Merry Christmas 2010

           This Holiday started off with Jaer crawling on top of the table and thinking he was superman. As he realized he couldn't fly he landed on the leg of his high chair! The goose egg developed quickly! But he didn't shed a tear! Tough little man! So this is his bruise just in time for Christmas where I like to take a million pictures! Good job baby boy!

SANTA CLAUSE VISIT::

 This year Jaerick was overly stoked to see Santa! He thought he was a pretty cool guy!  He told Santa he wants a "Ike" (Bike)

Mommy's little helper!

Jaer helped mommy get ready for our dinner we were throwing! It was adorable!

 CHRISTMAS EVE DINNER::

 This year my sister Jennifer and I decided to start a tradition and throw a Fancy Christmas eve dinner for our family!

 It turned out so beautiful! Grandpa thought it was the most beautiful dinner he's ever been to! ( What a sweet man!)

 This Above is the kids table! And this BELOW was the Adult table!

I have to say I was impressed with us!

 Everyone LOVED all the yummy food! We did the traditional Ham, Funeral Potatoes, Raspberry Jello Salad, green bean casserole and rolls! We also had Hot Cocoa and Hot Apple Cider!

 On the kids table I put a white piece of Butcher paper and the kids got coloring crayons on their place settings. These were the pieces of art that were made! It was a life saver to keep the kids entertained while the adults enjoyed talkin'!

 Following the dinner my sister Alisha put on the white elephant game for the kiddos! It was so cute!

 These were all the prizes the kids ended up with!

 Then we went and visited Tims family. Sorry No pictures. But that was fun. We celebrated Tims Dads Birthday ( Dec. 24th) and then did our present swap! We got so many things! Jaer got this car from Crystal that plays music he LOVED it! Then Darcee got him the cutest football shirts and they gave us a date night package ( we are so excited to use it!) And Tims parents gave us a $200 gift card to Khols. We came out with so much! It was so fun to see all the kids so excited! Then off to my parents again!

THE CHRISTMAS MOUSE::

Every year since my mind can remember we've had the tradition at my parents where the Christmas mouse comes and visits when we are in the business of celebrating and brings us our Christmas Pajamas! It is always the same one year the Mouse tried to give us all Scriptures and we weren't to excited about that! Haha! So this year it was before our Drive to look at the lights! Everyone got the cutest Pj's it was SO fun!

OFF TO SEE THE LIGHTS::

 This is the funnest little tradition. We put down the seats in my dads Tahoe and pile everyone in! Yes Adults AND kids! You really can't move when we're all in. Then Dad drives us all around playing Christmas music! We had SO much fun! It was just Jen and My Fam and our little bro T this year. ( Which is pretty common) We all piled in and off we went. We went caroling at my dads best friends house and then went looking at all the lights while singing at the TOP of our lungs! It is SO much fun! This way it wears out all the little kiddos and once we get back they are ready to fall asleep!

 SANTA MADE HIS VISIT::

 There is never ANY room to sit in the room with the tree ( even minus the three other families that don't come) and every year we say we should organize it but every year we like it messy and like the time it takes to find the gifts and hand them out! It was SO fun! ( One funny thing if you look at the pic and see the box with the car seat that SO isn't a car seat but after wrapping hours on hours that one only got a box!) hahahahahahahahaha

TIME FOR CHRISTMAS!!!

 All the kids line up youngest to oldest and make there way to the tree to see if Santa came!

 First comes the Stocking of little Jaer oh Dear Santa filled it well!

 Jaer went for the candy and filled his mouth! Then it went through the presents and thought it was so cool!

Then off to see what big present Santa Brought! HIS BIKE! He was SO SO SO Happy!

 Mom made the Pull Apart Bread! YUM! I wait ALL year for this!

Grandma and Grandpa TJ ( My parents) Got Jaer the Stink the Garbage truck that talks and interacts with you and he plays with it all the time in the stores but ( probably because we got up at 6:30 am) he was so scarred of it! It was pretty funny though!

 Christmas was so fun! I just love seeing all of the little kids faces and see how happy they get! 2010 has been a pretty crappy year in our family many. There were a lot of Happy oh wait Psych Out moments and it makes it hard but next year we are focusing on making it a GREAT year No matter what! Bring on 2011!