Crazy Christmas Chaos 2010

Our Christmas was so fun this year because we had tons of family time. It was crazy and chaotic and fun. Kirk’s family arrived here to spend Christmas with all of us on Thursday, Dec. 23. Here’s a run-down on the events:

Saturday, Dec. 18

Christian Dance Company Performance at Mesa High. Calli and I danced together in “Consider the Lillies”.

Monday, Dec. 20

The Jack & Shirley Huffaker Christmas party at Darin’s. We had the traditional Mexican food feast and it was delicious. Darin wanted to have talent night. Our family did “I Am a Fine Musician”. We didn’t practice. I just sent them a You Tube video of Dick Van Dyke doing it and assigned parts. We tried it once together, then performed. It turned out silly and fun.

Thursday, Dec. 23 – Kirk's family arrived from New York. All the guys go to the Phoenix Suns game, plus the oldest grandsons. It was Kirk’s Christmas present to them all. All of us women folk stayed here at our house, had leftover Chile Rellenos from the Huffaker family Christmas party.

Friday, Dec. 24

8:30 AM – Paintballing at Queen Valley. Very fun. All came except Eric & Kim’s family and Brock & Jesica. More last minute shopping. Some came over that night for Christmas Eve, but most everyone had other plans or stayed at their homes.

Sat., Dec. 25

Christmas Day. Santa came and visited since we had little children again in the house. Carmel rolls, then pancakes, eggs, and bacon. That night was our Christmas Party at Brock’s house. Brock worked really hard preparing his backyard for our party and it looked great. Weather was perfect too! Italian food, crazy t-shirts for everyone, toys, but the hit of the night was our family videos. We laughed so hard, we cried. Uh-oh, new family tradition.

Sunday, Dec. 26

Kirk and Bonnie went to church at their old ward in Phoenix. Everyone came back over that night to eat leftover Italian Food that we had from Christmas.

Tuesday, Dec. 28

A-Team night at our house. We all tried to watch the A-Team, but the little kids wouldn’t have it, so most of us women just talked and entertained kids.

Wednesday, Dec. 29

Birthday party for Claire. They had the party at Eric’s house. Bonnie made a “Castle Cake”. We spent about three hours shopping for yellow accessories to wear to our big family picture session tomorrow. It rained the entire day. We found no yellow accessories – I did find a cute yellow watch.

Thursday, Dec. 30

Picture day at Mesa Arts Center. We wore jeans, black, with yellow accessories for the girls. It was freezing. We had only a couple of chances for a good pic and the two pictures were really cute. More pics of just the girls were super cute too. Pizza at Pizza Mart afterward, then Kirk’s family had to head for the airport. Sad day. It was CRAZY CHRISTMAS CHAOS and we loved it!