Christmas

After we finished up at home we headed over to Mike's Mom's.  His 3 sisters, and sister's finace were already there! We opened the biggest mountain of gifts ever, for hours, and then made and ate a yummy brunch. I forgot to get a family PJ shot this year, but be assured we were all Christmasy! Later in the evening we headed over to my Dad's, but we were getting the flu at that point and I forgot the camera.

You can kind of see the mound of gifts in this one... There were way too many.

Christmas morning at home!

On Christmas morning I woke up first at 6.  Colden and Lexie got up at 7, and then we had to wake Jason up because we didn't want to wait any longer!  Jason only wanted a Toy Story Garbage truck and added on a Garbage dump after being asked what he wanted so many times.  Both things we under the tree. I love these pictures.  They aren't centered and no one is ever looking, but the kids are just so happy!  I especially love the ones with all 3 kids and the cat in them! We played for a little while before we headed to Grandma's for brunch!

Christmas Eve

During the day before Christmas we are always busy geting ready for the big party at Mike's Aunt Arlene's house. Our little elf Ben was busy too.  He stuffed all of our stockings with brand new Christmas pjs/

Homemade cakepop bouquet =)

We didn't really get any photos.  It's just too hard to rangle 3 kids and take pictures too, and the kids just wouldn't cooperate!

The man cave... I took it over this year and turned on cartoons... the kids just couldn't stay up that late without some distraction.

UPK Holiday Party

Amy, Lexie, Colden and I went to Jason's school to watch him sing with his class and eat some cookies together! The kids looked super cute and even had little tails on their back sides. When we go to the eating portion, the little girl that was standing next to Jason on stage, got "sick" right on the table where everyone was eating!  I think we know where our latest round of flu came from.

Gingerbread house

Breakfast with Santa 2011

We all had fun going to the mall to have breakfast (french toast sticks) with Santa.  Lexie's excited reactions to seeing all the characters is just priceless to see!  When she sees someone in costume she screaches, jumps up and down smiling, and covers her mouth with her hands in disbelief... So cute! She wouldn't take a pic with Santa though.  The boys are also a bit afraid of Santa, but Jason faces his fear for the sake of toys, and Colden' doesn't really have a choice!