Christmas Eve Family Home Evening

We had a nice Family home evening at our house this year! It was fun to be home and have Grammy and Papa with us! We enjoyed Cafe Rio, singing Carols, nice little lesson from Daddy, giving a gift to Jesus (Jonathan's was being more reverent at church), and then we took some pictures, wrote a letter to Santa with a Santa cookie, and then read a Christmas story and scriptures and off to bed!

Sarah enjoyed leading!

As you can tell, the kids where so excited!

I just love this one!
One of our family tradition is we wear red pjs to bed on Christmas eve!

Craig stopped by with the girls!

Writing a letter to Santa! I just love them working together with Daddy!

Santa came! I just love the magic of Christmas!

Santa Cookies!

On Tuesday afternoon we decorated our traditional Santa cookies at my parents. The kids each decorated one star!

Gordon being my happy boy!

Preschool Christmas Party

So on Tuesday was my day to have the Preschool co op, but we had a little Christmas party and all the Mom's came and did a little party so it was manageable around Christmas time. We first made a few ornaments! I loved the glitter ones!

Last we did sugar cookies (but I put it out of order)! Sarah enjoyed herself, and just couldn't get enough sprinkles and frosting:)!

They played a cute Christmas present game. There were different paper presents on the wall. Each child took a turn being blindfolded. Once they were blindfolded the other kids pointed out one of the presents. The blindfolded child was given a bow and had to try to discover which present to put the bow on. The other children sang a Christmas Carol. If they were close to the correct present, they sang loud, but if they were far away they sang soft. It was a super cute game!

They also did a little gift exchange. They all brought a little present and put them in the middle of the circle. They each drew a number and went in order of the numbers to pick a present.

Then they played "Santa, Santa, Elf" (Duck Duck Goose)

It was a fun party. All of the kids really enjoyed it.

Chrsitmas Eve

We had a wonderful Christmas Eve. We went over to my parents and had Mexican dinner and then played chimes, and sang Christmas Carol's. Dave played the violin and I played one song on the piano. The chimes were lots of fun cause the kids really liked them!

Sarah just loved the singing!

Playing the chimes!

My little Sarah bear in her pjs.

All in red- ready for Santa!

Brother and Sister- very excited for Santa to come!

Jonathan helped Daddy get cookies ready for Santa. Jonathan made the Christmas tree earlier, but he wanted to give that one to Rudolph! I thought it was very sweet!

Celebration

It was a GREAT evening together! We went to Carrabbas, we loved it! The food was wonderful, we were stuffed! Our waitress surprised us with a dessert and that just pushed us over the top! IT was fun to talk and think about the past year and what is to come! It was very enjoyable and relaxing. Then we went over to Mall to walk off a little of what we had and got Dave a new cologne. Then we headed to the nickle arcade and that was a lot of fun! I think one of the highlights of the night was watching some of our wedding video. IT was fun to listen to us talk about how we met and how Dave proposed! It is wonderful to hear those things that we felt so long ago! It think that was one of the best investments that we did for our wedding! I love you sweety, and look forward to many more wonderful years to come!

My Birthday!

Love from my Sweety!

What a treat, breakfast in bed with my kids!

(There just wasn't a great picture of me first thing in the morning!)

Jonathan enjoying Breakfast!

Sarah enjoying some of Mommy's Breakfast!

Trying on my new clothes!

Don't we look gorgeous!

The girls at Mimi's

Sarah and Great Great Grandma

Jonathan giving Lavette a kiss!

Sarah just drummin' her lips with her hands!

Sarah (11 months old), Jonathan (2 years)and Mommy

Blowing out the candles!

My Birthday was lots of fun! I can't believe that I am 28 years old! I still don't feel 28 years old, I feel 25 years old. I never think about how old I am till it is my birthday. I remember as a kid your Birthdays just seemed magical, no it seems like another day! However with that I had a really fun day (it was over two days since my Birthday fell on Sundays). Saturday started with a early rise with Dave and my kids bringing me breakfast in bed. It was a great surprise, I absolutely loved it! Then we got ready a little and I opened my presents (so that I could wear some clothes that I got). Dave went to work, and I got a babysitter so that I could go out with one of my sisters and my mom. We went and had our make up done. It was so much fun! We all loved it and want to do it again! Then we went to lunch at Mimi's, which they sang Happy Birthday and gave me a piece of pie. (I forgot to post, but when we got home Jonathan had the rest and he was in Heaven!!) It was lots of fun to hung and enjoy ourselves! Then that night Dave and I went out to dinner, but Dave surprised me with beautiful Roses. I love it! Then we went to Chinese and enjoyed our time together! Thanks so much Beth for babysitting, if I could find a babysitter like Beth that is a teen I would be in heaven! On Sunday we went to Church and that night we had Mu shy chicken, I haven't had it in so long it was great! Thanks mom for making what I wanted! That was always a fun tradition growing up, my mom always made what ever dinner we wanted!! We enjoyed being with Grammy and Papa, Grandpa and Grandma, and Great Grandma. Then we played some games! It was really fun and an enjoyable weekend, and I didn't have to work, it was wonderful! (There is a lot of pictures, but there was so many to pick from and I did so much- just enjoy!)