More updates from Christmas

Here are the pictures from Christmas. I know it's been a while but better late than never.

Kaylin eating the sour cream on Christmas Eve dinner I think...

One of the coveted gifts this year was a scooter. We are hoping it'll help with her balance so she can ride her bike without the training wheels.

Here's a picture that shows all the gifts they got after all is said and done. Thanks everyone!

Here's what they woke up to on Christmas morning.

Mom and Dad got gifts too but they aren't pictured. Mom got a really neat laptop (it was an early christmas gift... Santa lent it to me on the rent to own plan), a Mac Book Pro. So now she can do all of the high tech HD video editing. That birthday money from the in-laws will finally get used! Dad got an I Phone (he too got his present on the rent to own plan). It seems we are turning into a Mac advertising family. Kaylin is the only member who doesn't own anything apple.

Christmas Lights

Next on our list is the Christmas Lights drive thru. The city of Yukon did an awesome job with light displays. They took a city park and turned it into a drive thru display. They had music-synched displays as well. Here are some pictures from the event.

Christmas Train Ride

As you can see from the frequency of my posts as of late, I've had the family here in Oklahoma City. It's amazing how much less time you have to do things when you add on three more! But I didn't mind one bit. It was great. We had a great time seeing sites in OKC and having Santa visit us here. They just left today, and so I'm back to being a bachelorette for the next month.

Here are some pictures from their stay. First off is the Polar Express Train Ride. We got to ride on a train (not steam this time) and listen to the story of the Polar Express. They gave the kids hot chocolate, cookies, candy canes and they got to talk to Santa. While waiting for the train Iolana was able to talk with Santa to let him know where were here in OKC and not AZ and she got to tell him first hand what she wanted for Christmas. It was cute.

Even grown ups like getting Candy from Santa.

Yummy hot chocolate!

Never sitting still.

She was so excited to see Santa. Kaylin was too but you wouldn't know it by they way she's trying to get away from him.

It was probably in the teen's with the wind chill so coming into a wind free train was quite cozy. Especially with the cocoa and cookies.

Eldie's First Christmas

I talked with Mom after I posted the last video and we got things straight. The two younger boys are David and Dennis Faltif. They are cousins to Mom on Papa's side, though she's not sure how their Dad, William, is related to Papa. And, yes, the older couple is Great Grandpa and Grandma Lee. The baby boy is Eldie. We are still to figure out who the other lady is in the video, mom needs to watch it again to figure that out.

Now for This video...

This video features Eldie about a year old, and Mom about 3 years old. Mimi and Papa look as rich as ever. Notice the biceps, haircut, facial features and overall physic on Papa and compare him to Dan. They look like they could have been twins! So now we at least know what Dan will look like when he becomes a grandpa!

Visit with Father Christmas

This past Saturday we had our Ward Christmas Party. It was great! We had a potluck dinner followed by the Christmas Story acted out by members in the ward. At the very end of the story Father Christmas, dressed in all white, made a visit to baby Jesus.

He then told a story to all the children about 3 trees. One tree was scrap wood, one tree was made into a boat, and the other tree was made into a feeding trough. Well, as you probably guessed the feeding trough was the manger where Jesus lay in the the stable. The boat was the very boat belonging to the apostles Peter, James, and John in which carried Jesus. And the scrap wood was the very wood which held Christ as nailed pierced his hands and feet.

(Can you spot Iolana in this picture? And if you're good you can see me too!)

The children were mesmerized. Once Father Christmas was done reading the story he had one of the children help him open up one of the gifts under the tree. Inside was a statue of Christ and he said, "Let us never forget the gift that our Father in Heaven has given us..." How true this is, with all the hustling to get gifts, to catch the flight to grandma's, let us not forget why we celebrate Christmas. Lets spend some time with our families remembering the things that really matter. Lets take some time to remember those who won't be with their families for Christmas.

Here are a few pictures of the event and Kaylin's first visit with Santa. She kept tugging at his beard. :)