Our Christmas Holiday

This year for the Christmas Holiday we headed to Orem to be with Milton's family. We left early Thursday morning praying for good road conditions, which we luckily got.

That night we headed to Temple Square in Salt Lake. Despite the freezing temperatures it was beautiful and Ayla stayed in good spirits despite being very tired.
Ayla with her Abuelos

Ayla, Tio Gerson, Eric (Vanina's boyfriend), Tia Vanina and me

Ayla and her Papa

Christmas Eve is when Milton's family celebrates. Ayla was the angel who put the star of the tree (unfortunately, she was too big to be the angel this year).

About 10:30 at night is when the festivities begin by a yummy dinner.

Afterwards we opened the gifts.

Even Kusko and Bahlu were invited to the party.

As you can see, Ayla is always the centerpiece of all the pictures.

Ayla was spoiled! Milton and I didn't buy much this year, but her Tio and Tia sure made up for it. Thank you for making it such a memorable Christmas!

We made the mistake of giving her the baby bottle as one of her first gifts and she wouldn't let go of it the whole night or the following day.

Christmas Day Grandma & Grandpa Anderson, Rachel & Grant and McKelle and Ben came over for dinner. Grandma brought with her an old baby doll blanket, which Ayla loves to wrap her babies in and feed them like a good mama.

Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures that night or for the rest of the trip...not sure what happened.

We left the day after Christmas to head back home. On the way we stopped in Price to visit Great Grandma and Grandpa Garff. Grandpa looked remarkably well from our last visit a couple of months ago. We are grateful for us both being raised in amazing families who love eachother's company. It was truly a wonderful Christmas and we are so blessed!