The Gerratt Christmas

Yea.... it's Christmas time and we are so excited. I am excited to see and spend time with both our families. Scott is excited to not work for a while, Shaydon and Roxy are just excited to have us both around.

We started our drive to Utah on Thursday night after Scott got off work. We stopped in Burley because I had a dentist appointment on Friday morning. After visiting with grandma and grandpa Hunt & Gerratt we had lunch at Al's (we both love the chicken wraps and salad bar) and we were off to Sandy, Utah. We try to time it so Shaydon had just ate and hopefully will sleep most of the drive, he really is a good traveller. We made it to Ogden and stop ed for fuel and gave Shaydon a break from the car seat. Our or MY first stop was ikea!! I wanted to shop, but I also had a list of things to get. Scott was not looking forward to this trip. The last time we went was opening weekend and it was a mad house. Today there was no one there, so calm. Scott enjoyed this trip much better. We made it to Scott's sisters house by 6:00pm and she made us a delicious soup for dinner.

Saturday Scott went snowboarding with his nephews Jason & Logan at Snowbird resort. I stayed back with Shaydon & Wendy and we did some last minute shopping. I think I went to Target 5 times just this week. We went to the South Town Mall and it was so cool they have a mothers lounge!!! Maybe you have heard of it, but they have a separate place for you to take kids to the bathroom, a changing area for diapers and a mothers nursing area. I was really excited for this 1st moment. Later that night we had a visitor from SANTA!!! The kids were soooo excited and a little nervous but we very thrilled that he came to see them. We sang jingle bells received candy canes and took pictures with Santa. The Hardings sure out did themselves this year.

Sunday was the day we all did present with his family, now everyone (Scott's brothers & sisters) have arrived. We draw names and to a family gift. It is so fun to watch the kids open there presents. We were suppose to leave in the morning, but there was a really bad snow storm and we decided to stay and head to Burley on Christmas morning.

We just hung out and visited most of the day all though we did make one last trip to Target. We always eat too much and continually graze all day, but the food is so good & it is the holidays. Wendy bought everyone pajamas for Christmas eve. We had a PJ parade followed by a dice game with treats as prizes. We were up late putting together "toys" for the kids from _A__ta. Oh, all the girls did a mask once the kids went to bed. We were the Ghosts from Christmas past.

We headed out of Sandy by 10:00am and hit wall to wall traffic in SLC, there was an accident on the freeway with the snowy roads. I didn't know Christmas Day was a big travel day. We were at a stand still for 40 minutes with a crying baby. Shaydon loves the car, but only when it's moving. We made it to Burley just in time for dinner at my grandma Twylla's.