Christmas Day

Ho Ho Ho, Merry Christmas! We started the day off early at 6:30am and that was after sending kids back to bed twice at earlier times. The kids know if they want to open any presents they have to let me get a few photos. Here they are all bright eyed and bushy tailed ready to open presents. They started off with their stockings then we moved on to presents. Then each took turns opening gifts from new Legos, dolls, PJ's, makeup, art supplies, robot bugs, easy bake oven, shark air swimmer and more. We had a wonderful Christmas morning followed by cleaning up paper and boxes then onto taking things out of their boxes and playing for hours. :) 

Here is Alysha and her new Madame Alexander Doll

Ashley with her new Madame Alexander Doll

Owen with his shark Air Swimmer

Alysha with her presents from new clothes, makeup, Wii games, hair straightener, Hello Kitty laptop sleeve, and doll

Ashley with her new dolls, clothes, Easy Bake Oven and doll beds

Owen with his Lego's, Hexbug larva, Hexbug nanos with habitat, crayola glow book, PJ's and shark air swimmer

The Grinch

Mike with his new mini helicopter, it's been a huge hit.

Mike and Owen blowing up the shark

SHARK!!!

Owen and Shark taking a quick break

The girls in Ashley's room playing with their new dolls. I haven't seen them all afternoon, must be fun!

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve we went to Grandma Reva's house to celebrate with Mike's side of the family. Here our the kids in front of her tree. They had fun playing with cousins, eating lots of goodies and opening presents. Then we came home to our little tree and we got ready for bed. They left cookies for Santa and carrots for the reindeer.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.......

Alysha and Amanda

Landon and Stacy

Owen, Ashley, Lexi, Alyse, Scott, Layla and Alaina

Landon and Alysha

Alysha, Landon, Amanda and Mariah

Cousins

Our tree at home.

Santa's cookies and carrots for the reindeer.

Cookie Decorating

We went to my sister's house yesterday to decorate some Christmas cookies. The boys weren't to into it but Ashley and Delaney had a great time.

Molly and Delaney decorating cookies

Ashley decorating cookies

Girls taking a tea break



Girls playing outside.

Early Christmas

We went to my mom's house for an early Christmas. We had a nice time and the kids had fun playing and opening presents.

Ashley and Owen with their new marble run from Molly, Will, Mason & Delaney

Alysha opening a present

Owen with a new remote control snake

Mike testing out Mason's new guitar

Ashley with her new tea set

Alysha with her tennis shoe bank

Grandpa Jack helping Owen put batteries in his snake.

Night full of dancing

Last night was Ashley's ballet recital and Alysha's first school dance.

Ashley did a wonderful performance with her ballet class from the Canyon Dance Academy's Winter Recital at the Caldwell High School's Auditorium. They were little sleepy time girls where they danced then fell asleep on stage. Then little fairies sprinkled sleeping dust on them and danced behind them. Followed by Santa checking to see if they were asleep then he placed two ballerina dolls (really teenage dancers) on stage. The dolls danced then the little girls woke up to see the dolls. It was a packed house full of family to see the kids dance.

Alysha and her friend Jacobi spent a few hours straightening Alysha's hair and deciding on what to wear to the dance at Heritage Community Charter School. I stopped in at the dance a little early to take a few photos of the girls. Looked like they had a nice time.

Ashley's ballet 1 class dancing on stage

Santa checking to see if the girls were asleep

Ballerina doll dancing behind the sleeping girls

Ashley after her performance with her new ballerina ornament

Jacobi and Alysha getting ready for the school dance

Alysha at the dance

Alysha with her friends at the school dance.

Melted Snowman Cookies

This morning we decorated cookies to take to my mom's house tomorrow for our early Christmas. They are Melted Snowman cookies with some assembly required.

Owen making a few space ships.

Ashley making a tree cookie

Alysha making snowmen.

Snow People

So I've been keeping myself busy during the day working on these snow people for the kids' school lobby. Mike trimmed them and added cardboard stands on the backs and they are now ready to go to school. 

Holiday Crafting Party

We spent an evening at grandma Reva's making fun holiday crafts. We made clay ornaments, wooden candle ornaments, hand print santas, thumb print reindeer cards and munched on wonderful snacks and desserts. 

Cousin Lexi and Aunt Ruby making clay ornaments

Alysha and cousin Layla painting wooden candles

Owen and Aunt Kristey making clay ornaments

Alaina, Alysha, Grandma Reva and Aunt Carla painting

Layla enjoying a yummy candy cane.

Landon and Uncle Scott hanging out by the tree

Alysha adding a flame to her candle

Grandma Reva putting the finishing touches on her desserts

Alyse, Alaina, Lexi, Ashley and Layla with their hand print santas

Our very own GRINCH!