Saturday, January 28, 2012

December 2011

I don't think that I have ever had a bad Christmas and this one didn't disappoint. It seems like we celebrate the whole month of December! I don't know what I would do without my big ole family. Seriously, Brock and I never imagined that we would have four kids, but I can't even begin to think about what life would be like without any one of those 4. They keep us busy and they keep us very, very happy.

Our first Christmas party was the Edmonds party. We had a great time visiting with that side of the family. The following is a picture of all of PawPaw and MawMaw's great grandkids....Averie, Hannah, Halle, Kaden, Jaxson, and Connor.
Next was the boys' Christmas parties at school. This is a picture of Connor and his buddy, Peyton.
This is a picture of Jaxson with his best bud, Brett.
Every year we make and decorate Christmas cookies. This year Connor decided that he didn't want to make cookies with us... :(
We had the Jackson Christmas party next, at our house. I made LOTS of cookies and had them ready for the kids to decorate at the party.

This is a picture of me, my parents, and my siblings. I'm not sure when the last time we have taken a picture together.
All of the grandkids are in the picture below. We have all been blessed with wonderful kids. I wish that we could all get together more often.
We had a great time decorating cookies, eating dinner, and opening presents. Kaden and Halle were pooped.

The exhausted kids woke up to put out food for Santa's reindeer.

We also put out cookies and milk for Santa.

Christmas Morning!

Brock and I have said since we got married that we love our extended families and will spend time with them for Christmas, but Christmas morning is for just our little family. We always spend the morning eating breakfast and opening presents. This year Christmas was on a Sunday, but several of us were under the weather so we stayed home. Here are a few pics from our morning.

We spent the whole day playing and spending the day together.

The next day we went to Tony & Debbie's to have Christmas with them. The kids always love going to their house.

(Halle loves Papa and Nana even though her expression doesn't show it ;))