Merry Christmas

Wild and crazy Christmas. We had a crazy fun Christmas this year. Wednesday was the last day of school for Tanner and an early day. I've been watching my neighbors kids after school for a while now and with it being an early day I was a bit nervous knowing I had them for a good 4-5 hours. I had this wood gingerbread house as a youth (got it in young womens nearly 20 yrs ago) Well, I've been wanting to make some for my kids, but never got around to it. This year I was determined but couldn't find mine....ugh! So I called my old young woman leader and asked her if she had a template. She should do much better than a template and gave me 4, one for each kid...SCORE!!!! So I had the kids (neighbors too) help make gingerbread houses. These are wood, so they just go together like a 3d puzzle and you decorate....very nice. Here are Ady's and Matt's. I let the neighbors take one home and figure we'll just make some next year. I wanted to give these to my nieces and nephews this year, but didn't...oh well.

Christmas Eve we had my parents and the Warner's over. It was good food, fun and lots of laughs. My parents gave the kids a Wii for Christmas so we got to play. The kids really enjoy it (when Mom and Dad will let them have a turn. LOL)

Ady was especially excited this year. She begged me to decorate everything, we even put lights up outside and she made sure she turned them on the second it was dark enough. Sorry no pictures, I am taking them down today (hopefully, if not I'll try to take a picture tonight.)

Christmas morning Ady and Matt ran downstairs and then upstairs to tell us Santa had come. We tried to get them to watch tv in the toyroom and not wake Bennett and Tanner, but they must've heard, "Wake Tanner and Bennett," because that's what they did. Oh well, it was a rough night, we finally got to bed before midnight to have Bennett wake up. Then again at 2 (he hasn't been feeling well.) Then Matt was up at 4 not feeling well...sigh. Ady and Matt were up at 6:30 to begin the day (merry christmas to US!) They got the stockings (ohh, I need to take pictures of the stockings my mother in law made. She makes them for all the kids, but I got her to do one for me and Davis...lucky!!!!)

Matt was happy to get his bakugan.

My Christmas girl. Man this girl got into it this year.

Ah, Bennett. I gave him a toy out of his stocking and somehow a kit kat was on it....He threw the toy and stuffed the kit kat in his mouth, wrapper and all. I finally fished it out and upwrapped it, amungst many screams and tears. He then went to his stocking and found more chocolate and peanut butter crackers, FOOD, his favorite things. He refused to open any toys, just wanted to eat.

Hmmm, no pictures of Tanner, oh well. After presents Mom went to make donuts (with Ady's "help" of-course) This is a new thing I've wanted to try to make a tradition....hmm, probably not going to happen, they were very time conuming and hard. But YUMMY!!!! Davis made egg/cheese/ham muffins.

After breakfast we got dressed, played and then we were off to the surprise present. We dropped Bennett at my Mom's and took the kids to see the new Alvin and the Chipmunks movie. They really liked it and we were surprised how well they did. Maybe a new tradition. After that we went home and spent the rest of the day there. I even got a nap!!!!

No pictures, just a report. The day after Christmas we went to Davis' sister's for dinner, presents and fun. It was awesome. We played the Wii and had some really good laughs.

Sunday was Scott's farewell, and we heard that Trevor flew out this morning to Texas. WOW!!!