The rest of Christmas 2012

Finally, I am able to get on this blog and do some more updated from our last few weeks. Blogger has been a total pain for picture uploads the last couple days, so I finally have the pictures on this post and while they are completely out of order I am going to just go with it, even though it will drive me nuts. At least I have it all documented:) Here is the rest of Christmas 2012.



Morgan has been wanting a bathrobe like me for quite sometime, she was pretty stoked when she opened this:)



Ethan too was beyond thrilled with this 49ers jersey. The best part of this jersey is the story that goes along with it. Ethan has been wanting a jersey since football season started. He was totally set on an Alex Smith jersey or another player who completely slips my mind right now. When Kevin and I were in Monterey in November we went to the Reebok outlet where they had youth jerseys for only $20, you buy them anywhere else and you're paying $60 which we wouldn't have done. So we decide to get him one, but the only one in his size is Patrick Willis (I sound like I know what I'm talking about, but I've never even seen these guys play:) So we buy it and Kevin convinces me that he'll have Ethan wanting a Willis jersey come Christmas Eve. We get home and ask Ethan when they are watching the next game if he knows who Patrick Willis is, of course he has no clue. So Kevin spends the next 4 weeks talking up Willis, pointing him out and telling Ethan what a great guy he is. Come the week before Christmas and I ask Ethan what jersey he wants..."Duh, mom, Patrick Willis!"....Good work Daddy (and yes, the "duh mom" really happens these days, we're working on that!)



Brooky opening her Umi Zumi toy.

Christmas morning we had to try to get a pic of the kids. Here are the littles ones...so sweet I think!

Ethan and Mo's turn to love each other.

Come on guys....please cooperate for ONE picture! Good thing pictures don't come with sound so you can't hear my utter frustration with the angels.

Thanks kiddos.....Merry Christmas!!

Here we are at Christmas with my family. My amazing sister did almost 100% homemade gifts for my kids. She is great at that. I thought about it for about half a day and then decided everyone would be happier with store bought gifts from this aunty! Brooklyn loves having her own Coco.

Huds got a cool truck and boat and trailer from Papa and Nana. He was happy!

What boy wouldn't be happy with a monster truck.

Auntie Kara explaining the family memory game she made Morgan. There are pictures of all our cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents in this game. Mo loves the cards, but doesn't really like following the rules in games, so she doesn't play it the real way too much yet. But it is a good game to practice rule followin with. My true left brained daughter would rather "play the game my own way."

Back to Christmas Eve at our house we continued the tradition of making our own pizza and having a picnic. The kids have really started looking forward to that tradition, along with driving around looking at lights, our nativity scene advent magnets, Christmas cards coming in the mail, making cookies and singing Happy Birthday to Jesus. It is fun to create memories together.

Nope, I did not get my son pampered chef products....although wouldn't that be convenient? This box holds an itunes card so he can buy games instead of bugging mommy and daddy for money to buy them.

Little mister got some more tools....he was happy:)

Back to Christmas at Nana and Papa's..all the girls got these Barbie vet kits. They were all thrilled with a doggy and another bag to put more "stuff"!



We were thankful for a couple weeks to spend some time as a family and help our kids understand the magnitude of Jesus coming to this earth as a baby. We also spent some time at the coast with my parents, and depending on how Blogger cooperates I may or maynot get around to blogging about that. But as always we had a great time there as well. Overall we had a good break, but it sure is good to be back into routine!