Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

I guess I should blog about Christmas before every last memory is gone from my mind.

On Christmas Eve, we spent the night over at my parent's house. We had a yummy potluck dinner with my parents, my brothers and their families, along with my Aunt Marilyn and my Grandpa.

My kids favorite part about Christmas Eve is getting new jammies from my Grandma and Grandpa.

Luckily, we had enough cookies leftover from dinner to leave out for Santa.

Thanks Em for making them, Santa LOVED them!

My kids were so excited to look over the railing and see their presents!

Christmas Parties

It seems like Christmas was forever ago and yet I am barely getting around to blogging about it. I am going to summarize Christmas week in one or two posts. Watch out for a billion pictures!

We party hardied with Clint's fam:
(too bad we didn't pull the camera out till the end of the party)
We had a yummy dinner and then watched the family video that Clint put together of most of the pictures from our get togethers from the last 10 years. (sniff sniff) It turned out wonderful! Thanks Babe for all the many hours putting it together.

Grandma Terra with most of her grandkids


We went to a Christmas Sing-a-long.


We had a rockin' party with my fam. We celebrate Christmas with my mom's side of the family every 23rd of December. It is a tradition that I hope that we never get rid of. (do you hear me guys?????) We had a yummy dinner, got to visit with the REAL Santa, watched him do his magic tricks and then the adults played the white elephant game.I think the kids were all mesmerized with Santa's magical powers!
(the girls in the family are a little outnumbered wouldn't you say)

Even Bentley couldn't figure out any of his tricks:)

Troy was chosen to be a helper!


Santa even called some of the adults to come pay him a visit: Wonder if they were naughty or nice this year????

Carter's Christmas Program

Carter was so cute at his Christmas Program. He practiced his part ("when out on the lawn there rose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.") and had it memorized. But when it came time to say it, he stood up and just smiled so Ms. Hillary came to the rescue and reminded him what to say. He pretty much is the comedian in the family and had us all laughing while he performed. They sang and danced and he loved every bit of it.

I LOVE CARTER SO MUCH!

Carter pulling one of his many funny faces!

Carter's "favorite Ms. Hillary"

Best Buds

Grandparents Day

A couple of weeks ago,

Troy got to celebrate Grandparents Day at school.

What a handsome dude:)

Troy was lucky enough to have his Grandma Sue, Grandma Terra and Grandpa Bruce come. Along with his our family:)

They sang us some songs!

We had cookies and milk.

And then Troy got to show us his classroom and some of his projects.
He was very excited to show his grandmas around.

We love our little Troy Troy!

Ward Christmas Party

This years ward Christmas party was short and sweet.

Yummy Dinner

and

Visit with Santa

Right here Carter was asking for a REAL machine gun

(aka toy rifle at Walmart)

and a REAL rocket launcher. Too Funny:)

Blakley didn't know what to think about this whole Santa thing.

She wasn't scare, she just couldn't take her eyes off of him.