Counting down the days...

Ya, know we had to take a picture of us all clean and ready for church. The standard Christmas picture...look how our family has changed or grown from year to year. Adding our baby Caleb this year has been wonderful. Not to mention the house and the newest member of the family....Jared's minivan...aka his newest love!

Christmas Adam at our house is just as great as Christmas Eve...well almost. Thanks to Riley his family started this tradition several years ago. We of course jumped on board and added another great tradition. We made a fun day for the kids. Here are the two little buddies smiling to show off there gingerbread house. I had to take a picture mainly to show off how cute these kids are. Don't get me wrong they are the standard kids, but today I really enjoyed them. I was taken back several times by their sincere gratitude and appreciation for family, life and traditions. Another funny thing about this picture is Jake's outfit. All of his underwear is in the laundry which is piled high now on my family room floor waiting for tomorrow to finish it! Except I'm sure it will end up back in the baskets until after Christmas. Anyways, he thought he had solved the problem of not having any underwear to find underwear already in his swimming suit! So he was so proud to have found an outfit that doesn't need "clean underwear!" You would never know what state we live in because of how my kids dress.

Today overall they played great. They held hands, danced together, sang, hugged, said "I'm sorry," and read stories together. I really love having older kids love and appreciate one another.

How cute are they? Really, again it was a good day with lots of smiles and laughs. Thanks to Jared taking them out to play in the snow. They went sledding and then built a very small small small snowman! But either way it made for some fun memories for the kids. I must admit I'm going to keep them around for a few more years!

A few more...

Once there was a snowman, snowman, snowman, Once there was a snowman...Small, Small, Small!

Happy baby! He's posing in front of his stocking that I have finally finished sewing him...not to much time to spare! He is one GOOD baby.

Here are the kids showing off there newest pj's and the "Princess" sleeping bag and "Cars" sleeping bag. I could have sewed something higher quality and actually something that would keep them warm, but when I saw the price tag, I just had to get it for the kids. There reaction was exactly what I thought it would be...Complete JOY! They yelled and screamed and were SO excited. It made for a FUN night. They were all ready to sleep with the Christmas lights on tonight...

Alayna wanted to take our picture. We had just finished reading the story in Luke about the Savior's birth. The children were adorable and Alayna said, "Mom, I just love reading and hearing about that story!" Jake was a tad distracted by the flashlight that came with his sleeping bag, to really pay attention, but I must admit it was adorable when we had them repeat the scriptures back to us. There sweet little voices were just priceless. Well there ya have it. We are ready for all the fun and busy times of Christmas to start. We had a wonderful quiet family evening at home. Merry Christmas to all!

Only Two more days...

Here are the kiddo's Santa Letters...

She has been a good girl this year! Let's see if she get's a Tea Party Set!!!

Here is messy face Jake he is asking for an orange soccer ball...Merry Christmas to one and all!