Christmas Season 2008

Addison got this Bumbo seat from Lori and Ron, it is so nice to have so that she can sit up on her own and play, or eat her toys.

Hailey's favorite present was "Tigress". Her cousin Elyse had gotten one for her birthday and brought it with her from Boston. Hailey would not put it down. Luckily there was time to let Santa know how much she loved this toy and she was lucky enough to get one too.

Here is Jackson in front of all of his presents on Christmas morning. "Santa"(Gabe) had been really obsessed about getting this machine gun for Jackson, unfortunately when "Santa" was testing it out the night before he found out it was a dud. The elves left a note for Jackson saying that they had to much fun playing with it and had accidentally broken it so he would have to take it to the store to exchange it for a different one. We went a couple of days later and exchanged it for a more age appropriate one.

We had such a great Christmas this year. It seemed like it lasted a long time though because we started celebrating early. My brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Luke and Anna, and their family came out from Boston. They came out on the 16th because my niece Erika was getting baptized. Gabe and I were able to go out with Luke and Anna twice, the first time to a really nice restaurant in Salt Lake and then to Carrabas, it was nice to get out without all the kids. Then Tauni and Jared came out from Rosevelt on that weekend, so that's when the parties started. We had the Reichert Christmas party at Thanksgiving Point. It was a lot of fun but very cold. We ate at the Deli there and then went on a carriage ride to see the Christmas lights. After that we went back over to Ron and Lori's to open the sibling gifts and have hot chocolate and donuts. We went to the movie Bolt with Gabe's family on Christmas eve and then over to my sister Amy's house that night for our usual hor d'ourves and letting the kids act out the nativity scene. Then we went over to Ron and Lori's to spend the night. It was so much fun that morning to have most of the family there(we missed Rick and Carly). The kids loved all of there presents. Then Lori and Ron had their yummy Christmas breakfast (that's when Rick and Carly came over). After that we got ready and went over to my Mom and Dad's house. It is my Mom's birthday on Christmas, so she always says we don't need to get her a Christmas present but not to forget her birthday. We stayed over there for awhile and had Christmas dinner. Luckily my brother Sterling had made it in really early Christmas morning, after driving all the way from Kentucky with his truck full of furniture. Then we went back to Ron and Lori's for some games. We ended up sleeping over again that night (we kept really late hours while Luke and Anna were in town because we were always over there hanging out). My brother and sister-in-law, Ed and Noelle came into town right after Christmas. So we hung out with them on Sunday. We went over to my parents house to have dinner and then we played games. Tauni had taught us this really fun game called Ripple, you play it with Phase 10 cards, so we taught it to my family and then we played this other fun game that my brother Sterling taught us. We had such a fun time hanging out with all of our families. We also had a fun New Year's Eve party eating a ton of Fondue and playing more games.

I am so thankful to have the families that Gabe and I have. The kids all took their turns being sick. On New Year's Day we were going to go out to dinner with my family, Hailey was not feeling well at all and we ended up having to leave early. My parents and Ed and Noelle brought Jack back after and saw how sick Hailey was ( she would not stop crying for like 5 hours because of her ear pain ) so my brother-in-law Ken called in some antibiotics and then Ed and Noelle went all the way to Provo and back to get the medicine for us. We really appreciated them doing that for us.

Hailey and Elyse both got makeup and loved showing off how pretty they looked.

We had a white Christmas. We woke up to a few more inches of snow on Christmas morning, so Gabe and Jackson went out and used the four wheeler to plow all of the snow off the drive way.