December

 

Well December has been a whirlwind!!!  Even after trying to mainstream everything so we could focus more on this special season it still seemed to fly by!!  We did get to do a few Christmas crafts, which the kids loved!! 

 

 

We bought a Christmas tree the weekend of Rick's birthday (which was a pretty quiet affair this year) we also put the Christmas lights up on the house that same day.  The kids really loved decorating the tree this year, and I left it exactly the way the decorated it!  On Ricks birthday we had cake and played a few games.

 

We started the elf on the shelf tradition this year which yielded amazing results from Matthew!!  Both kids had certain things they wanted for Christmas this year!!  The elf helped insure that their behavior was worthy of Santa's coming!  Matthew really wanted a tank and a skate board, and anytime you asked Lilly what she wanted from Santa her answer was simple, "princess."

 

We had our traditional decorating of the gingerbread houses with Rick's family which is always fun!  This year it was boys v girls.  so we ended up with two ginger bread houses!!  Matthew decorated his and Rick's almost entirely Rick applied the icing and Matt applied the candy!  Lilly was more interested in simply eating the candy so I was pretty much on my own!

 

The kids couldn't wait for Santa we had several countdowns going on around the house; advent calenders, Christmas chains and a chalk board count down!

 

 

Grandma got these cuties some super cute Christmas outfits!!

 

 

On Christmas eve we went on our traditional ride around town to look at Christmas lights in the motor home with my family!!  After looking at lights we headed home to put the kiddies to bed so Santa could come, but first Grandma read them a Christmas story!!

 

The next morning the kids were over joyed to see that Santa had come!!

 

Rick was pretty excited too!  We lucked out, we got to have Rick home on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day this year, we were very blessed all the way around this year!!

 

After we opened gifts we got dressed and headed over to my parents house for more Christmas festivities!!  I didn't take very many pictures of Christmas day I feel sad knowing I missed so many cute memories but I just kept forgetting...pregnancy brain I guess. 

 

The day after Christmas I took the kids outside to tryout some of their new toys!!

 

We truly had a wonderful Christmas full of love and blessings!!  I hope that the holidays have found everyone else in good health and happy!!  From our Family Merry Christmas!!