Sunday, December 18, 2011

Felix Family Christmas Party

Last night we had the chance to get together with Jeremy's family for our Felix Family Christmas Party. Our house in St. George is sort of a central point for everyone coming from either Cedar or Mesquite so we offered up our home for the festivities. Our kids were bouncing off the wall all day in anticipation of all their cousins.  They absolutely love any chance they get together with all of them.
Grandma and Grandpa brought all the fixing to make fun trains and air planes out of candy. The kids of course thought that was so fun. Jase being a train lover and Kylie being a candy lover made it an all around win-win situation for both of them. 
 Then we managed to settle the kids down  long enough to get a few bite in them before they were too distracted by all the commontion and the anticipation of present opening.

We took an updated (for now anyway) picture of all the kids and then Grandma Felix read us a Christmas story about Jesus's birth and gave all the kids a little statue of Joseph, Mary and baby Jesus.
Then finally it was time to open presents! Each year the cousins draw names and we have a big gift exchange along with exchanging gifts among the adults. Everyone was pretty excited about what they got and we had a good time hanging out, playing and visiting for awhile.

Later, after dessert, we headed to the temple to enjoy the lights and the nativity. The kids were sad to leave and even sadder to see their cousins go. We love getting together with family and Jeremy and I both commented on the way home that we really should try to make a better effort of getting everyone together more often. We really don't live too far away (except Zane and Olivia in Provo) from each other and we really enjoy the times that we do.  It certainly was a great way to kick off the holidays and we're anxiously counting down the days until Christmas!  

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