endure the scream filled 3 hour drive back. We ended up taking Kyleigh and Kaitlyn with us and they were pretty excited despite all our warnings about how Addy doesn't really like the car. Much to our surprise she fell asleep and we didn't hear one peep out of her the entire way home. it was a Christmas Eve MIRACLE!!! hahaha

So anyways, we got home and unpacked, did some cleaning, had some dinner and then put Addy to bed. My Mom was staying with us that night, we stayed up and did some wrapping, then hung out with her for a few more minutes and then hit the hay. The next morning was pretty awesome. It was so cool to watch Addy get so excited about all the presents that Santa brought her. It was a good thing that she had some practice with the present thing on her birthday a couple months before :) it was awesome. And to have my Mom and my Brother there, it was worth all the stressing and chaos.