The next day, we headed to Blackfoot for a Hone family Christmas party, complete with the traditional ham wraps, frappe, and chocolate goodies. We had our first ever live Nativity this year, with all the grandkids playing a part. It was so cute and fun...
Sammie, Sara and Anna were angels. (Yeah, one angel had a nose fixation.)
And Spencer and Bryson were sheep. Use your imaginations, people... a headband and onesie make a great sheep costume, right Spence?!
Or you can go the fancy route, like Bryson did... ribbons and all.
We should have had each of the kids pose for individual costume shots, but we didn't. So, here's how they looked, in general. We had Mary and Joseph, a shepherd and three wise men bearing gifts. The grandparents especially loved it all!
We stayed at my parents' place for a few days and caught some good snow, which Sammie enjoyed until she touched it...
Spencer mastered (or worked on) the art of getting up and NOW, down, from the furniture itemes, and thinks he is pretty amazing for all he can do...
We stayed long enough at the Honestead, that Santa got the memo to come a couple of days early for Samantha and Spencer. How exciting!!
Sammie was overjoyed, and LOVED her new bicycle (really it's a tricycle, but try telling her that!), and Spencer loved his fun lights-and-buttons toys, too!
We left my parents' house and headed to Utah for even MORE fun parties and good food. Again, I was camera-less for some good family time. Sigh. But we had a great time being with everyone, just waiting for Christmas to arrive!
We stayed long enough at the Honestead, that Santa got the memo to come a couple of days early for Samantha and Spencer. How exciting!!
Sammie was overjoyed, and LOVED her new bicycle (really it's a tricycle, but try telling her that!), and Spencer loved his fun lights-and-buttons toys, too!
We left my parents' house and headed to Utah for even MORE fun parties and good food. Again, I was camera-less for some good family time. Sigh. But we had a great time being with everyone, just waiting for Christmas to arrive!
6 comments:
so fun seeing you guys. I hope it happens more often! Glad you are around.
Even Angels need to pick their noses. I'm just sayin.
Hope you had a great trip! Look forward to hearing about it when you get back!
That looks like so much fun! And spencer made the cutest sheep! with those big blue eyes... he would make the cutest anything :) Glad you guys had fun!
Wow Kam--So nice that you found time to Post all of this amid all you're in the middle of!! Did Brian take his Laptop over to Hawaii so that you could DO this from there??
It's wonderful to see these fantastic little grandchildren of ours like this! All eleven of them make up a marvelous Nativity Scene, wouldn't you say? Thanks SO MUCH for thinking of doing this and putting it together!! Your dad, Grandpa Hone, had a really hard time concentrating on reading the Christmas Story from the Bible cause he kept wanting to LOOK at the little scene in front of him.
I thought it was really a meaningful experience for the kids, though, cause the next morning, Sunday, Brittany--(the 4 year-old little 'Mary' holding the Baby)---was standing in my bedroom listening with me to the radio, and as she heard the seminary teacher say "Mary, the mother of Jesus....", her eyes got wide and she said in awe..."MARY? Oh, that's ME!! He's talking about ME!" She was SO enthralled with the whole thing, and she had been the "reverentest" little "mother" anyone could ever be....didn't you think, Kam?? Thanks again for all you did---wasn't that a WONDERFUL night with all 22 of us together like that?? Lots of Love, Mom
how fun!! and what's this i hear..you're in hawaii??!!!!!! i'm soooo jealous! i'll be waiting for a long hawaii post!!
Yes Sis, nice blog update, good pics, those were good times for sure! It was great fun spending time with you and your family, I'm so glad we were all together like that!
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