Merry Christmas 2024. Cade spent the night with Halle's family. Jens and Alexandra came up late because Jace slept in. Jack and Sid had opened all of their gifts from each other the night before. So we let Molly just open her gifts up one after the next. Then when all the kids got home, we gave them our gifts from us. We gave a trip to Disneyland as the main gift. We FaceTime called grandma Julie to be in on the gift because we want to take her too. Each of the kids read a letter that we wrapped in a card, with $200 worth of $2 bills for churros and other treats. Grandma Julie read the last card to find out where they were all going. She cried, Jeff and I teared up and the kids were all smiles! Then Jeff gave the boys a surprise trip to the Alamo Bowl game to watch BYU play. They each opened up BYU sweatshirts as a pre-cursor. They were so excited to find out that they were flying out early the next morning!
Jeff surprised me with a big present all wrapped beautifully with a sweatshirt inside that said ATHENS and a card with it that said we were going on a cruise to Athens, Greece June 14th!
Then for breakfast, I made Kneaders French toast, biscuits and gravy casserole, grandma Julie's breakfast casserole, bacon, chocolate milk and apple juice.
It was different without my mom here. It's only the 2nd Christmas in my entire 48 years of life without her. But I'm sure she was sending her love.
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