A Very Hoover Christmas

Christmas this year was a blast and so busy... We woke up at 7 and wrapped our families gifts and then opened our stockings. We decided with a baby coming soon we would save the money and only get each other things for our stockings. At 9 we went to my bosses house and had Christmas morning with them which is always fun. Then we headed to Johns Moms house and made some mashed potatoes and took them to his aunts house where we would be having Christmas dinner. We ate and opened more presents. We are blessed with a caring family and received gifts we felt we were undeserving of but are thankful nonetheless. We then stopped at my dads house and spent a little while with him. And then we headed to some friends from our wards house for smores. We finally got back to our house at 11pm.... Wow what a great day.
The next day we went to Johns dads house in Jacksonville and spent the weekend with him and his family. They bought us some very adorable things for baby which we appreciate.
This year I made most of the gifts that we gave out and here is most of them..

This is a Rubix cube covered in pictures of me and my best friend Jennlyn that she will be receiving for Christmas/ her New Years Eve birthday!

We attending a Christmas party hosted by Johns aunt and she asked that everyone bring a homemade ornament. I made this one on the fly...

This is a cute gingerbread that my visiting teacher and friend made for me.. Its me and Baby on my hip... so cute

This is a plaque that John made for his family with a wood burning kit her received just before Christmas. He did so good.

This is a wall hanging that i made for one of the girls I nanny for. She loves the Twilight series and really enjoyed this one.

This is a picture frame I made for my sister in law. She likes music.

This is the loot John and I received. John got car washing supplies and some stress relieving balls for work and some candy and some Jacksonville Jaguar candy cane ornaments. I received lots of candy, a "i love mommy'' bib, a puzzle, Scrabble Slam card game, paints and letters that spell out the babies name for the nursery, and paint brushes.... Wow

We are looking forward to 2010 and all the amazing blessings it will bring to our family.

Hope your holidays were wonderful and stress free..

Until Next year blogspot fans.....