Merry Christmas To All

Another festive Christmas has come and gone. The boys last day of school was Friday December 17th so Hyrum and I had to come up with some fun activities to keep them busy all last week. Fortunately we have lots of Christmas markets to visit and Auntie Paige came to play on Wednesday evening and stayed until Christmas. Hyrum only worked one day last week and so we were able to spend a lot of time together as a family. We hope you all enjoyed your holiday!

Townsend and Emerson dipping candles at the Nuremberg Christmas market

Nothing beats a warm Nuremberg sausage on a roll when you are out walking around in the cold

Julian at the dinosaur museum in Bayreuth.

Julian throwing snow onto the frozen pond at the Hof Garten in Bayreuth

Townsend and Emerson were allowed to play a bit with Daddy's ipod touch on the train ride home from Bayreuth.

The Christmas Eve feast. We had invited the Senior Missionary couple, the Rivera's, over as well as the young Elders. We also had a lady from our church named Martha as well as Paige here, so we had a full and fun house on Christmas Eve.

Paige at our Catholic Cathedral here in Pressath. We Johnson girls have a tradition of going to midnight mass on Christmas Eve. It was really nice to hear Silent Night sung in its original German

The tree on Christmas Eve. Hyrum and I stayed up until 2:00 AM wrapping gifts and getting our new tv set up.

The Durtschi traditional Christmas morning breakfast. Rolls and cocoa, a German Christmas cake called stollen and some orange juice

We had to take this picture fast, Julian is not a fan of hats!

The boys in front of the Christmas tree on Christmas morning

Julian sort of understood Christmas a bit more this year. He did unwrap a few gifts and played for a bit with some toys but then he got bored with the whole thing and began playing with his old toys.

Townsend and Emerson unwrapping the gifts they bought for each other

I think Julians favorite part of Christmas morning was playing with all the wrapping paper!

The post Christmas morning mess

We went sledding on Christmas day. We had gotten almost a foot of fresh new powder snow. We thought it would be perfect for sledding but it turns out all that fine powdery snow blows up into your face as you sled down the hill and makes for one very cold ride!

Auntie Paige and Julian on the sled

Did I mention it snowed a lot over Christmas? It took a while to shovel our very long driveway but we finally made it possible for Auntie Paige to get out and on her way home.

Merry Christmas Everyone!