Merry Christmas!!!

Yesterday was so much fun. The kids are old enough to feel the excitement of Christmas but young enough to still know of the magic of it. We woke early (to early really ) Kadrey was just to excited, Jaxon just wanted to keep on sleeping he said "we can open the presents later" as he refused to get out of bed:) silly boy. However, after he started to open the presents he got very excited. Kadrey informed me that she had a wonderful day, and got most of the things on her list. The things that she did not get she will just ask for again next year. I am really surprised that Santa is still so real in her mind and I wonder if she still believes it all or just pretends too. Dan was almost as ecxited for Jaxons new toys as Jaxon was (that is Jaxons gun that Dan is holding )He rolled his ankle the other day and even though he had to limp and his ankle is the size of a soft ball he had a fun day. We then spent sometime at grandma and grandpas house (were the kids got some more presents)and then came home in the evening and played jr. Yahtzee and Jr. monopoly (we had a lot of fun).

Oh and I have quick story....The other day after work I can home and there was a small present on our porch (I was sure that it was a book). I figured it was from my visiting teachers even though it was not addressed to anyone specific. I stuck it under the tree

and continued on with the day. Yesterday it was one of the last present to get opened and it was a book. "i heard the bells on Christmas morn". only it was not from my

visiting teachers or anyone else that is i

n our ward. It was from Early Intervention (the therapists that worked with Kourtney) The book was for our family and they just wanted us to know that they were thinking of us and Kourtney - so sweet huh.

Well, Merry Christmas everyone ( I know that Christmas is only a one day celebration but I hope everyone can feel the spirit of it always:)

It's almost Christmas!!!!!!

Yay!!! Its almost time :) I can feel it in the air... The kids are being extra cryie and fighting a lot. I am so tired of wrapping presents and I am glad it is almost done with. However, I am very excited to see the looks on the kids faces in the morning that it makes it all worth it. This is the first year that we have had presents under the tree before Christmas morning and they are pretty excited about that. So Yay! I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas eve and a wonderful Christmas day!

More snow!!!!

Yesterday it snowed more!! We spent a good part of our evening out shoveling snow. oh, the Joy:) I almost always have an excuse as to why I can not go out and help Dan out, but this year there was no such excuse - so I was out there shoveling away:) Thats ok though - it is really good exerisice and it does the body good to be doing some physical labor. While shoveling we where creating huge piles of snow on the lawn. The kids thought this was really cool and were trying to decide what they could build with all of the snow....so, Dan being the wonderful, great father that he is told the kids he would help them make a cave.

They love it:)

While waiting they each built a snowman. For some reason Jax decided that he did not like the head of his and knocked it off - what a nut. :)

Snow

This morning it was snowing when we woke (the kids and me that is, Dan was just getting home from work) so we all dressed warm and went outside and began to shovel. Dan did most of the work because I am a wimp and can not shovel much at a time and the kids quickly gave up on the shoveling idea and began jumping and playing in the snow (silly kids). We even made sure that the dogs got more straw put into their house (because they need to stay warm also:). After all of that is was time for waffles and showers, later today we are going to Salt Lake for my families "Pie Party". Fun days! I hate being cold but we had a lot of fun today.

It's Christmas time!!!!!!!!

We got our tree up last weekend. The kids had a lot of fun decorating it - ornaments lined up in rows, candy canes bunched together and my favorite- a little angle ornament - right near the top:)

We went to the "Christmas Parade" downtown (nearly froze) it was fun to go to a winter parade. Not something we normally do but we really enjoyed it :) Why people felt the need to continue to move into the street to get closer is beyond me, it most be the candy that was being thrown but really I will just buy my kids some candy (that didn't land in horse poo before my kiddies caught it - gross). I would love just to be able to sit and enjoy it but that's hard to do when people are jumping in front of your nice little spot because they can not possibly find a spot anywhere else on the 500 blocks that the parade is (OK maybe not 500) going by. The street in front of the curb (in front of people already there) is really the most reasonable place, right?!? (maybe I am being sarcastic)

Really we did have fun:) Sorry No pictures - it was too dark outside to get any good ones.