Christmas At The Floyd's

This Christmas was one we will always remember... in great part because everything we "planned" changed. I like to "plan"... I spend a great deal of time trying to make sure things go "just right"... but this year I learned "flexibility" and that things don't always have to go exactly like we plan to be "just right"! Our brother and sister that are married... Greg and Angie... and their boys came up from Arizona to spend the Holidays this year. They had planned on staying at our house for a few days, and then going to my parents for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and then leaving on Friday to head for home...but ended up staying the entire week at our house! Their good friend Kaisi was supposed to go home to Kanab for Christmas but due to our crazy weather and bad roads, her parents told her not to come. She was going to be alone for the Holidays... which just isn't right... so on Tuesday the 23rd at around 2:00, we found out we would be having a house full for Christmas. I immediately ran to Kohls to see what PJ's they had left and bought them for Greg, Angie and Kaisi. Angie had bought some for the boys already... but we have the tradition of new PJ's on Christmas Eve, and I didn't want anyone left out. When talking to her fiance on Christmas Eve (He had flown home to SanDiego) she told him that she was having the best Christmas she had ever had. Like I said in my Christmas letter... it wasn't because she had a ton of gifts under the tree! It was because of the "feeling"! We started with our big Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve...

After dinner it was time to open our new P.J.'s... you should have seen Greg, Angie, and esspecially Kaisi's faces when they realized they had new pajamas too!! Here is a picture of the kids in their new Christmas P.J.'s ... and Dan and Courtney snuggling up!

And then it was time for "our" new "tradition" we picked up from our friends the Mair's... A Game, a book, a movie, and a music C.D... It sure made the evening go by quickly!

The next morning was started with the strict rule that no one was allowed up before 7 am!!! The kids all slept upstairs and had to come into our room before going downstairs! Just for fun, on Christmas Eve Dan gave them his 2-way radios so they could talk to each other ... the boys were in Courtney's room and the girls were in Kenna's room. They loved the idea of course... and I thought it was fun... until the next morning around 6 am when we awoke to the sound of Logan trying to get the girls to answer theirs! (They had been smart enough to turn theirs off the night before and slept right through it!) We shared with Kaisi the tradition we have of our "Gifts to the Savior" and read through our slips of paper. We won't ever forget the Christmas we opened our home to a complete stranger... and made her feel like family!

What a wonderful Christmas it was!!!!