MEWWY CHWISTMAS!!!

This is in front of Tom and Annette's Christmas tree after zone conference on Christmas Eve.

This picture summarizes our Christmas Eve. After finally having the last zone conference done and returning from a Christmas party, we tried to watch a movie. As you can tell, I'm the only one that was able to watch it.

Brady woke up earlier than anyone at 9:00 and took pictures of the "children" waking up on Christmas morning.

I saved these jammies for Brady to open up here in Jackson.

The parents present from the whole family.

My new sweater!

You can never have too many ties!

These are our looks of pure shock and gratitude. We had accepted the fact that santa wasn't coming to Mississippi, but to our utter shock he definitely delivered! THANK YOU TOM AND ANNETTE aka santa!!!!

It didn't take us long to break out our present

This is by far my favorite part of the day. It was so much fun playing rock band 2 with Tom and Annette!

After our Christmas partying, we went for a drive and walked around a swamp.

We didn't see any alligators, so we did our best to imitate them.

Thank you Tom and Annette for a wonderful Christmas!!!

I'm goin to Jackson!

Brady and I flew out to Mississippi on Friday morning to see his parents for Christmas, but first on Thursday night we saw the lights at temple square. During a talk in sacrament in Louisiana, Brady's mom reminded everyone that Christmas lights are symbolic of how Christ is the Light of the World. What a magnificent display there is around the Salt Lake Temple. It really got us in the Christmas spirit. This is in the Joseph Smith Building. It was beautifully decorated too. Today is his birthday so it was wonderful to to be reminded of our wonderful Prophet and all that he has done.

We finally made it to Jackson, Mississippi on Friday night.

This is Brady's super excited anxious look when we first saw his parents.

It is so good to be here with them. It felt like we hadn't see them in FOREVER, and now if feels so normal to be here, it is hard to think that we won't be able to drop by every week.

They gave us one day to relax to fool us into thinking that they had spare time and then the next day showed us the real craziness of their lives. So far we've driven 9 hours, been to five big cities, and two states, been to three different hotels, had two zone conferences on back to back days with another one tomorrow morning, and wrapped over 600 presents in newspaper for the missionaries...all in three days. This is Brady living off of 5 hours of sleep every night for three days. No, really we are loving it, we don't mind the sleep deprivation and we get way more than Tom and Annette.

The missionaries playing the garbage can game. Probably the biggest group that has ever played it!

Aren't they just the best looking Mission President couple ever!

Me and Brady with the Shreveport Louisiana zone.