Christmas!

Christmas morning came with much anticipation. I was expecting to get woke up a bit earlier, but I think that nerves made the kids get to bed a bit late. I wasn't complaining though. 8:30 am is plenty early for me. We were very excited about this Christmas morning because Tukar was finally starting to grasp what Christmas was. He saw all of the presents and the look on his face was priceless. He was so excited. Then it all began--paper ripping, boxes being torn apart, presents everywhere!!

Then came to the exciting part of the morning and we had a little something up our sleeves that was kinda hard to keep a secret. Well it started out telling my mom that we were going to take the girls to Hawaii. Well secretly we were planning something else...... After all of the presents were open, there was still a gift hiding behind the tree. Here's how the rest of it went.....

The rest if the day was spent with family. We went back over to Mom and Dad Hollands and had lunch and we all got to talk to the one person in our family that was not there... Elder Travis Big Dog Holland! He is serving his mission in Missouri and this will be the last Christmas he has to spend away from us. He is over his hump day. We did however get to spent time with his "going to be better half" Megan. She is such a QT! I cannot wait til "the" day! We played games including pool and 5 Crowns (a family fave of the Hollands)

Then it was off to my moms house to see my papa and give him his presents. There is another tradition there also. Ever since I was a little girl, I have gotten my Papa both "Lectric Shave" and "Stetson" for every Christmas. So to go along with the norm... we got him some unusual gifts as well. At Cabelas, they had a summer sausage assortment made up of some weird things such as wild boar, alligator, and jackalope (seriously it was rabbit and antelope together). We also got him some canned rattlesnake, alligator, buffalo, and venison. He has always liked trying new and weird foods so what weirder than those.