Christmas 2014

I love the Christmas season and it just gets better with kids.  Crew and Kade still don't understand Santa but I think this was our last year with that.

We had Christmas music playing on Pandora through the whole month of December.  We built a gingerbread house.  We went on a car ride a few times a week just driving around looking at Christmas lights.  Crew loved looking at the lights.  It was more magical watching his excitement.

Crew helped put on the candy...

We decorated our tree, which was really painful.  The boys were constantly in the tree.  Bulbs on the floor, toys in the tree.

 This is what our tree looked like on any given day...

We put all our presents out on Christmas Eve and took a picture, I hate how blurry this picture is.

Thank you Dollar Store it looks like they got tons!

It didn't take Crew long to figure out how to open presents.  It was so fun watching him.  Kade liked the boxes more than the actual presents.

My parents gave this airplane to Kade, but Crew thinks it's his.  He would not put this toy down for days.  He literally sleeps with it.  My mom said that was so last minute gift too and almost didn't get it for him.  I'm glad she did, he loves it.

I invited my parents to come stay with us on Christmas Eve so they could watch my boys open their presents.  So they came down on Christmas Eve and I made a roast and sweet potatoes for dinner.  We kept telling Crew "Santa is coming tonight" and he would seem excited but didn't really understand.  

Christmas morning Crew woke up around 8am and so Jason was in his room talking to him.  Jason said "Santa came" and Crew just kept responding "I'm so tired Daddy" 

We opened all our presents and then around 11am we went to my in laws where we opened lots more presents and had a yummy meal.

We are hoping to take the boys to Disneyland the end of January for the rest of their Christmas present.

This is what Christmas Day looks like in St George

However we got Snow on New Year Eve...

Don't be jealous of our 91 Mazda Hatchback.  It's free...

I love the Christmas Season and the spirit that it brings.