Christmas road Trip

The girls were suppose to go to Idaho this summer for the month of July to spend with Grandma and Grandpa Moser which I was looking forward to. Due to me quiting my job, my mom injuring her knee and several other things, the kids were not able to go on their trip. The baby was due just before Christmas so I was going to be on maternity, Chris would have 3 weeks paternity leave and Morgan was going to have a few week off of school so we decided to take a road trip at Christmas to visit family, so here we are. We took off Saturday morning, December 20. After 2 days traveling (stopping in Oklahoma for one night) we arrived in SLC at Chris's Aunt Anne's house at midnight. We were fortunate to spend 2 nights and the day with Anne and the girls, Sarah, Dianne, and Grandma Gert. We were able to go to dinner with the rest of the family including Callie and Andrew. My girls loved meeting and getting to know their dad's cousins better. Sam is planning on "the girls" to come to her birthday party. She doesn't get reality that they live far away and will not be able to attend, but she adores them and wants to invite them. After dinner we were able to take the girls to Temple Square to see the lights. They have added so many lights and nativities this year is was incredible. It was quite cold, especially for us Texans, so we were not able to spend a lot of time viewing all the sites, but the girls thought it was awesome. Here are some family pictures with Michael all bundled up, and the girls with Dianne, their new best friend.

Grandma Gert meeting Michael Luke for the first time.
Alex, Sam and Morgan in their beautiful coats from Grandma Boyer and Alex in her cute hat from the Tempest. They were playing in Anne's back yard. They couldn't wait to get out and play in the snow. We had packed all their warms shoes on top of the car and only had their crocks in the car which are not exactly great snow shoes. We had to go to payless and get some shoes that allowed them to play a little in the snow. They loved the snow and would have stayed out all day if we let them.

Our family on temple square with the lights. It was beautiful. Great memories here.

Morgan, Sam, Dianne and Alex. Dianne was such a great sport with these girls. Thanks Di. We love you.