Yes, there is a Santa and he found all of us. We had a great Christmas.
Amy had Christmas dinner waiting when we came home from visiting our other Arizona families.
Amy has her Nativity beautifully displayed in her home
We enjoyed visiting Amy in her home and seeing her Christmas lights.
This has been a wonderful Christmas. We look forward now to a great new year in 1910.
Fred and Rauna and family had a great Christmas with their first grandson, Maland and his family visiting from Utah. He enjoys the rocking horse they gave him and everyone enjoys just watching him.
Adrianne gave Grandpa a Cookie Monster toy to display with his famous poem about the Cookie Monster.
Fred gave Rauna and Dale fur hats for Chirstmas like the one he has.
Joann made the Mortensen's a fun personalized Moronopoly that they will enjoy playing.
There was lots to see and do at the Mortensen's. They had a great Christmas.
Ray and I went over to the Ellingson's and Mortensen's to see their Christmas while Amy stayed home with her Dad and finished our Christmas dinner. Jordan made a helicopter for his little brother Ryan from the erector set he got for Christmas.
Tyler shows us the dart game he got for Christmas.
All Quinn wanted for Christmas was more computers.
Marlene makes waffles for her family from the waffle iron we gave her.
Mark is enjoying his granddaughter Rachel and her parents who are visiting from California for Christmas.
I am so grateful for our beautiful children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. The family is indeed "Love that Lasts Forever".
Most of all I am grateful for my eternal sweetheart of fifty years and that we can spend another Christmas together surrounded by our family and loved ones.
Ray knows that I love chocolates so he gave me a box of Sees Chocolates and his Dad a gift certificate to Chili's.
Ray pulls out his new cookware that we gave him for Christmas.
Dad tried on the robe that Amy gave him for Christmas. This should keep him warm.
Amy gave me a new jacket.
Ray also got some new luggage for Christmas. It is so fun to give gifts and to see their excitement at receiving them.
Amy poses by her bookshelf that we gave her for Christmas. She enjoys fixing up her home and likes this bookshelf because it is unique with different cubbies for books or souvenirs. We are anxious to see it all set up in her home.
We gave Flip Belgian Waffle Makers to all eleven of our children for Christmas.
There is such a joy in giving meaningful gifts to your loved ones at Christmas time.
I will enjoy the new tablecloth that Melvin and Tami gave us.
Ray is showing Amy the new cookware we gave him for Christmas.
We enjoyed watching each other unwrap their gifts. I like this new shirt I got for my sweetheart.
Miriam gave us a great scrapbook she had made of all of the great family times we had all year celebrating 50 years of being a family.
Amy and Ray enjoy each being home and unwrapping their gifts.
Ray shows his clock that tells the time, date, temperature inside and out, etc. I also gave his Dad a similar clock so he will always know what day it is.
More fun unwrapping gifts. Ray and Amy were fun to have here for Christmas. They are always so good to us.
Our next event was to see what was left in our stockings.
We found an orange, various candies, a car duster, toothpaste, a little hoe, bungee cords, envelopes, pens, animal crackers, etc.
Dad checks his stocking for more goodies.
After we emptied our stocking we shared telling what we had received.
It is our family tradition to begin Christmas morning with races around the tree. Amy and Ray decided that Dad and I should also race for the first time this year.
Amy had a time of 8.31 sec. to come in first.
Ray had a bad ankle so his time this year was 11.52.
My time was better than Ray's this year with a time of 11.02.
Dad had a good time racing around with his walker for a time of 20.24 seconds. We had lots of fun with this silly tradition that began in my childhood home as I was growing up.
Our Christmas Eve activities began with a candle light dinner.
Followed by a program. Ray sang his Dad's song, "Mary Sweet Mary" and we read the Christmas story from the New Testament and the Book of Mormon and had our Christmas prayer.
We then opened our traditional one gift that was alike for everyone. This year we had fun red Christmas stockings and gloves.
It is tradition to think of a clever way to pose to show our Christmas Eve gifts.
All four of us had different kinds of Christmas stockings that were fun to wear.
Christmas Eve Amy drove us around in her new car to see some of the Christmas lights.
We saw an entire Bethlehem village displayed in a back yard of this home.
I liked all the sheep shown in the field outside of where they had Bethlehem displayed.
The lights on the top of this home say, "Unto us a Son is Given". 
Every house on this street had beautiful Christmas lights and decorations.
