Sisters and Giggles

Christmas was so fun! We had the whole Mann familiy here. We spent all day opening presents and enjoying family. Todd and Jonathan both commented on how at their house, they were done unwrapping and on to playing by 10 am. We enjoyed getting some new games. And the Nef family all got new socks and sheets. The girls got their bunk beds (from Rodney's family). They are very excited about being in big girl beds. We made mom cry a couple of times. It was fun. My goal is to give Mom a great gift that makes her tear up. And we did. We gave her some fun stocking stuffers. But we also gave her an updated family picture. We got some cute ones. Hopefully we can figure out how to put it up here when we get it.
This Saturday, we got our big family picture. (I have an appointment to finally get the little Nef family pictures in January.) Then the boys went and shot skeet. Todd has been dyeing to take someone shooting. Us girls put the kids down for a nap and then played mom's favorite game, Dragonmaster. When the boys came home we sent them to the Smoovies shop where they played Guitar hero. Then they came home and relieved us girls. We went to the Mongolian Beef. We then came home and giggled, and laughed, and finished our game, and and snuck grandma's home made chocolates (they were mom's to give but we didn't tell the boys). And we laughed and giggled some more. It was fun.
We haven't done a whole lot but enjoyed each other and cleaned. But it has been fun having our family in town. I admit, since Garth got his wii, the boys have played a lot of wii. But life is good. We were talking about hope in Relief Society, and I was reminded of just how often the Lord has blessed us through the last two years. We have been richly blessed!!!!