Toothless

Evan was sitting in the living room tonight and calmly said "I just pulled out my tooth."  Sure enough, he is now missing 4 (maybe 3.5).  Time to start the liquid diet.  There are 2 more loose - we are in trouble.

Other Christmas Pics

 Our attempt to get the kids in their cute church clothes.  Better luck next year.

 Our Christmas tree - it looked better before Grace redecorated it daily for a month, but still good.

 Evan is quickly gaining on Grammie, and he is very excited about it.

 When I was little my siblings and I sang "The Friendly Beasts" every Christmas Eve.  Our kids have now taken over the tradition and did a fine job this year.

 Graham helped out displaying the pictures for them.

 Trying to get the girls after church.  My daughter is always being goofy.

Another attempt to get all 3 girls - this time they all had matching outfits and bows. Go figure Grace had ripped hers out.

 The whole clan!  So fun to spend the week together.

 Grammie and Gramps and all of their great-grandkids

 Our little family.

Christmas Morning

 

Santa came through with a scooter for Kyle

 

and a ripstick for Evan.  Now if we could learn to use them.

Grace got this giant dog, which she loves still and says is "so cute."

Nice work this year Santa.

 

  We were with my entire family Christmas morning which was very fun.  Lots of chaos too.

 

 That is Grace's giant Minnie in the background.  She was a bit overwhelmed by it that morning, but since then has watched a few episodes of Mickey Mouse clubhouse sitting on its lap.

Evan had a mostly Diary of A Wimpy Kid themed Christmas with books, the dvd, and a puzzle.

 

 

 Kyle's favorite gift by far - his Angry Birds board game from my parents.  All 3 kids love it!

Kyle is into all things Angry Birds right now, which is funny since we don't own an iphone, ipad, etc.

Grace had a very Minnie themed Christmas.  The giant Minnie, a dog toy Minnie, a singing Minnie, Minnie sticker book, dvd, and Minnie beanie.  The girl loves Minnie, and she was very happy with all her Minnie stuff.

The kids had an awesome Christmas morning, got what they wanted, but not enough to overwhelm them which was great, and they are still playing with it all 3 weeks later which is even better.

Christmas Eve

 Decorating cookies for Santa.  He is lucky he got any because our decorators were very hungry, and not so hygiene conscious.

After cookies we had our Christmas program.We did the 5 minute dash for costumes, then acted out the nativity.

 The shepherds and our half-undressed sheep.

  

3 wise men

 

Mary and Joseph

 

Baby Jesus examining the gold, frankincense, and myrrh ( 3 snickers tins)

 

The Angel delivering her lines.

 The innkeeper.

Somehow I don't have a picture of my dad as the narrator.

 After the nativity we opened new jammies, read The Night Before Christmas, and headed to bed.  Poor Evan kept looking at the Norad Santa tracker and was panicked he wouldn't be asleep in time for Santa.  He finally fell asleep when Santa was in Vancouver B.C.  Lucky for us, because Norad said we were Santa's next stop. 

December Catch-Up

I am so far behind in blogging...be patient while we attempt to get caught up.

 I found some great deals online so the boys got new sweaters they love.

 Evan lost a few more teeth.  He is currently missing his top two, and one on the bottom.  There are 3 more loose, but it looks like some may grow in before any more fall out.

 They thought they were so cute

I wish we could get more pictures of his regular smile, but this one is pretty funny.

Gingerbread House

 Last week for Family Home Evening we decided to decorate this years gingerbread house.

 The boys had to think out where to put everything.

 I love the team work.  They like to put as much candy on there as possible, so to help we gave them some of the leftover Halloween candy.  Only a little of that left.

 Molly hanging out under the table - just to prove that she isn't always running around crazy.

And finally my attempt to get a cute picture of all 3 kids.  Grace has no pants on and Brandon is having to hold her arms down so she doesn't hit the house.  Oh well, it commemorates our evening.

O Christmas Tree

 

Black Friday afternoon we headed out to find our tree.  I attempted to recreate one of my favorite pictures of the boys.  Not bad, but not the same.

 

I love this picture.  Such sweet brothers.

 Grace was asleep in the car with my mom, we weren't just ignoring her.  The boys were super pumped they got to pick out the tree.  Not nearly as perfect as Brandon likes, but they loved it, and it looks awesome decorated (pictures to come).

 The boys even helped chop it down this year. 

It was a great start to the Christmas season.