Go Utes!

Last Friday we went to the parade for the University of Utah football team in Salt Lake. As you may or may not know, the Utes won the Sugar Bowl a few weeks back and so the city decided to have a parade for them. It wasn't a very long parade, but it was fun to go cheer on our team.

The players walked along the parade route signing autographs and giving high fives. Isaac thought he was soooo cool and talked about how he gave fives to the Go Utes Football Players for days. I have a cute video of him but I took it sideways with my camera and I can't figure out how to post it the right way. If anyone knows, help me out!

Christmas

Yeah, I know I'm really late posting this but I'm late for everything else, so no one should really be all that surprised.

We had a great Christmas! On Christmas Eve we had dinner with Greg's family at his Grandma's house. Grandma Carr always makes such good food, so I was looking forward to going to her house. After dinner we all dressed up in our assigned roles and acted out the Christmas story of Jesus' birth. Isaac was Joseph, Greg was the donkey, and I was a shepherd. It's kind of a fun way to teach the grandkids why we celebrate Christmas. Greg's dad read the story from the Bible while the rest of us acted it out. We acted beautifully. I was really surprised when the nominees for the Golden Globes came out recently and we weren't named. I'm sure it was a mistake. Oh well, we'll just have to try harder next year. Here we are in our manger scene.

After Greg's family, we headed on over to my parents' house. My family has a tradition of breaking a pinata on Christmas Eve. I don't even remember where it started, but we have been doing it for years. Greg was in charge of getting the pinata. Could he have picked out an uglier one? Prolly not. Isaac loved whacking away at it.

I did pretty well myself.

But it was my mom who ultimately killed it. Here's my crazy family with various pieces of the dead pinata on our heads.

We headed on home to set out cookies and milk for Santa and carrots for his reindeer. Christmas morning I woke Isaac up at 6:30. I know, I know. WHY would I wake my kid up? Well we had a busy day ahead of us with family, and I wanted to make sure we had enough time to do our own little family thing. Santa did pretty good for Isaac.

The only thing he asked for was a Hot Wheels race track. He got it! He was so excited. Santa also brought him clothes, a robot, a case to store his Hot Wheels cars in, a guitar, a motorcycle, and a few other little gifts. Greg and I both got new shoes and clothes. Greg got some tools, a case for an autographed basketball he has, and he and Isaac got boxing gloves. They are always pretending to box, so Santa decided they should have the proper equipment.

After we opened gifts at our house we went to my parent's house, then to Greg's parent's and then to my Grandparents. (See, I told you we had a busy day.) Our families were so generous and spoiled us all. It's fun to see so many of our family all in one day.

We got home later that evening, and it had started to snow. Two hours later we had almost a foot! It has been snowing almost every day since. It's getting a little old.