The Holidays

I just put the SD card in and realized I only took 3 pictures over Christmas...Anyway, here's what our Christmas vacation consisted of.

We spent Christmas Eve at Dorsie and Terry's with the whole clan! It was unique as we celebrated Fiesta style. All the boys and Shy served missions Spanish speaking. They shared traditions they learned from their missions.

Christmas morning Pat and I opened presents by ourselves and headed to my parents in time to talk to my little brother calling from Brazil. It was fun to hear from him. He's been out since May and has failed to send any pictures home. He told us he's lost 30 pounds. I'm hoping for some pics soon. We then headed to the Eriksons for the traditional Siddoway Christmas breakfast.

Christmas afternoon we drove down to Michele and Layne's. We ate a great dinner and opened presents.

Someone had told us the anticipation of the day is often much worse than the actual day. That's how I felt about Christmas. It went better than we thought it would. Though we had our hard moments, we were grateful to be with family.

The 27th was Patrick's 26th Birthday! Pat went snowboarding with his brothers, and the wives went and got pedicures. Then later that night Pat's family and my parents met up for dinner at Applebee's for Pat's favorite won-ton tacos. We had cake and homemade ice cream at our house. This was the first year Pat let me make him a cake. He always tells me he hates cake and he'd rather have licorice or cookies. Well, he asked for Tres Leches cake (from Mexico). So Pioneer Woman's blog came to the rescue and 3 years into the marriage I made him his first Birthday cake and failed to take a picture of the historic occasion. :)

Hudson saying "cheese" for the camera.

Cara and Hudson

Then Pat's friends got together for an ugly sweater party. Lindsey was inspired to take our pictures from this hilarious site! Awkwardfamilyphotos.com This will make up for the lack of pictures. She's always on top of it.

The boys loving the white elephant gifts.