Christmas 2011

I must record our Christmas funny so we don't ever forget it.  One of the things we really enjoy doing during the month of December is driving around at night looking at all the Christmas lights.  Connor acted like it was the first time he'd ever done this--and maybe in his little mind it was.  One of the first houses we saw was pretty lit up and he exclaimed, "Whoa!"  Then he used this expression for every house until we saw a house that had multiple lights and lawn decorations and he exclaimed, "SO Whoa!"  One night we drove past a house that only had one string of lights on the eaves.  The houses on either side had no lights on it.  Connor exclaimed, "Oh, a little bit of Whoa!"  So cute.  Thus we drove around hearing expressions of "Whoa!", "SO Whoa!",  "SO, SO Whoa!", and "A little Whoa!" from the back seats for the rest of the month.

We had a wonderful Christmas.  Grandma and Grandpa Culbertson joined us in the morning to open gifts and then came back in the evening, after church, for dinner.  Here is the crew gathered for dinner.  The empty plates are there because we had invited a guy from Don's work and the missionaries to come for dinner.  Ron got sick and didn't show and the missionaries spent too much time talking to their families and were 3 hours late for dinner.  Obviously we didn't wait for anyone.  We enjoyed a nice quiet family dinner.