Fun with Jodee

Jodee came to visit for Christmas again this year.  We love having Jodee come; I think Estelle asked every morning if Jodee was coming yet.  We picked her up from the airport a few days before Christmas and headed straight to the Botanical Gardens.  We love to go at Christmas time and see the train display.  It was really fun.  And we ran into some friends at the Gardens that we had seen the day before Ice Skating.  It is funny what a small world it is sometimes; even when surrounded by millions of people.  

We had lots of fun this Christmas watching the shenanigans that our scout elf, Krystale (Estelle calls her Elfie), got into.  One night she dressed up as a Superhero and zip lined across the room.  

We did lots of game playing.  Natalia made Estelle a Masha and Bear outfit.  

The girls got to spend the night at Aunt Krystale's house and Hector, Jodee and I went out.  We had dinner and then went to see the play, Annie.  It was so good and so much fun with two of my favorite people.  The girls had a blast at their sleepover.  

We did lots of cooking and eating.  It was fun that they girls were off from school while Jodee was here.  We played LOTS of games and had a great time enjoying the Christmas Magic.  

We got to go to Church on the morning of Christmas Eve.  I had put a gift under the tree for them to open Christmas Eve.  They were pretty excited about this since we do not normally open anything on Christmas Eve.  They all got something new for church...so we had to take pictures.  

After all our Christmas Festivities, we had more time to have fun with Jodee.  Things slowed down a little and we had time to just hang out and eat leftovers.  Jodee and I went to the Temple one day.  We watched movies and played a thousand games with the girls.  Hector got in a hunting day and everyone did lots of Legos.  The girls got Uno gift cards from the Elf, so they treated us to dinner one night.  We also got in a little bowling; Jodee killed us.  We love having Jodee come; it was lots of fun.  It makes our Christmas more special having someone we love at our house to celebrate with.