Christmas Day

We had a wonderful Christmas!  The boys loved everything Santa brought and were so very excited.  It is so much fun having little one's at Christmas.  We went to Grandma and Granddaddy's for lunch and spent the afternoon there.  We had a yummy lunch and boys loved giving and receiving gifts with them.  Unfortunately I spent most of the day in bed.  I made myself stay up for the most important parts and then hit the sack.  Luckily no one else in my family got what I had!  Hopefully next Christmas will be a healthy one! 

Christmas Eve Evening

Well we had a great and crazy Christmas Eve.  Needless to say it is one that we will not forget.  I was feeling awful all day but of course had to push through for my kiddo's.  Some other crazy things happened but it all worked out!  We relaxed and enjoyed each other in the morning and then headed over to the church for the afternoon.  After church Pam and Brad came over for our traditional Christmas Eve dinner, Salmon Stew.  After dinner we let the boys open up their gifts to each other and the gifts that we give them.  The best gift that they received all Christmas was a new kitten.  They were so surprised.  We put her in a box and they had to open it quickly.  They all couldn't believe it and fell in love with her immediately ( its a he but at the time we thought a she).  They wanted to name her something Christmas so they decided to name her after my childhood cat "Mistletoe".  They remember her and they immediately said that they wanted to name her that.  I will say, Mistletoe is the cutest kitten, most loving, and is just awesome with the boys.  We ended up having a great Christmas Eve after all despite the Crazy day!!

 

Henry's Loot

Walker's Loot

Big Boys Shared Loot

 

Foster's Loot

 

 

Christmas Eve Service

The past couple of years we have been in the Christmas Eve Service at our church.  I was the angel and Eric and Walker were Shepard's.  We love being able to be a part of our service at church.  The Christmas Eve service is one of our favorite things to do during the holidays.  The boys also sang in the service.  Of course they didn't want to but we made them do it and they did but not too much singing came from them. Neither of my boys like being on stage in front of a lot of people.  They looked cute and smiled and that was all that mattered!!

 

Cookie Decorating!

We had so much fun making cookies for Christmas.  Foster was more into playing with the water in the sink than anything.  As long as he was having fun we don't care what he does! Walker and Henry were being perfectionist when it came to their cookies.  I can see a cookie competition in our future....Hey we do have boys don't we?  The cookies turned out great!  We ended the evening with a "polar express" ride in the car to go look at Christmas Lights.   It really got us into the Christmas spirit!