Today was a FUN day! For part of our Christmas gifts to the kids we told them that we were going to take them tubing and that next year we plan to take a trip over Christmas break rather than celebrate Christmas in the traditional way we've always done it. When we first mentioned this, they both looked sad, almost like they wanted to cry. Questions like "will we still get presents" were shouted out and we asked them "what did you get for Christmas last year?" to which they couldn't tell us. We then asked how our first trip as a family to Lake Powell was and they "got it." We shared our savings jar with them and told them they will have no thoughts of gifts when we are having fun spending time with each other on a trip. We really want to encourage making memories together and not just getting gifts and stressing about how go who what. We figure since we aren't celebrating the day for religious reasons, there is no need to continue on a tradition that we grew up with and it's nice to know we can start our OWN traditions for our little family.
So onto the fun, we took the kids up to Soldier Hollow to go tubing. It was a blast, we all enjoyed ourselves. Alissa had fun trying to stand up and dance while being pulled up the mountain, while Zach and Alan were off going down the bigger bumpy hills. We stopped at a little diner in Heber on the way home and really just enjoyed the day. That's not to say it didn't come with hic-ups like Zach throwing a fit about Alissa sitting on the seat wrong and almost losing dinner or me getting my usual anxiety on the ride up, but I'm learning to enjoy the over all picture rather than focusing on the few things that don't go just right.
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