We had such a fun Christmas, the only complaint is that it went by way too fast! On Christmas Eve we first went to The Hogan's for dinner, opening PJ's, Secret Santa gifts and watching the cartoon Grinch Who Stole Christmas. Then we went to my Aunt Polly's Annual Christmas Eve party for homemade chicken noodle soup, pretzel jello and the Name Game.
We slept at our house and woke up early on Christmas morning to open presents and to a huge snow storm! Then we went over the my parents to open presents and have breakfast. Thanks for everything mom and dad, you spoiled us WAY too much!!
Mom, Meg, Katie and me in our cute Christmas PJ's (please ignore my just-woke-up-face in all of these pictures!)
Dad and all his girls
The traditional picture--we line up every year from youngest to oldest to walk into the living room to open presents
My cute parents
Eating breakfast by the fire
My parents tree------------------------------------------------------------
After finishing up at my parents we went over to my grandma's for the annual Rawlings family brunch. I look forward to this every year, the food is amazing and its so fun because almost the entire family is there.
The Bagley Gals
The Bagley Gals-----------------------------------------------------------------
After brunch we went to The Hogan's for presents, more yummy food, games and visiting Al's grandparents.
The real adventure started when Al and I got home at about 10:30 that night. We pulled into the garage, got out of our car and tried to walk inside but the door was locked! Al went around the house trying break in but he had no luck. Oh and don't forget that it was a snow storm outside! Snow + Locked Out=Awesome--NOT. And yes, no one we know had a key and we didn't hide a spare anywhere, who needs a key when we have a garage code?!
So we decided that we might as well call a locksmith since we'd have to in the morning anyways. So we google texted "24 hour locksmith, South Jordan UT" and got a few different numbers to call. We called the first number in West Jordan and they say they'll be here in 20-30 mins. Well 30 minutes go by and no one had come. We call again, (we have to call a "call center" who then calls the technician who then calls us, very annoying) and the technician calls back saying that he's at 7200 S and I-15 so it'll be another half hour (oh and he barely speaks English and he doesn't speak Spanish either).
So another 30 minutes go by and he's still not here. So we go through the marathon again of getting a hold of the guy and he says he's at 98th and Bangerter, so like 10 minutes away if that. Another 20 minutes go by and he's still not here. In the mean time we are driving around the neighborhood in circles to keep warm and we were not in good moods! This could have been pretty funny and I even thought about taking pictures and making it a funny experience but those of you who know Al know that he does not like situations like this and he does not handle them very well!
So at 12:30am, after waiting for them for 2 HOURS Al just decides to cancel it. Oh also, they were going to charge a $50 fee + a service charge for the work the technician does which is usually another $100. After we canceled it we tried calling 5 more numbers that came up in the text and THEY ALL WENT TO THE SAME CALL CENTER! Again, awesome. What the crap? We were so bugged. Luckily my best friend lives one street over (who I had tried calling throughout all of this but she didn't answer) so we called and called and called and called and called until they finally answered and we went and slept over there! Thanks Meg and Nate, I don't know what we'd do without you living so close! So Al called a different company the next morning who was here 20 mins later and only charged $60 flat.
So there you go, our Christmas was perfect until that-but at least we have a funny story to look back on. Moral of the story...give a key to all family members and friends.
I hope you all had a great Christmas!
