Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve 2010 was very special for me.  I was able to have my whole side of the family at my house to enjoy the holiday.  My Mom and Dad, Lance and Dawn and their family, Mitch and Kiley, and Lee.  It was a very full house and soooooo much fun.  I will never forget it.  Altogether we had 15 people at my house and it was very special considering everything Dad went through the past few months!

On Christmas Eve we always have the nativity story told for Family Home Evening/Christmas Eve Evening.  Dad told it from the bible.  We started out with singing Christmas Hymns and the Christmas songs in general.  Thanks to Mitch and Lee we had a little Josh Grobin action because they think their deep singing voices are awesome with Ave Maria but you know...

Singing and taking pictures...who knows why we insisted on this, but it is Mitch and I. Isn't that enough said!

During Christmas we wrap up Christmas books that we have collected over the years and let the girls open one a night until Christmas.  On Christmas Eve they always get a new book to add to the old ones we have collected.  This is Kyleigh opening the new book which happened to be the hallmark Charlie Brown's Christmas.  You were able to push buttons to hear music while I told the story.  It was very cute and the kids took turns pushing the buttons and loved it!

Bailyn, Nickole, Jacob, Kyleigh Rae, Trevyn and Macoy in the front middle.  All in their new Christmas pajamas and ready to go to bed...so sleepy right!?!?!  I don't think so Mommy!

There's Something About Christmas

Innocence!?!?! Right...there really is something about Christmas isn't there?  Trevyn has been sleeping very well through the night now for about a month or longer.  Like 12-13 hours.  Now guess what?  Since I am blogging at 5:00 in the morning on Christmas Day, yes he woke up at 4:30.  I wish I could say that he was the first to wake up, but I believe Kyleigh Rae was awake at 2:30 and is still downstairs wondering what time it is.  I have my whole side of the family here including Grandpa and Grandma, Uncle Lance, Aunt Dawn, Nickole, Jacob, Macoy, Uncle Mitch, Aunt Kiley, and Uncle Lee.  Here in a few minutes I will probably go see who is ready to get up...but in the meantime, I really thought I would have to wake Trevyn up on his first Christmas, but apparently kids will be kids!!!

First Kiss

Kyleigh has what I would like to call a little crush on a boy at her school.  He is not in her class, he is in the other kindergarten teacher's class, but apparently they play together at recess.  About a month ago she told me that there was a kid she played with at recess named Cannon she said, "I think he's handsome!"  The handsome was drawn out.  I just had to laugh.  So for the next few weeks she talks about him and stuff but nothing too big.  So on Sunday Bailyn needed to go to the bathroom towards the end of sacrament meeting and I took her.  I saw Cannon in the hallway, realizing that he must meet in the ward before us.  I thought it was interesting and later that day I asked Kyleigh, "Guess who I seen today?"  She said, "Who?" I said, "Cannon."  She said, "Oh...he tried to kiss me on Friday!"  I was like what?!?! and she proceeded to tell me that he tried to kiss her, but she ran away because we can have friends, but we can't have kissing friends.  I told her that was right and that we don't kiss boys until we are at least 16!!!  She then said that if I see him again not to tell her...whatever that means!  Between you and I she really does have a little or maybe BIG crush on the boy!  So on Monday she came home from school and I asked her to go check the mail.  As she was walking out the door she told me, "Cannon kissed me today."  I again was like what!?!?  I asked her where and she pointed to her cheek.  I asked her what she did and she said she ran away and went and told the whistle lady.  Then she went and played with her other friends.  As I picked her up from school today, she was getting ready to get in the car and Cannon came up to her to show her something.  I asked her about it and she got all shy and embarrassed and didn't want to talk about him.  WOW!  I think I am going to have to watch this girl!

Christmas Lights

We went to the Ogden City Christmas lights on Monday night for Family Home Evening.  It could not have been a better night to go.  It really was not that cold...I have been to MUCH colder, and it was a lot of fun.  As you can see, Trev pooped out on us, but the girls loved every little shop and had to talk about every little detail.  They also had a place where you could mail your letters to Santa, so we dropped theirs off.  When we came home we had some yummy hot chocolate!  'Tis the season...

Tired...

Sunday morning we were getting ready for church and I put Trev in the swing.  He ended up falling asleep like this and I couldn't resist.  He is just so cute and I can't imagine that this is in any way shape or form...comfortable.  But you do what you gotta do!

Just DANCE

So we tried out a new game for the Wii called Just Dance.  The girls fell in love with it and I tell you what, Bailyn can move like I never knew a three year old could.  Uncle Lee brought it down and when he left the girls asked if we could play the dance game.  I told them it wasn't ours and they didn't believe me.  So they looked at our wii games and couldn't find it, but eventually we might have to get it.  They were both doing really well and were so cute at it.  It can give you a little work out too!  I must admit that my triceps were sore the next two days after playing!

Visiting Santa at the Mall

So we went to the mall to see Santa last week.  We took our own camera and the rules were one picture and we had to stand behind a taped line.  Anyway this was "THE" picture we took and surprisingly we were able to get all of the kids to look at us.  Poor Santa, Trevyn really liked his beard and kept pulling it.  It had to have hurt and so I finally took him away from Santa even though Santa said he was ok.  The girls asked for their Leapsters among other things, but we all had an enjoyable evening.

Dads and Donuts

The first Friday in December, Kyleigh's school did a Dads and donuts.  They went to school early and enjoyed eating donuts while Dad read to her.  We took this picture before they left for school.  They definitely enjoyed the donuts and the reason I can tell you this is because I volunteered in her class later that day.  I saw a cute little boy with something all over his face and thought it was cute.  Then I seen my daughter and she had stuff all over her face.  I am very particular about her making sure she washes her face before she leaves and couldn't believe how dirty it was.  Then I realized that she had donuts after she left the house and Daddy forgot to have her use her napkin!