So if it isn't enough that we decide to leave on the last day of school to drive to California, or that I've just finished 3 nights in a row to 11pm for a Volleyball tournament, lets throw in a morning concert at the school and three class parties. Yes I said THREE class parties: Party #1 at the preschool involves a carpool to the Care Center where the kids sing carols, hand out cookies, and go back to teachers house to smack a pinata. Party #2 1st graders reading stories, making crafts, and playing a rousing game of Christmas Bingo in which Chance won!! Yea! Party #3 is for the 2nd Graders where we're making Cupcake Rudolph's, decorating tree ornaments, a story, and another game of Bingo!
All the while the car is packed, the food is stashed, and each kid has a "stocking" bag hanging from their respective car seat with some entertainment to cover the next 7 hours in the car (Too bad this will eventually be 10 hours and we'll not reach Reno) but thats for the next post. Today its just a party!
After a week in California, and a very busy Christmas Eve night at G Frame's, we were all too happy to lay around Christmas day playing with gifts, watching the "A Christmas Story over and over again, doing absolutely nothing. Pretty sure we even wore our snow gear over the PJ's to do some pull-behind sledding out west in the afternoon. But mostly, the lay-down position on the couch was had for the majority of the day and it was a great Christmas at the Rogerson house! 
Our favorite part of Chirstmas Eve is the dinner tradition to share our gifts to the Savior around a candlelit dinner. But acting out Luke 2 and being together with cousins is also a great part of the night. Grandma Frame, figuring on the love for the tricot blankets Great G Bird makes all the kids when they're born, made personalized tricot pillow cases for all the grandkids. Any way you look at it, its a great night, a great tradition. Thanks G&G Frame!
Glad to know after 11 years we still like to hang out with just the two of us :) Giegh took his turn planning the anniversary trip this year and we stayed a night at the Homestead in Midway and then went to the Bountiful Temple the next day to do a session and a few sealings, Pei-Wei for dinner, a quick visit to Gunnarsons, and two days in a row of sleeping in!!! What more could a girl ask for... oh except one more surprise: (keeps flippin sideways !!!) A ring with 3 pink stones for my 3 girls and one blue for my boy) He designed it and picked it out all by himself! How sweet can you get. Thanks Gi!! I love you!
