We got to go up to Logan and celebrate Kate's 3rd birthday. Aunt Amanda let us borrow their princess dress-ups. Emi was Aurora and Reese was Snow White. Emi was a little bit sad that she didn't get to be Snow White but she still loved dressing up. Emi got lots of dress-up shoes for her birthday back in June, so she had shoes to match. Emi had tons of fun playing with her cousins at Kate's ball. Thanks Aunt Amanda for letting us borrow the dresses!
Next we had our ward party. It was a breakfast and then Santa came. Emi was not really scared or worried about Santa until she actually saw him. Her cute little friend Jane waited in line with her and they "posed" for some pictures. When we got close to the front Emi started to get a little nervous. Jane went first and did fine. Then Reese went and burst into tears! Emi was so worried about her little sister. Emi would not go see Santa. She was shaking and crying so we didn't have her sit on his lap. He gave her a candy cane anyway. Later that day we celebrated Landon's 6th birthday! I can NOT believe that he is 6! After Landon's party we had the extended Bawden party. After dinner Santa made an appearance. Reese cried and wouldn't sit on his lap and Emi would not let go of me. I felt awful. I don't care if she sits on Santa's lap or not, I just don't want her to be scared or sad. She was shaking so bad and crying so hard. Santa stood up just to hand her a treat and she screamed "NO!!!" and turned into me so that he wouldn't take her. Everyone was shocked and amused, but I was just sad for her. Ever since then when we put her to bed she said "no Santa come" or "no Santa come house". We reassured her that Santa was not coming to our house.
After our ward party I was preparing things in the kitchen and Koby was at Home Depot (or so I thought). A guy in our ward knocked on the door. He said that Koby had texted him and asked for his help moving a piano. I told him it must be at someone else's house. He then read me the text and I realized Koby was getting me a piano! Koby called and texted me and I didn't know how to act. I didn't want to ruin his surprise but I didn't think I could act surprised enough. When he actually arrived with it I didn't react well at all. Now I love the piano and that I don't have to wait to play my mom's. I still don't get to just sit and play as often as I would like, but I'm so glad that my girls will have the piano in our home growing up. For me to get a piano is a really big deal to me. Koby had always said that we would never get a piano. I told him that we would but he insisted that we wouldn't. I hadn't given it a ton of thought because our front room isn't huge, so I could wait til we moved to a bigger house. Anyway, he had told me that he got the piano because he saw how much I loved playing at my mom's house. Just knowing that he wanted to get me a piano meant so much more to me than ever actually getting a piano. Playing the piano does bring me a lot of joy and stress relief though, and I'm grateful to Koby for getting it for me.
We had our normal Christmas Eve with my family on Sunday because M'liss and Tim weren't going to be there on the real Christmas Eve. We had fun acting out the Nativity and enjoyed watching the kids play and just spending time together.
The next day we headed back out to WVC and had Christmas Eve with Koby's side. We have breakfast for dinner and then we send up our red balloon to someone in Heaven. This year Koby's parents asked that we try to think of some kind of service that we can do to give to Jesus. Emi did not want to let her balloon go. I finally got her to and then it got stuck under the edge of the roof. Koby's did to and his was were he could reach it so she got a balloon back. After opening gifts we went over to my parent's house to play games.
Emi asked for a kitchen this year. Emi kept telling us that Reese wanted a ball. Everything was from us this year because Emi was so scared of Santa. Koby bought a play kitchen at the Black Friday sales, but after opening it, it just seemed small and cheap. She would have loved it either way, but we decided to re-purpose an old entertainment center. Lucky for us Koby's sister had one sitting in her basement that she wasn't using. We had fun fixing it up and couldn't wait for her to open it on Christmas morning. Emi has loved her kitchen and plays with it just about everyday. Christmas morning was fun this year! Emi helped Reese play with her things and then she would look at her own stuff.
We are so grateful for the Christmas season and that we get to celebrate the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ.
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