wrightblog: Christmas 2016

Sunday, January 8, 2017

Christmas 2016

Another amazing, spiritual,beautiful & exhausting holiday in the books!

We had a personal visit from Santa!

Jude was terrified at first & ran into the kitchen.He warmed up a bit.

He even tried to share w Santa

Golden Star came again this year to visit. One of our favorite mornings was to see his mad Etch a Sketch skills!

Christmas Eve--the ONLY time the entire season at the mall--to see the train for Jude who's obsessed & say hi to Tayah while she worked.

Another memorable moment was being able to see our old, sweet neighbor Brother Lee Foster who moved into Treeo shortly before his wife passed away. He's an amazing man who has a light in his eyes.

We made one of our favorite treks down to Provo to see Grandpa Tingey, eat & sing with family. It was raining on the way their & while driving back, it has just started to turn to snow. Keat really wanted a white Christmas & he certainly got one Christmas morning!

Christmas was on a Sun this year--my favorite! We were able to go with Kara & Marty's family to Sacrament before we headed over to Grandma & Grandpa's.

JoD made her awesome blankets for all the cousins

The boys played in the snow for hours with their cousins. Poor Grandpa was sick & was in exile upstairs.

We then made the trek down to Jas & Kristina's. It was slick & we were going slower around 50/55. Jas was in the carpool lane, but the snow was getting packed so he tried to cross over to the next lane & another car was doing the same. We started fish tailing & jas had to correct like 5 times. We almost hit the railing multiple times. I said a prayer vocally while it was happening. It was one of the scariest moments. Jas was calm and able to correct the van. I know we were blessed & Heavenly Father answered our prayers. It shook me to the core. It certainly changes your perspective & reminds you how fragile life can be.

After a delicious meal thanks to Kristina, Nana read a story to us.

We drove home tired & grateful for not only all our blessings, but to also be alive.

Dec. 26 was a much needed down time after a 13 hour Christmas away from home. The boys had a blast playing with their awesome remote control cars that Santa brought!