Caution: Children At Play

One of the best things about Christmas break is staying in your jammies and playing with all the new treasures Santa brought ALL.DAY.LONG!

ALL DAY ~ EVERY DAY!

Avery and Quinn both got their Cabbage Patch Newborn babies for Christmas when they were one year old. This year was Hayzen's turn. Santa brought him a surprise baby where you find out the gender when you take it out of the package. I'm pretty sure Santa thought for sure it would be a boy.....
It wasn't. :)
Her name is Denise.
Justin said we'll just pretend she's a boy and call her Denny instead. ha ha ha!

Boy or girl, Hayzen LOVES his little baby and takes such good care of her!


One of my other favorite things about Christmas break is playing outside in the snow, sleigh riding, building snowmen and drinking hot cocoa. But since we don't have any snow this Christmas break.....

Ugh! I'm just a tad annoyed about that! :)

A Fun-Filled Christmas Night

On Christmas afternoon we headed up to Mom and Dad's
for another evening of
fUn FuN fUn FuN fUn!
We exchanged more presents, opened more presents and ate lots more food! :) Oh, and we played some games too!

Hayzen read me his new book he got from Grandma and Grandpa and Quinney took the picture. :)

Ruby and Justin. What can I say, best friends are hard to find these days.
HA HA HA HA HA!
Just admit it Justin, you know you like her! :)

And the best part of the whole night, you ask?
Well, that's easy, it was being together and having fun with
FAMILY!

We had a
Jolly Good Time!

A Magical Christmas Morning

Avery and Quinn were thrilled when they woke up and realized that the Reindeer food had indeed worked. 'Cause they definitely lead Santa to our house...

What can I say, it was a
magical morning!!!

We were lucky enough to have Grandma, Grandpa and Josh come over to our house for breakfast on Christmas morning this year. We had ham, scrambled eggs, hashbrowns, orange cranberry pull-apart bread and orange juice to drink. It was DELISH! I should make breakfast like that more often! We are so glad they could come, it was a special treat having them here with us on Christmas morning.

Since Josh was going to be here for Christmas, Quinn wanted to give him a present too. What a little sweetheart, he picked it out all by himself.

A new soccor tie! Wahoo!

And of course Quinney had to get a matching soccor tie for himself! Best pals! :)

On the Night of Christmas Eve

We had a wonderful time on Christmas Eve at Grandma and Grandpa Smith's house. We ate the traditional Lasagna dinner accompanied with salad, garlic bread a few delicious appetizers and of course peppermint ice cream with homemade hot fudge for dessert. So yummy!

After dinner the grand kids put on a talent show. Ashlee played the piano, Carson played the violin and Madelyne and Avery sang songs. Quinn was going to sing a song too but he developed a little bit of stage fright. So the ending number was Justin, Quinn, Hayzen, Avery and Madelyne leading us all in Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Jolly good time!

Here's Avery singing her little heart out then taking a bow.

Grandma Smith then told the story "Penny's Christmas Jar Miracle", and challenged each family to fill up the jar she gave us with spare change and do something special with it for someone in need next Christmastime. What a great way to remember the true meaning of Christmas.

Is there anything more exciting than to have Santa show up on Christmas Eve? The kids don't think so, they were thrilled to see him. They took their turn sitting on his lap and Santa even brought each of them a present to open. Lucky kids!

The kids also got to exchange their name presents with each other. Another present to open? Lucky kids!

Welp, believe it or not, they got to open a third present on Christmas Eve, their Christmas jammies of course! Wahoo! I do love a good set of coordinating Christmas jammies, that's for sure! Like I said before, lucky kids!

Madelyne and Savannah got the same jammies too but by this time, both Savannah and Hayzen were a little out of sorts for picture taking.

When we got home we had to do our last minute preparations for Santa's arrival. Quinn's little friend from preschool gave him some Reindeer food to spread on the grass so they could smell it and lead Santa to our house.

It worked like a charm!

Merry Christmas to all
and to all a good night!