CHRISTMAS 2022!

 Oh it was a good Christmas season this year for sure! First Christmas in our forever home and it felt like we had been here forever - just like it should feel. We spent many nights over the month of December staying up late and watching Christmas movies together, Jared took off of work for 2 weeks over Christmas and he has been playing pickleball with the boys, him and Tyler have been working on the red bike and replacing chains, brakes and we even did family workout sessions together in the garage gym!  

This year for our service project we went to downtown Phoenix and volunteered at St Mary's Foodbank. Eli and Jared worked outside unloading the carts of food into the people's cars. Me, Emma and the twins got stuck on the milk station. We had to put 15 little milks into a bag and put 2 bags into a cart and push it to the next station. It sounds easy, and it was...but it was the longest station and our backs were killing us! Next time - we ain't doin' no milk station - we will take the easy salad station - ha ha! 

We drove around and looked at lights in Agritopia this year, went to the Mesa Temple to look at those lights, picked up dinner and dessert and came back for another movie. 

The Sunday before Christmas we did Jensen Christmas at Nate's house. Everyone had to do a little Christmas thing for the family show so our family did a tik-tok dance and then Kara's family did the bells and then that was it. No one else did anything. Then we all played a couple of songs with the bells and then Brandon played his guitar and we sang a couple of Christmas songs. 

On Christmas morning we opened our gifts from Santa, had breakfast, rode Tyler's new bike and then went to church. Then that night both sets of grandparents came over and we all had dinner together with Rj, Dalton and Alyza. After dinner we played Left Right Center and Grandma Rodgers won the whole thing and the grand kids took some of her winnings! Then we all relaxed to another Christmas movie and then to all a goodnight! 

We soaked up a lot of Christmas memories together!! This was one for the books!