Merry Christmas

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house.....








Not a creature was stirring not even a mouse.







The Stockings were hung by the chimney with care in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there

The Children were nestled all snug in their beds. While dreams of sugar plums dance in their heads..

Merry Christmas Everyone!

The true meaning of Christmas

A Christmas Tag!

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?wrapping paper they look better under the tree
2. Real tree or Artificial? Real 25$ vs 150$ you do the math
3. When do you put up the tree? 1st free weekend in Dec
4. When do you take the tree down? New Years Day
5. Do you like egg nog? Love it!
6. Favorite gift received as a child? Ten speed bike
7. Hardest person to buy for? My brother and brother in law
8. Easiest person to buy for? The kids
9. Do you have a nativity scene? yes
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail (on my to do list)
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? Can't remember
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? The Christmas Story
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? August or September
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Yes
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Chocolates
16. Clear lights or colored on the tree? Colored on the tree, white out side
17. Favorite Christmas song? Mary did you know
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? stay at home (traveling would require Jeremy to actually have time off!)
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? Most definitely
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Star
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? one present on Christmas Eve(pj's of course), all the rest in the morning
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? My desire to give is bigger than my piggy bank.
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? My kids pick a new ornament every year so we have a hodge podge ranging from batman to a ballerina.
24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Doesn't matter as long as there is family there.
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? Jeremy to be home once in a while

Okay so now I am tagging Bec, Chris, and Papa.
Merry Christmas!

Santa

Olivia's preschool has been planning this for weeks.

I pre-paid.

We were so excited we were going to see Santa.

I got Olivia up and dressed her in her best Christmas outfit.

We went to the Oakland house a historical home which hosts Santa every year.

We watched a puppet show and heard a story all about Santa.

We even ate cookies with Mrs. Clause.

All this for our picture perfect moment.

This is what I got.!!!

Okay so she wasn't so sure about the big red guy and, I guess mom was a little more excited then she was. To her defense she wasn't feeling well and I didn't know that. She fell asleep in the car on the way home (@ 10:30) and spent the rest of the day in bed. Oh well I still think it's a great picture!

Thanksgiving

Happy ThanksgivingI know it's a little late to be posting this but, it really was a wonderful Thanksgiving. Aunt Tara flew out from Salt Lake to spend a week with me and the kids. On Thanksgiving Aubry came to visit, she brought along those two others that live with her. LOL. All in all it was a day filled with family and enough food to feed a small army. But hey, that's what Thanksgiving is all about!