Christmas 2007

Christmas is a time of Thanksgiving for the Savior's birth- the best gift that we could receive!
I am thankful for all that He has done for us. We had a great Sacrament on Sunday that I dedicated to the Savior since I was given the talent of singing as one of my gifts from Above. I am amazed sometimes because when I sing sometimes I can hear my Grandma Field instead of myself. I guess besides the Yenta personality from her I also got the pipes! Thanks Grandma!

Christmas Morning always comes so early at our house. We actually extended the hour to 7:30 a.m. after begging Mckenna not to wake anyone up this year at 5:30 a.m.! Which was good because I am sick, sick, sick, sick, sick with a major Sinus infection.

This year we didn't get many gifts we only got a few small ones and a large gift.

• Devin and Kyler got a Xbox 360 and 2 games (one of which Kyler bought for himself.)

• Devin also got a subway gift card for 2 weeks worth of Italian BMTs, a gift card from Kyler for a xbox 360 game and a Boston Redsox Backpack from Mckenna.
  

  

• Kyler got cologne from Devin, many shirts and a zipper jacket from everyone!

• Mckenna got a Camera, a puffed fur-lined vest, the movie Hairspray and a sweater. Speaking of Hairspray- have you seen it? Cheezy but worth the laugh of watching John Travolta play Big Momma. (why oh why would he subject himself to the humility?)
  

• Matt got a Flat screen t.v. (the console was moved into our room,)Pirates of the Caribean:World's End dvd and a book about WWII (he loves those history books!)
  

  
  
  Notice that Gilmore Girls is playing on the screen?




• I got a camera (which is where all the fun pictures have come from in the last month- our camera started zapping batteries after our Florida trip- not sure if it was the heat or the humidity,) the book Eclipse (Twilight series- if you haven't read it you should. disclaimer: not for younger than 14 years old :at least I think,) some bath & body works items and a super mario ds game (from Devin.)



• Sharon and her family sent a really fun looking game that the kids can't wait to beat us with called Beat the Parents. THANKS guys!

And from my parents who were so generous to us all we ended up getting a new DVD player for the car (ours had died.) And sent me really cute mikey and minnie ornaments!

THANKS SO MUCH, Mom, Dad and Mary!

Merry Christmas!

Love the Brower's!

Have you ever ate a DIXIE dinner?

Well, neither had our family until the Hunt's invited us to one. It was very interesting. Patrice handed out oranges and then told us a story about how the Saints who lived in the Santa Clara Tonaquint area had never had the color orange except for the oranges that were given each Christmas because the dye was not contiguous to the area (think-red mountains, sage brush, trees, grass, weeds, yup! No orange!)

Then we were handed Baked potatoes and told about how the Saints had these to keep them warm in a very rainy season. So we ate our baked potatoes probably a little different than the saints did we got to add cheddar cheese, Bacon bits, ranch (not me,) and butter to them. Yummy!

Then we had Dixie Sa'la'd: the salad the Hunt's had wasn't the exact Dixie Sa'la'd recipe because it was missing the Pomegranate seeds, but it was yummy too. We also had a story about that one too!



It is a tradition that they Hunts do every year, we ate our food sitting on blankets in their living room and listened to the stories. Then we played games and finished the evening with a Christmas Carol sing-a-long (or in Matt's case, a listen-a-long.)And to top it off our Neighbor's the Simpson's came delivered treats to us and the Hunts and also sang us a song about BYU being divine! (Mark Simpson is one of Matt's policemen, he has a lot of fun teasing Matt about the BYU/Utah game.)

All in all, it was a really nice night!