After Christmas with the Campbell family!

One of the great presents that we received this year for Christmas was that of a visit from Christy's family from Virginia. A few weeks before the holiday, Christy's Mom, Dad, and little sister (Taylor) decided that they would brave the weather and drive out here. On a last minute decision, her older sister Jackie also decided to come out.

They left from Virginia on the 26th and got to our house, after driving through terrible weather, late in the evening of the 27th.

It was good for Christy and Gabbie to have a chance for her to meet her "other" Grandpa and Grandma and be able to spend some time with them.

Gabbie loved being watched by so many people who cared so much for her.

Both Aunt Jackie and Grandma loved holding Gabs while they were here. There never seemed to be a time when someone didn't want to hold her.

Gabbie fell in love with her Aunt Gabbie. On a future post we will show you some more fun pictures with Aunt Jackie.

Gabbie loved Grandma, cause finally someone would burp her until all of the burps were out. Usually Mom and Dad lost patience after the first or second burp. Sometimes Grandma could get 4 or 5 good burps out.

For part of the Campbell's trip out here, we decided to take some tours of the local sights... You know, I've lived in Utah for a long time, but didn't realize that, unless you are going to go into nature, the majority of our sights are religious in nature.

On one day we went to visit the Krishna temple that is close to our house. On another day we decided that we would take Christy's family up to temple square. We really had a lot of fun on these excursions, but I think that the most fun that we had was when we went to BYU to go bowling. It's become a new family Christmas tradition:

Grandpa decided that he wasn't going to bowl... After Jackie's hand started hurting, he finally conceded to finishing her game. Then we understood why he didn't want to play with us... he got three strikes in a row... I guess he didn't want us to all feel bad cause he was such a good bowler.

After the Campbells left on sunday afternoon, they hit a big snowstorm and some serious accidents on the two ways that they had to go home. They ended up getting stuck and having to come back to our house for another night. We know that the trip they took ended up costing them a whole lot and having a lot more stress than they probably would have liked. We were so happy that they came though. We were seriously glad that we could spend the time with them and that Gabbie could meet them in person.

We love our Campbell family!