Christmas Morning 2009

Christmas Pj's

My sweet Momma sent us a box to be opened christmas eve that was filled with Christmas Pj's for the whole family. We thought it would be perfect to take a family picture in our pj's all ready for santa to come. It was a lot of work!! If you have seen my facebook post about this then you know ;) but we did finally get one good picture!!

Ready for church

Last Sunday morning Abby and I got up feeling sick, so I decided we would stay home and Daddy and the boys could go to church. What I didn't realize though, was that while I was busy making sure the boys were getting dressed for church Abby had decided that she would get herself ready. When Jason opened the door and told the boys to load up Abby thought she was going too. She was sooooo mad when she couldn't go and who could blame her after she had gotten dressed all by herself.

Later that evening she did get to go to church. Cold or not I wasn't going to miss the Christmas Pageant that the boys had been looking forward to all month. Gabriel did beautifully! I am not sure if Noah actually realized he was in a show while he was on the stage.he, haha, but he did pretty good considering. He stayed in his spot and he sang along to the parts he could remember. He absolutely loved singing "We wish you a Merry Christmas". I took video and it is posted in the web gallery if you would like to take a peak, just click on the link to the right of this page.

"Let's Go for a walk"

That is what I said to Jason when I saw the sun shining on Saturday morning. We gathered everything up... the dog, the leash, the jackets, the strollers, the boys, and the baby... and off we went. We got about a block from the house, past neighbors out with their kids and dogs, and realized it was REALLY COLD! Out of the line of houses the wind was blowing like crazy! Soooo... we all trooped back to the house and we tried again... the dog, the leash, the winter coats, hats, gloves, the stroller, the boys, and the baby... and off we went, AGAIN!! We felt a little silly walking past all our neighbors for the third time, but we had a great walk. When we got home we all warmed up with some Hot Cocoa!

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Getting in the Christmas Spirit

Last weekend we pulled out all our decorations and started spreading some Christmas cheer around this house. Jason had gone to the store one day and while he was gone I decided to put up our really dinky artificial tree. Trying to save money, but Jason knew I was really disappointed that we weren't going to get a real tree. So while I was putting up the artificial tree he was out being sneaky and buying us a real one. It was really funny because he walked in and saw my artificial one up and he just started laughing. We have an absolutely beautiful REAL tree up in our dining room right now. It smells wonderful!!

Family Movie Night

Lots of cuddling going on around here on fridays thanks to our new tradition. The kids grab their pillow chairs and blankets on friday night and we all pile up together with some popcorn for a movie. No interuptions, just family time! Daddy came up with this idea and boy is it a big hit!!