**overload on pictures...just for you mom, cause you asked. :)
Merry Christmas! We have had a wonderful Christmas season. Kyler has been so excited for Santa to come. He has been asking for days if it is Christmas time yet. I loved every minute of it. We had our friendly elf Alfie come for the first time this year and we adored him. He was so fun to have around. I loved waking up every morning to the most excited boy when he had found where Alfie was hiding and what he was doing. Brookie loved when Alfie was mischievous with sweet things, like the day he took a marshmallow bath, or when he brought candy cane seeds that grew candy canes. Towards the end she would be excited when she could see him too. I think Kylers favorites were when Alfie would decide he needed a long nights rest and would be found in his bed with him. Those were ironically the days when he had the hardest time finding him too, but once he did he was so excited he got to have a sleepover with Alfie.
At our Ward Chirstmas Party we saw Santa for the first time this year. Kyler....LOVED it and i got my all time favorite picture there on my phone. Brookyln, she was a mess.
The season was busy busy as usual, so we didn't get to do an advent type activities like i would like to, but the kids had a great season i think. We did make it to one holiday advent i have wanted to do for years. I just found out that Fountain Green puts on a live nativity. So on the 22nd we drove the 45 minutes, took a hay ride and got to see baby Jesus, and the town of Bethlehem. It was so special and so fun. Kyler loved the donkey and sheep like i suspected. But that boy loved baby Jesus. The next morning he was up early and came in running and seriously gave his mom a heart attack when he woke her up by yelling, and i mean yelling, that he loved seeing baby Jesus last night, and that he was soo cute!!!! Love you Ky. Mom thought for sure her heart monitor she is wearing right now was going to freak out with how scared she got when he came in so unexpectedly and loudly. :)
For the Childs Christmas party we all met together, had great food and visiting. Brandons one cousin just had a baby 2 months ago and i had to steal the cutie from his mom :). But, then Kyler wanted to steal him from me. We decided to share cute baby Braxton. Kyler loves babys. He keeps begging for me to go to the drs and get our baby sister taken out (remember we dont know what it is for sure, but ky 'knows' its a girl) He adored Braxton. I adore my sensitive/nurturing boy. Brookie, Oh she hated him. She didnt want anything to do with him and tried to push him away from me. I think we are in trouble. She isnt a nurture, she is the fighter of the family. We keep saying she is going to have to be Kylers protector in school. :)
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| My fruit plate for the party. I think its pretty! |
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| Kyler stole my camera for a bit at the party, he took this picture. I love it. Kyler and Huestons boots. |
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| Look at that pure happieness, so much excitment!! |
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| Look at that fear and trying to get further away from that scary scary man! (yes she is wearing a boy shirt. She decided to play in the drinking fountain and got soaked and in the diaper bag all i had was a spare shirt for Kyler. |
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| As close as she would get...and still has her nercous biting her own finger thing going on. |
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| She got a tea set, and has LOVED it. Her favorite thing is mommy will let her put water in it. Messes, oh the messes. But all for a good cause. |
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| Kyler got a nerf gun. He loves it. I hate the darts all over my house. :) |
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| It came with two guns, so Ky and Hueston pulled up two chairs at the party while the parents did thier exchange and shot the glass doors. |
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| Me, Ky and baby Braxton. |
Christmas Eve we packed up all the presents under the tree, packed some clothes and headed one town over to Grandma Jo and Papas. There we played with our cousin Hueston, made cookies for Santa, and finally watched the Nativity movie and read Christmas books before Ky and Huest got to have a sleepover in the playroom downstairs together and Brookie, well she is too little for that kind of special treatment :) She slept in the pack n play with mom and daddy. Brookie had been kinda fussy and clingy all day Christmas Eve. She went to bed early and we were praying she would snap out of it by morning. In the pictures to come you will see no such luck happened. In fact she is now, 4 days later, still a sick little girl. She is still as white as a ghost, everything still running right through her. Poor girl.
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| Look at that tongue hanging out, i love it. |
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| Christmas Eve in thier new Jammies Alfie brought as a fairwell gift |
They woke up Christmas morning, ok so we technically woke them up about 8:30AM. Brooklyn had woke up and we decided that it was time for Christmas. :) So we got the boys, they woke up the rest of the sleepy house (6 other adults) and we all gathered in the front room waiting ever so patiently (or not) for everyone to get up and head in. The boys were greeted with a room bright and full of colored paper and boxes. Santa had even left footprints where he came in from the fire place!! Kyler and Hueston had one unwrapped present ready to go....Ky a police truck and Huest a police car. They took them for a loud spin around the room before settling down to open a slew of presents. Brookie, well Brookie felt yucky. She sad with daddy while he pretty well opened all her presents. Not a smerk came to her face, no when she saw her hot pink cozy coop, not with all the candy out of her stocking, but when that puppy bear turned on and she could hold it, that was the first attempted smile of the morning. We continued to open presents. Played, made messes, had some breakfast, ate candy, watched movies, ran around, and fought over each others new toys. :) Perfect Christmas day.
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| waiting for everyone in the front room |
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| Poor baby doesnt feel good |
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| still trying to wake up |
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| Childs police force |
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| cleaning up santas footprints |
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| Kyler got an innotab from santa....just what he wanted! |
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| the fav puppy bear |
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| Gma Jo and Papa got him a bike with pedals.....he has lots of learning to do! |
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| Kyler made us a calender at preschool for mom and dad |
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| She loves her coop |
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| Inside Brookies new tent |
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| Brooklyns Loot |
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| Kylers loot |
Then off to bed early from a long happy for ky, sick for brookie day.
Now we are home. Toys are put away. Rooms rearranged to accommodate the new slew of toys. Mom was a little over zealous to get her new house looking like she wanted so down went the tree, down went all of Christmas. I wish i felt bad, but I have to say it makes me happy to have my house back...well i never really had it to start with, we moved in and put the tree right up a week later. The kids are lovign their toys and loving being home with no other kids here!
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| where are the kids.....inside playing with new toys. Perfection |
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| Kyler LOVES his 'ipad' its an innotab by vtech but he calls it his ipad and he loves it. Brooklyn loves her colors and purse. |
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| eating with her tea set spoon |
Christmas has come and gone. We are all happy and all but one are healthy so i count that as a special Christmas holiday. Hope you all had a wonderful one. Here is to a Happy New YEAR!!
