Christmas 2013!

Christmas week had lots of promise but instead, we had a few surprises...

Our Monday night FHE was our annual sibling/cousin White Elephant party with John's side of the family at the Piggott's house.  A few cousins had to work so numbers were smaller than usual but we still shared lots of laughs!

 Our Christmas Eve party at John's parents house had to be postponed this year as John's mom had back surgery a week ago and is currently in a rehab center.  As our family decided to go to dinner with just the 4 of us, we got a sad phone call that MY mom fell at home and broke her hip and was scheduled for surgery later that evening.  

Christmas morning didn't begin until about 8 am at our house when the 2 kidlets got out of bed.

We had to do an early-morning Christmas PJ pose...

Kind of different with just 2 kids seeing what "Santa" brought...

Grayson was pretty happy with every gift he received...

...and he made quite the Christmas haul!

Hailey loves animated shows and these were two of the new favorites she wanted...

...not too shabby herself!

And of course Cooper was ecstatic over his Christmas stocking full of new toys.

The best gift we received was an hour-long skype visit with Elder Tebbs, currently serving in Zacatecas, Mexico.  It was great to see him and hear him.  He's doing great!!

I've definietly missed his smile and his cute laugh!

We enjoyed a delicious Christmas dinner at the King's...

...and then headed out to hang with my mom for a little while.

Merry Christmas!

My mom's best Christmas gift was getting released from the hospital after 3 days and sent to a rehab center for a couple of weeks.  Hailey and Grayson enjoyed the van ride with her...

She seems pretty chipper and seems to enjoy her new digs.  Hopefully 2014 will be one of health and healing!!