The Rosas' Christmas - Part 1

This year we headed to Utah for Christmas to spend it with Grandpa & Grandma Anderson. We headed out the 22nd with the hopes that the 12+ inches of snow we had received the night before wouldn't affect our drive. Ayla was definitely riding in style while watching movies the whole way there.

We stayed at Great Grandma Anderson's since there wasn't going to be enough room for all of us at my parent's house. Great Grandma Anderson has gotten sweeter and sweeter with age! She is truly an inspiration on how to have such a great outlook and attitude towards life.

Christmas Eve Grandpa Anderson hooked some sleds up to the 4wheelers and we took the kids on rides around the field behind their house. Ayla didn't let the weeds and snow slapping her in the face stop her from having any fun!

Aunt Rachel, Eli, Ahrian and Grandpa

What a beautiful day! Too bad they didn't have the snow we had here in Colorado.

Christmas Eve we reacted the Manger scene with the grandkids. It was absolutely HILARIOUS! Great Grandma even had a "donkey" for Mary (played by Ayla) and Joseph (played by Bennett).

Eli was the baby Jesus

Ahrian was the Angel (truly fitting for his personality, he is my angel everyday)

After the excitement was over we let the little guys duke it out sumo style. As you can see Ahrian had the upper hand and gave Eli a smack to the face.

Since we had so many presents from Grandpa and Grandma to open on Christmas day we decided to give the kids the presents from their parents the on Christmas Eve.

Christmas Day was FULL of presents. Everyone was thoroughly spoiled! It was so awesome having all my siblings, their spouses and the grandkids together for Christmas. The house was full to the brim with all the chaos, but what a great day!

Ayla and her cousin Abram

A sister in our ward is an amazing seamstress. The catch is that she does all her work as charity or for free. I asked her when Ayla was born if she could make a blessing dress out of my wedding dress and sure enough she did. Kathryn commented a couple of years ago that she would like to have a blessing dress made out of her prom dress. For Christmas our gift to Kathryn was a beautiful (words truly can't describe this amazing dress) blessing dress. Needless to say she was very happy.

The day after Christmas the Anderson family had a reunion at the church. It was so good to see everyone and catch up with Aunts, Uncles and cousins that we very seldom get to see anymore.

Grandpa and Grandma Anderson spoiled the kids rotten and let them do things that we would never have dreamed of doing growing up, but it was all very much appreciated. The grandkids had a blast playing with eachother.

Before we headed back to Colorado we took a trip as a family to temple square. We are so grateful to be a part of such an amazing and loving family! We sure have a lot of fun when we are together.