1st Christmas

The weekend before Christmas we celebrated with my family. It was so nice to have a weekend together, especially since Lauren was in town. We had a wonderful dinner, and followed by us opening our gifts to each other. The boys got a pirate ship from my sister Hilary, and the Chipmunk DVD from Lauren. That DVD has been played over and over-the boys love it-and their ship :)

And they were very excited to get guitars from Grammy and Papa!

Mom! Open this for me!!

My family is very practical :)

Gigi!

Devin had to go around to everyone while they were opening up their presents to "help".

I made our families scrapbook calendars since we are moving away. I figured they would have new pictures to look at every month now.

Papa loves to dabble in woodworking, and has a workshop set up in the garage for his various projects. The boys love to "help Papa with the wood" so he made them their own tool bench to keep out in the shop when they come over and "help". It's pretty awesome :)

Then the boys had a Jamming session! Mom broke out her guitar that she doesn't know how to play and let Eric tune it up and play a little for us.

Oh yeah Lauren...that's Hot ;)

Cookies for Santa

When Laura and the kids left, we got the boys ready for bed. They helped set out cookies for Santa and helped Micah write him a note.

Cookie Monster Devinator is at it again...

Although I don't think Santa minded too much and he still was on the "nice" list ;)

Showing off their note.

The note says: Dear Santa, Thank you for the Christmas gifts. Merry Christmas. Happy Birthday to Jesus. Merry Christmas. And the boys signed their names :)

Taking picutres of Kids

After Aiden's program we had Laura and the kids come over for a bit so they wouldn't be alone all night on Christmas eve since both our husbands were on call and Ben had been gone all afternoon. But soon after they came over Ben called to say he was home, so they only stayed for a bit. We thought it would be cute for the kids to pose for some pictures together...and it was just hilarious trying to get 5 kids to all smile and look at the camera. I have decided to just post every picture I took in order so you can see how wiggly and silly they were :)

This might be the best one of the bunch... ;)

Oh those crazy kids! But we sure love them!!

Aiden's Christmas Program

I'm going to catch up now on all the Christmas blogging I need to do! So Christmas Eve Micah was on call, but a PA (Physician's Assistant) had offered to cover him until about 8:00 so Micah could go to church with us and then go to Aiden's program. So we hit up our church at 5:00 and then headed over to Aiden's preschool church by 6:30 for his service and program. Laura and her kids also came to see Aiden perform :)

Boy was this child ornery during the services! He has his good days and his not so good days when it comes to Church, and this was definitely not one of his good days...

Aiden all ready in his Shepherd's outfit.

Because it was a service, we were not allowed to use any flash photography, so I did the best I could without my flash.

The kids did a great job, and of course we filmed a lot of it too. I was so proud of my Shepherd!
Hallelujah! Christ is Born!!