The holiday's for Kirby and I are always a fun time of the year as we get to spend extra time with our families. Seeing that we don't have any children we seem to do all the running while it is a little tiring it is well worth it. We spent Thanksgiving with the Melchi family (my parents and my sisters family) at my parents house and Kirby's parents joined us there, it was nice to be all together for the holiday. Kirby and I are so thankful to have such a wonderful family which includes both sides.
The day after Thanksgiving we did our annual Christmas Tree hunt with the Bird family. We first met for breakfast then it is off to Fairview Tree Farm to get our tree. The owner lets my dad driver the tractor and the rest of us pile on the wagon and off we go into the field. It was very cold and windy this year so Sam the littlest of the group rode in the nice warm truck with his dad. We had a great time finding our trees, I believe we ended up with five for the group this year. It is such a lovely holiday tradition.
To bring some holiday spirit to our holiday season we attended Andrew's holiday band concert and Sydney's choir concert. It is great to see them both taking part in the arts and enjoying it. Kirby and I also went to my parents one Saturday night and made Christmas cookies. It is a tradition in the Melchi family to make Christmas cookies. We have been doing it since I was a young girl. I can remember having my friends over when I was younger to help out. We would end up with the sugar cookie dough on the bottom of our socks and the dough everywhere. I'm not sure how my mom did not get mad at us but we sure did have fun. Over the years there have been a lot of people that have taken part in this tradition but this year it was Kirby, My Mom, My Dad and I. Mainly my dad and I did it while Kirby and my mom told us how to do it :) we had a good time though. Plus the cookies turned out very well.
On Christmas Eve we had my parents and Kirby's parents over for some appetizers and merriment. Then it was off to church for a lovely Christmas service. On Christmas day we went to Kirby's parent's for Christmas lunch, his brother's family was there as well. It was so fun to see the kids open their presents and be excited about what they received. The adults also enjoyed their presents but not as much as the kids I don't think :). Then Christmas evening we went to my parent house and celebrated the holiday with my parents and my sister's family. We had a lovely evening and the little ones got some fun presents.
All and all it was a very merry holiday season spent with all the people in our lives we love so much!
