Smart Christmas

Christmas 2008 happened twice for us. We had the wonderful opportunity to host at our little home. There is not a traditional dinner (but I think I started one) so Taylor and I decided to do a Mexican theme. As mom taught me to cook, everything was from scratch! Tamales was the new item, but there was also tostadas, beans, rice, salsa and guacamole. Giving our stomachs time to work on all of that before dessert we opened presents.

Taylor's parents LOVE pictures but has an older camera so we helped them with this. As you can tell from the picture they were extremely surprised and loving the moment. It came just in time for the all the snow so they quickly learned to switch the mode for movies.

Darcie is attending BYUI, so we wanted to help her cut down on the amount she hauled back and forth so we search about 7 stores for an orange bed set. Orange is not a popular color so we got a close and we could.

Both Darcie and Taylor's parents tried homemade gifts this year! We have not complaints with that because their creativity turned out AMAZING. Darcie took socks and filled them with rice and potpourri for a heating pad. On the other hand, the "parentals", took limbs and hallowed out enough of the middle to place a candle. Two very fun ideas which will copied!

I couldn't resist this:

Taylor's parents found this on their cruise to Alaska and it fits PERFECT!