Christmas!

Well here is the long awaited Christmas post! We had a great Christmas starting with our Christmas Eve festivities at aunt Carolyn's. The kids looked very sweet and were well behaved for the event.

After they were sound asleep, Santa himself came! He left a moderate amount of presents under our tree.

We got Layla up at 7am to start the good times. Hannah had been up since 5:30 so we waited as long as we could.

Grandma and Papa were there to see the kids open presents as they have been every year.

The girls really enjoyed it this year which was fun.

Layla got her Tinkerbell which is all she asked Santa for.

They also got super cute nightgowns from disney.

Adam tore into a few things before loosing interest.

Hannah loved each one of her gifts. It was very sweet.

After presents and breakfast everyone needed some downtime.

Adam loved his new truck.

We changed outfits no less than 10 times.

Adam included...........

During naptime, we were all wiped out and resting.

But the fun started again when the whole family came to our house for Christmas dinner. This is Layla and her cousin Noah.

This is this years attempt at a family Christmas picture. I realized 1.2 way through the evening that I forgot to get dressed.

Adam and his Grandma.

Layla and her Grandma.

Hannah and her Grandma.

Happy baby.

Playing with Daddy.

Playing with Grandma.

We had a good night and all went to bed early.

The next day Hannah and I got the stomach flu which was not ideal, but we survived and were better by Monday. We were covered in new toys for a few days, but somehow they have all found a home in one of our two playrooms.

Orange Juice ruins computers.

Just incase you were wondering.

Some highlights I will catch up on when my computer comes back (dare I say this week?)

Christmas!
Cute baby.
Busy Busy family.
Checkups.
Gymnastics.
Cute tub time.

In other great news: Layla is 95% potty trained. She wears big girl pants all the time and does awesome. We are just lacking one potty trick (poop) which she will get eventually. She is even staying dry all night and during naps! Go big girl!

Adam has discovered it is hysterical to stand up and pee in the tub. He belly laughs out loud at himself which stops the pee and then he starts again and laughs some more. This is a very fun game when you are 15 months and just discovered it. It was very hard not to laugh with him.

Hopefully we get all caught up here this week with pictures and a video or two!

Christmas 2009

What Christmas holiday would be complete without the stomach flu?

Not ours!

It is going 'round the house and we are down to Adam (we think). We are hoping the bug Layla had a week ago was the start of this and not a different event.

Our Christmas was still great and no one was actually sick ON Christmas (the 24 hours from Midnight to Midnight). The kids got lots of toys and we took lots of pictures. Too bad my computer is in the shop (orange juice catastrophe) and this PC (shhhh - my work PC) won't read my flash card (damn IT people).

Hannah has her first ear infection in a year and a half, so I am home today waiting to take her to the doctor.

I will post the pictures later this week when my PC comes back.

Way too much fun

So Matt and I went away for a much needed adult weekend. We got to meet Owen - our new nephew. He is awesome.

Matt and went on to attend the wedding of a close friend of mine. It was 48 hours of child free entertainment. Sufice it to say we had WAY TOO MUCH FUN!. I am usually against posting anything not about the kids here, but I have no new pictures of the kids and I think these show how much fun we had!

We went to see a friend play on Friday night - it was awesome.

The wedding was beautiful on Saturday morning. I read Shakesphere.........only screwed up once.

Several hours of hot tubs and drinking ensued and then - we danced.......all night long.

ok - so we were staying on the hotel attached to the reception so do not worry - no one drove after this.

The kids are just fine and dont even know we were gone. More pictures after Christmas!

Santa!

We had a really busy weekend here at our house. Hannah had a birthday party which was fun.We found out Adam has enough hair to keep a helium balloon down.

Ant then we got ready for Santa.

We saw him at the Mall. Everyone was soo good. No one cried and the girls smiled - it was great.

Adam was very intrigued. Sunday we went to breakfast with Santa. Adam had a great time!

right until we actually saw Santa. .....Then he was really mad. Apparently he liked the Mall Santa better.

The girls did great - again.....

They are getting more pumped about Christmas now so the 12 days will feel like a long time to them. its going to be awesome!

Layla

Yep. This about sums her up.

Happy 5th Birthday Hannah!

My big girl turned 5 yesterday! She had a great birthday starting with pancakes at Grandmas.

When she got home, she found her NEW BIKE in the living room! She got ready for her party and was looking so very sweet!

We got to gymnastics early so the girls and Adam got to play for quite a while in the empty gym.

Layla loves hanging.....

and jumping on a giant tramp.......

They girls all had a little class. It was so cute.

I cracked up at Laylas version of a backbend.

We had the whole gym to ourselves and all the kids had a great time! Even our one and only little 5 year old boy :)

They had a bouncy slide during open gym time.

Which was a huge hit also.

We had cupcakes and presents and it was time to come home.

Hannah got a 2nd party at home with family.

Her Sophia was there so it was a great time.

Everyone went to bed early and slept in this morning! It was a perfect day for my princess. I still hid half of her presents and so far she hasnt noticed. It will be fun to bring them out in the cold winter months.