Christmas Eve

I have a gazillion pictures from Christmas Eve and Christmas, but I'm trying to narrow them down. On Christmas Eve we have a big party at my parents house. We open gifts from my parents and siblings, then my grandparents and my cousin and her kids come over. We eat a big dinner, then head to the church gym to break a pinata. After that we do a small nativity play then open gifts from my grandparents. They give everyone matching jammies. I mean each age group gets matching jammies. Anyhow, its a lot of fun! Here are a few pics. Oh, and for the nativity this year, Savannah was Mary and she got to ride on my 13 year old nephew, Tyson who was Joseph.

We saw Santa!

Last night my whole family went to see the lights and Christmas Village and to see Santa. It was freezing! When we first got there both kids were loving it running around looking at all the lights. Then Lincoln slipped on some ice. He screamed and threw a fit for a good twenty minutes. At this point we were about half way through the line for Santa and I was desperate! Finally I said to him, "Lincoln if you keep throwing a fit like this Santa will know that you have been naughty! You better start behaving to show Santa what a good boy you are." Shockingly, it worked! He didn't make another peep the rest of the time we were in line!

Then it was time to go see Santa. Both of them did very well! In fact, we had 4 babies and 3 kids with us, and they all did great! Savannah asked for, "A new Leapster because somebody stealed mine," which is what she's been asking for for months, Lincoln asked for gloves. I guess the elves may have some last minute shopping to do!

All in all, we had a great time! After we saw Santa we looked at more lights. Savannah was pretty grumpy all night, but today she is sick so I guess that explains it.

Bad decisions and bad counting

Ok, two quick kid funnies, one for each kid.

Last night I put the kids to bed in their room. This morning I woke up with both of them laying practically on top of me. The following is an early morning conversation between Savannah and myself.
Me: Little Miss, last night I put two little monkeys to bed in their own room, and this morning I woke up with two little monkeys on top of me. How did that happen?
Savannah: Did you put up both gates?
Me: No.
Savannah: Did you put up one gate?
Me: No.
Savannah: Did you close the door?
Me: (feeling a bit like an idiot at this point) No.
Savannah: Well, that was a bad decision.

Lincoln is finally starting to talk more, which leads to learning many other things. As we were driving today I heard this from the back seat:
"One... two... three... zebra... cow."

I don't think he quite gets the whole counting thing.

Its Begining to Look a Lot Like Christmas!

And not just on my blog either. I finally got around to updating the blog with the Christmas look today. It isn't right. The background is supposed to be smaller dots with trees on the sides. I can't remember how to make it the right size, and well, its finals week. I don't have time to mess with it.

I did have to do it though, because I've been waiting a week and a half to get a Christmas look up so I can post this. My house is all ready for Christmas! Not only is it all decorated, but I managed to get all the decorations up, gifts wrapped under the tree, and food cooked in time to have about 15 members of my family over for a pre-Christmas celebration the Sunday after Thanksgiving! Go me!!! We did have one small disaster though. I went to decorate my tree and all my ornaments are gone! The entire box is gone. I have no clue what happened since we have moved twice since our last Christmas tree. All my kids special ornaments, the ones they made, our first ornaments from when we got married... all gone. I cried. Luckily my mom had purchased a huge set of gorgeous ornaments to give to my brother, then he didn't end up needing them, so they are mine now. And I love the new look of my tree. Even if I do miss all the ornaments Savannah has made. Enough pouting, on to pictures!!!

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

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