Wii had a great Christmas!

It's hard to believe that Christmas is over. The excitement hangs around in our house. We received a Wii for Christmas and the kids (and us adults) just want to play it. Last night we got a fun game for it that includes it's own foot pad. It's called Outdoor Adventures and has you stepping different directions on the pad to do what you are supposed to. I think this game will be part of my New Year's Resolution to get healthy. Man, it's a workout! I'll have to get a video of the kids playing it. It's so funny.
We have had a mostly wonderful holiday so far. Despite the snow, we made it to Cookie Day. It was great. Jake showed up from Utah. We had all thought he was coming in later that week, but he just couldn't miss Cookie Day. Which was good, because our cousin Kelly and her husband Kevin announced that they are EXPECTING! Wow! There was a lot of snow on our way home, but we made it home alright.
We went out to Souru Teriyaki for our annual Christmas Eve dinner. Just the five of us go and then we drive around looking at the Christmas lights before heading home. The snow stopped us from the lights, but we never miss the Teriyaki! Christmas morning was fun. It's always exciting to watch the kids open all that they recieved. Obviously, the Wii was a big hit. We were hosting my parents and my sister and her family at our house this year. We were so excited until Brandon took his morning shower. He came out from our bedroom to hear a funny sound in our garage. Our septic alarm was going off! I quickly called my mom (yep,32 years old and I still called my mom first!) and she said that we could ignore it for a day or two and just use minimal water. So we ignored it for Christmas and had a really great time. It was fun to have everyone here. We hope someday to have a big enough house to have both of our families here. We spent the next day at Brandon's parents house. We started with our annual breakfast at IHOP. It is usually on Christmas Eve, but some people were working so we changed it. We had a great time at the Kirkwood's house. It was so sad to leave that night knowing that we wouldn't see Meri and Dustin or Jake for quite awhile. But we had a great time with all of our family. That is one of my favorite things about the holiday season. We will spend New Year's Day up at Jeff and Lesha's house. WE're looking forward to that. On Saturday, we had people over to check our septic. The pump was broken and they could fix it on Monday. So after a weekend of yelling at the kids FOR flushing the toilet, it is fixed. And I have to say, money well spent. It was so annoying having to not flush or shower regularly. And all of our clothes needed washing and the dishwasher was full when it broke! Brandon is off this week, so we have plenty of time to catch-up and still relax a bit! -Pam-
P.S. I'll make a slideshow with pictures. We just haven't downloaded them all yet!