Utah Trip Part 4 - Christmas 2017

Somehow Santa Claus figured out that we were not in the far away land this holiday season and fit a stop at Oma’s house into his very busy schedule, or maybe it was because Mican’s family was there, and her kids were definitely on the “Nice List”. Either way we woke up to filled stockings that we found by the only Christmas tree in the house!

Morning discovery

Christmas morning with the cousins.

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The moment the kids discovered the "wad of money" from Oma!

Emma and Lexa

Oma

Rocky and Mican

 After breakfast, the Mayos left to celebrate Christmas with Roger’s family, and we continued with our family presents. This year the girls decided to do something like a “Secret Santa”. They each draw a name of one sibling for whom they were to get a present. They did it all on their own and they really put a lot of thought into picking the presents. And then we witnessed the most beautiful moments: the joy on the girls’ faces when they opened each other presents, was priceless! Each of them later said that they were most excited to see a happy smile on their sister’s face when she opened their present. I was a proud mama!

Sophie 

Sophie is opening her present from Lina

Lexa is opening her present from Nika.

Lina's excited face when she realized  she just got headphones from Papa (she was always complaining that the earphones on the planes fall out of her ears)!

Nika

Nika gets her pedometer from Papa. 

They all opened their presents from us at the same time. They all got Instax Cameras for Christmas, something they dreamed of but did not expect to ever get.

The rest of the day we spent watching Christmas movies and visiting with family that stopped by to wish us all a Merry Christmas. And the girls spent the day catching the memories on their new cameras.

To be continued...