The Best Christmas Ever!

Kailer keeps saying.. "Mom this was the best Christmas ever.", and it really was. We had such a wonderful Christmas season. We love Christmas.


Santa ate the cookies! And he left his hat!


Kailer's lego train.


Umm, mom? This was in your closet, so I thought it was for my birthday.


Kodee was too scared of her big toy, but she loves it now, and is already walking behind her shopping cart.


Helping Kodee hurry and open her stocking so she can go take a nap.


The kids and their stocking madness.










We opened lots and lots of presents!










My favorite gift was from Brian and the kids. They went downstairs, and when they came back up, Kai had a little box, Katie Beth had beautiful flowers, and Brian had a poem. He read me the poem about Mother's and the kids gave me my flowers and gift. It was a mother's ring, not something I have ever wanted before. It was so sweet and I love it. I love my family.

Santa Baby

He ate our cookies...

and filled up our stockings...

and left presents under the tree(well kind of).

Thanks Santa Baby!

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve is always a very special day for our family. I love Christmas Eve.
Every year we...

get to open one present. Any present. It doesn't have to be jammies and it's not just for the kids. I opened bacon. That's right bacon. I about died laughing. Really? Bacon? I should hate you Brian. Instead I love you more because you gave me nasty bacon.





make reindeer food and sprinkle it on the lawn for the reindeer. The next day, our lawn was green again (from the green sprinkles that colored the snow).



make chocolate chip cookies for santa. They go on the corner of the piano with a tall glass of milk. Santa loves our cookies and milk.




read the Christmas story. We were only going to read 10 verses and we got through 43 with out pulling our hair out. Now I know how long my kids can really sit still.


and have a big yummy dinner. We do our holiday meal on Christmas Eve so that Christmas we can just have a fun day of playing with the kids, taking long naps, eating leftovers, and spending lots of time together.

The North Pole

Check out Kailer's "illustration" of the North Pole.

It's our family, Santa, elves, doors, snow, presents, and cookies.


Here is a close up of St. Nick. Glasses but no beard. I guess he shaved that day.


He even wrote out North Pole.

Oh Christmas Tree..

seven months..!

Little musha Kodee is 7 months already. Time is flying and I hate it! She continues to be the best baby in the world. She is happy and smiley and sweet and cuddly and beautiful and mmmm we just love her. She loves loves to eat. I mean like you wouldn't believe. She eats all day and never gets full. I mean really baby girl? Slow down! She can feed herself finger foods, she figured that one out pretty quick. When she cries if she's angry her mouth is completely shut (she just makes me laugh), and when she smiles it is wide open. She crawls everywhere now and has discovered door stops, they make her smile. :) Ko Ko is pulling herself up more and more everyday. Today we had to lower her crib so she didn't flip out of it. She still won't sit up, if I sit her up, she will stay for a while, but she just doesn't get it yet. We think it's her peg legs. ;) She is getting too big too fast! I love my perfect little bambino!

A Thankful Day

We had a yummy Thanksgiving dinner with Brian's family. It is always nice to visit and catch up, and the kids looove going to Utah. Me too..I am in love with Utah shopping. Nothing like an all day black friday. :)

over the river and through the woods..

to grandmother's house we go.



I ran out to run out to get a few last minute things the night before we left for Utah to go to Brian's families house for Thanksgiving. When I came back, Kailer was so excited to show me that he had packed for Grandma's house all by himself. He had all these bags half filled with random things. His clothes bag had his train hat, a pair of shorts, a pair of underwear, 2 pajama bottoms, 2 t shirts, and 2 mismatched socks (one of which was my dirty "cupcake" sock). It took me longer to "unpack" than it did to "repack". Oh Kailer.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

From my little turkey's!