christmas day

finally!!! it's done! the kids had a great morning, the older ones got their DS video games, and the younger ones got all the stuffed animal, baby doll, action figure, dump truck stuff they wanted....along with Santa's obligatory, undies, socks, clothes, and shoes, that only Allie is able to appreciate so far. The kids also got their big clubhouse play system for the backyard, now daddy and papa have to figure out how the heck to get it down the stairs, and assembled before we have a mutiny.

Christmas Eve

We had a fun christmas eve we sang and read the christmas story....Papa had to paraphrase about the wisemen since he couldn't find their part of the story in Luke chapter 2....but the kids got the picture, we roasted hot dogs and marshmallows in the fireplace, and exchanged our family gifts, the kids had a blast... and dinner was an easy clean up...My Favorite!

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decorating for christmas

So this year we ended up doing 2 trees, one that was out in the main part of the house, and then the kids got to pick ornaments for a tree in their toy room, where we will do their gift exchange, we figured they would have more fun that way...here are some shots of the kids getting their tree decorated and the rest of the decorations they helped with.

Kyleigh's birthday

Kyleigh is 4 and loves to be a big firl, we had a pretty small birthday, just the family...but she enjoyed it.