christmas break starts now.

Sterling and I both went down to his grandparents house friday night.

his grandparents are so cute and I always have a good time visitng them and feeling very welcomed at their home. They were watching the NFR down in vegas and we decided to watch with them.  His aunt kristy and cousin Nellie came and Nellie gave me this cute christmas gift which they didn't have to do at all. They are a cute PJ set. Pj top and PJ bottoms aren't they adorable!

then his grandma gave me high boot socks that I can wear wiht my boots so nice of her as well:

oh Sterlings family is way too good for me and they always make me feel welcomed wether it is visiting his grandparents in pleasent view or visitng his family in pullman washington. They are always nice enough to feed me and let me spend the night. to kind. always.

Sterling and I saturday morning went to his cousins soccer game at 11:00 she won! her team was actually very well. Sterling showed me this dot game he had on his phone and this was the first time that I played it I have seen him and Skylar and his aunt and grandma play this game but I never had an interest. Then i started to play it and had to beat Sterlings score so him and I were going at it with each other trying to get the high score. ha ha it was funny. i am addicted for about 3 or 1 week then i will forget about that game...but i will enjoy it now ha ha! my top score is 374 boo yeah! ha ha sterling still has yet to beat mine shhhhh! 

His grandparents were so cute and made us a delicious breakfast with bacon, chocolate chip muffins, hashbrowns, orange juice. yum! i was satisified!!

then we got ready and I had family names that I brought for him and I to go to the Brigham City Temple and do baptisms.

we went at the perfect time. I called to set up an appointment but the lady said they were full so to walk in and they would fit both of us in. we came right after a youth group was leaving. It worked out perfect. This was Sterlings first time doing baptisms at the Brigham city temple he went for the open house but hasn't been able to go. It was a special for him to go with me and to do the family cards my mom gave me to do. I had five names for him and I had three names for me.  It was a treat to have Sterling baptize me and do the conformations for me.  Oh man do I love this guy. he seriously is the best and the timing has been perfect and dating him has been the best thing for me. I loved when he said my last name before doing the baptisms and conformations. Being in the Lord's house and feeling the love the Savoir has for me and being in the Lord's house with Sterling was a treat.  The temple workers are always so cute and very helpful. I love their service and they brighten my day everytime I see them at the temple. They literally are the sweetest and I hope to be able to be a cute temple worker one day for when youth come in I can let them know they are welcomed and that they are loved ;)  

Then after the temple went to his grandma's house and changed

then off to Salt lake City we drive ha ha

Since my family is going to be gone this Christmas day and Sterling will be with his Family in Pullman I thought we should have a Christmas dinner before becaue my mom has these really cute Christmas plates and cups that needed to be used this year. We then have planned this for about 2 weeks ago and it was finally here yeah!

Sterling and I played a round of ping-pong while my mom was still finishing up preparing dinner

I beat sterling just saying ;) ha ha

then we all ate at the dinning room table with the Christmas Plates:

i had to take a picture and instagram it:

there is never a dull moment with my family that is for sure. wether it is the funny converstaions we have at the table, a joke that is said, my brother plays music tunes on his glass cup, etc it is always a time to be grateful. I love my family so much and loved that we were all gathered at the table and Sterling was able to join us. I love seeing how they interact with him making him feel apart of our family as well. He is just way to cute! ha ha 

dinner was delicous: home made lasgna (which is Sterling and My favorite food) then salad, rolls, egg nog, diet coke, dr. pepper, brownies, cookies, ice cream, yum yum yum! I was full to the bone

then after we all gathered in the living room and I put all the White elephant gifts that each person brought on the middle of the table.

then I wrote numbers 1-7on a piece of paper and passed a silver globe around and each perosn grabed a number.  Then who had number 1 started the white elephant gifts...which was my brother David ha ha he picked sterlings gift to start then the next perosn who had 2 went and so on. It was sooooOOOOoooOOO much fun. we all definalty got some good laughs weather it was the glass Duck richard open, the banjo nut cracker my sister opened, the tiger blanket that everyone wanted, the ginger bread man, the bobble head. oh man good laughs for sure. there was one gift left over for some reason we had 8 gifts. ha ha so I pulled up the White elephant story on sterlings phone and read the story and if i said LEFT they passed it left if I said RIGHT they passed it right....it kept getting passed and ended up with David ha ha Good times for sure!

here are the boys and their white elephant gifts:

here are the girls and are white elphant gifts:

tiger blanket was the best:)

it was a fun filled evening with my family and I was glad Sterling was able to come. i love white elephant gifts and always get a good laugh....memories created.  gooood laughs.

Then sterling and I drove back up to Logan. oh man i love the drive to logan to salt lake or salt lake to logan...it goes by so fast and is such a pretty drive. I loved being able to see the christmas lights while driving back home to Logan.