If our St. George cousins were hoping to visit a snowy Salt Lake, they were sadly disappointed. Instead we provided them with a soggy rainy weekend. I was happy for the rain. Rain in December means snow in the mountains and clean air in the valley. Lovely.
I don't like it when Christmas is over. So happily, we had more Christmas to celebrate with the Romneys. They arrived on Friday night, and though Sheri tried to get us to wait until Sunday to exchange our gifts for each other, the rest of us used our best peer pressure skills to open gifts that night. I love that we still have cousins we exchange presents with.
I was pretty excited about the things we picked out for them. For Peter, new sunglasses and a t-shirt from The Point (although I'm still waiting for the t-shirt to get here.) For Sheri, also new sunglasses and a cute drinking glass embossed with the title, "Chaos Coordinator." Which she truly is. Siena recently told me that she's obsessed with sharks. And she loves the color yellow. So I got my artist friend to sculpt a yellow shark, plus I found yellow shark earrings on Etsy. For Cara, who loves manatees and makeup, I got a microwaveable lavender-filled manatee stuffie and some lip gloss. Iva is in love with Winnie the Pooh, and I couldn't pass up this adorable jellycat Pooh Bear, as well as some sparkly markers. Sam got his dream come true - his own bag of Takis plus a book and a fidget toy. The takis were gone in under an hour.
They gave Troy some terrific biking socks, me some lovely fancy moisturizers and a butter ornament which made us all bust up because Sheri thinks I use too much butter and I don't think she uses enough. Chase got climbing gear, Romney hasn't gotten her gift yet (dang that mail!), and Emma got the coolest paintable dragon figure meant for holding a D20 die. So cool!
We really had a delightful weekend. They stayed all the way until Monday. We went ice skating. (Well, they did. Plus Romney. Troy and Emma and I watched.) We played a ton of games in the living room, both the board variety and video variety. We went to City Creek Mall and visited the candy windows at Macy's and Temple Square. Romney took Siena roller skating and we ate good food and I think I loaded and unloaded the dishwasher three times a day. It's what the holidays are for. Bless this family that loves us as much as we love them.
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