Monday, December 29, 2008

Christmas Picture Overload...

Christmas was quite eventful this year as always. It all started Christmas Eve at my sister Missy's house...

Here is Grandma and the grandkids singing Silent Night:) I learned that my kids don't know the words to Silent Night:) LOL.


Here are all of us that participated in the Ugly Christmas Sweater contest this year...and a few other little kiddos that decided they wanted to be in the picture, too. Mike had an ugly Christmas jacket this year, but decided he'd rather watch football than be in the picture!
And the winner is.....


My brother Matt! Isn't that hilarious:)


Mike and I...I had to let you see his ugly jacket...there was slim pickens this year at good 'ole Goodwill...Oh well there is always Ebay next year, right Lindsey?


Lukester in his new Christmas Jammies.


Madi in her new High School Musical PJ's and her cousins Taylor, Eliza and Alexa....Obviously they were looking at the other cameras!


Madison had to leave cookies and milk for Santa... and her pathetic mother forgot to make them earlier so instead of some fresh baked cookies, Santa got some EL Fudge cookies! (Come to find out, Santa will eat just about anything:)


Madison opening gifts Christmas morning!


Lukey opening gifts!


Madi's favorite gift from Santa...her kitchen!


Lukey's favorite gift from Santa...Rockband:) This was actually our family gift, which we've already had a blast with! I was only okay with this purchase because of the Wii fit... so far I love it:)


Our famous Christmas morning Orange rolls:) YUMMY!


We then headed over to Mike's mom's house to open some more fun gifts and eat once again:)


Madi got some cute Fancy Nancy books from Sean and Whitney and more fun toys from grandma and grandpa:)


As if they can't get enough at home they had to play Rockband at Grandma's house.


And we wrapped up the day at Grandpa Russell's house with lots more fun toys:) We were wiped out by the time we got home! Christmas was lots of fun...but I'm sooooooo glad it's over:)

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow


The calm before the snow:)


Lukey enjoying the snow...I think he's going to be my little snowboarder!

Madison playing in the snow! (Thinking: Wow, it's really snowing!)


Our little itty bitty snowman!


What it looked like by the time we got home last night!

Madison's dream came true! Can you believe how much it snowed here yesterday? WOW! That was awesome! Madison said, "I'm so excited! I can't believe it is snowing in Las Vegas, mommy!" The kids had so much fun playing in the snow! I went to my parents house around noon and it had just started snowing. About an hour and a half later it was a winter wonderland! I was afraid to drive home, but finally around 8:00 last night we made our 20 mile an hour journey home:) (Hey...I've never driven in snow!) I just wish we could have a white Christmas...wouldn't that be awesome?

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Family Traditions...

My friend Natalie blogged about some traditions their family has and I thought they were fun! I love having Christmas traditions! A few of my favorite are:

~Christmas Eve we always have the kids open up a new pair of pajamas to wear to bed. We've done this in my family forever. I remember when we were younger me and my cousins all had cute little matching pajamas.

~Christmas Eve we have also started the "ugly sweater" contest. We started this tradition a couple of years ago. You've probably read about it on a previous post. We basically find the ugliest Christmas/Holiday sweaters we can find and then have a contest to decide who found the ugliest one. It is a lot of fun! I didn't think the guys would go for it at first, but they did and they end up finding some hilarious shirts/sweaters:)

~At Mike's mom's house we play BINGO...sometimes at Thanksgiving and sometimes Christmas. It is so much fun. His mom buys lots of fun gifts and we play like 10 rounds of BINGO:) It's lots of fun!

~Every year we buy a new ornament for our tree. It usually has something to do with what went on that year...Like my first year of teaching we bought a teacher ornament, when Madi was born a new baby one, etc. (I think a lot of people may do this??)

Anyhow, I want to know what fun traditions any of you have...I just might steal them:)