The Big Day!

BEFORE

AFTER

CHRISTMAS

Crazy Christmas

Christmas was a little crazy this year. We had Christmas with my family at our house on Christmas Eve night. We had food & dessert plus LOTS of presents! The kids had a great time and got some really great things from my parents & the aunts & Unlces.

Christmas Morning Rick had to work, but was able to go in a little later, so that he could spend time opening gifts with the kids. We weren't surprised that our kids didn't wake up early (They never do) We had to wake up the kids on Christmas!!! I mean who does that?! LOL

I am having trouble loading pictures from Christmas morning, but here is JC's face at 8:00am. He looked at me with this look of "it is way to early to get up"

I will keep trying to load more pictures from Christmas Morning, but all 3 kids took about 20 min to really get into the spirit of opening gifts. They sat around just vegging and looking at the wrapped gifts for about 20 min. before they really got into it. They of course got tons of stuff, Wii Games, Toys, Toys, & More Toys, Eevie got a Video Camera & much more. Overall it was such a wonderful Christmas, espcially b/c our kids know that Jesus Christ was born on that day & that is the number celebration.

Each child got sooooo many gifts from my parents, but I will just leave you with a few of the pictures.

Here are some pictures from when my family was over on Christmas Eve:

December~Christmas~Parties~Six Flags~And Much More!!!

ANNUAL CHRISTMAS PLAYGROUP

Every year since Eevie was just a toddler I have hosted a Christmas Playgroup & Book Exchange. This year the kids expressed that they were tired of doing a book exchange every year so for the big kids we did a Art Supply exchange! It was nice to get all the kids together while they were out of school, and be able to just play freely & exchange a small gift with a friend.

Since both of the older 2 are in school full time now we were able to host 2 playgroups. One for the little guys and one for the bigger ones. This year we have spent a lot of time with just babies & toddlers while the older 2 are at school. We did a book exchange and the babies had such a wonderful time playing together.

SCHOOL CHRISTMAS PARTIES

I am the room mom for Eevie's Class this year, so I was in charge of creating a fun Holiday Party...due to this responsibility I was unable to take a lot of pictures. I still can not believe that she is in 3rd grade! It just flies by so quickly. I enjoy working with Mrs. Murray on a regular basis on different things that are going on in the class! The Holiday Party was super fun, we did Crafts made of food, Played Christmas Bingo, and much more!

I am a regular volunteer for Ricky's Kindergarten class, and although I wasn't in charge of organizing the Winter Party, I sure was busy helping get ready for it. Kindergarten is just sooo fun. They were all hyped up on sugar and having such a great time. Ricky has the same teacher Eevie had when she was in Kindergarten, so I have gotten to know her throughout the years and really enjoy working with her and helping her prepare for lessons. For the Holiday party they colored on the high tech computer board, ate tons of junk food, and played musical chairs! What a great way to end the first 1/2 of the school year...Celebrating with friends :)

SIX FLAGS

We took the kids & our neighbor Skylar to Six Flags Holiday in the Park. The weather turned out to be great! We weren't surprised that Ricky is a rollercoaster crazy! That is all he wanted to do is ride rollercoasters. Unfortunately he wasn't tall enough to ride some of the really tall ones. Maybe next year! I am happy though, because I will finally have someone else to ride rollercoasters with since Rick doesn't like them. :)

Eevie liked the spinning rides and things that went up & down like the airplanes and such. We saw Christmas Lights, ate funnel cakes, rode plenty of rides and warmed up by a real campfire. It was such a fun time!