Christmas time

So Josh and I and Eliza had a wonderful Christmas. We started early by going to Salt Lake for a little fun. We mostly just ate out and hung out in our hotel. We wanted to take Eliza swimming, but the water was freezing and we dipped her in and she was shivering.

My sister and I wanted to go to the mall that saturday before Christmas just to do some shopping for us. We were all done with our Christmas shopping and underestimated the crowds. We went to Fashion Place and it took us like 1 1/2 hours to get there from down town. The traffic was horrible and the parking lot was even worse. I dropped my sister off and tried to park. I seriously almost had a panic attack. Or maybe I did. I was trying to park and hadn't moved for like 20 minutes surrounded by cars and all sides. I started freakin out, and the mall inside was even worse. I totally would not make it in the after Thanksgiving sales. I would sit down and cry as everyone was trampling me.

Here are a couple pictures in our hotel room.





Christmas was so awesome, we love spending time with all of our family. We always have Christmas eve at Josh's family's house and Christmas day at mine. Eliza was pretty tired of running around all the time. She got a lot of books and clothes from our family. Josh's big gifts were a GPS from his family a PS3 from me and a book from my parents. My big gifts were a bread maker from my parents, snowboard bindings from Josh, and a Cricut expression from my mother and father in law. I was soo excited for everything I got. (I have wanted a cricut for forever, but couldn't justify getting one!)

Eliza's favorite part of Christmas was watching everyone and eating the bows.











Here is Eliza and her cousin Jersey who is about 4 months younger than her, and Eliza bundled up to play outside. That girl is all cheeks!