December 2010 continued...

We get together every year with my cousins for a Christmas party and have been doing this for as long as I can remember. Now we all have our own kids it has been fun to get together and let our kids play. This year for the Frew/Brian Christmas party Santa came and surprised everyone...even the parents! My Mom and Dad and my Uncle and Aunt got together and arranged for Santa to come and give all of the kids gifts. It was so fun to hear what they each wanted and to watch their faces. These pictures are from my phone so they aren't the best...They are all listening so intently...
Brooklyn wanted a dolly...Jaxon wanted Legos...And Gabe was home sick so he didn't come... :( It was really fun and the kids had a fun time!

Every year we try to make a gingerbread house...the kit I bought made it a little easier but it still didn't look quite like the example on the package!! Here are their candy-mouthed smiles.

Next we had the Whiting Christmas party. The kids exchange gifts with their cousins and Grandma and Grandpa give all of the grandkids their home made pajamas. Everyone had a lot of fun! These pics are also from our phone...

Christmas and more...

I decided it was time to post the cute pictures that I have from before Christmas and Christmas day. I need to get pictures from the Frew family party but we forgot our camera so those will come later. The Sunday before Christmas we took a few pictures of the kids in their church clothes. We didn't get any of Jaxon but we got some cute ones of Brooklyn and Gabe-and Dad :)

Brooky in her Christmas dress....this is as good as her hair EVER gets because she won't let me do it!! I did have a bow in there too but after church, it was gone.

"TWO BABIES" I have been wanting Jameson to take a picture of us like this since I end up carrying both "babies" a lot of the time. It seems like it's usually up or down the stairs or somewhere that is hard to carry even one but I've got two. They both think it's pretty funny. We always say, "two babies".

....Christmas Eve......
After our annual fondue night we tried to have a little spiritual "true meaning of Christmas" talk. I shouldn't have told Jaxon that they were going to open one gift after because he had a hard time focusing!!

Here they are with their one gift. (Jaxon hasn't figured it out yet that every year it is slippers) I'm pretty sure he was disappointed it wasn't a toy!!
.....Christmas morning.....

Well, Santa surely found our house and he SPOILED us!! Jaxon was SO excited to see what Santa brought for him. Brooklyn finally "got it" this year and loved her gifts from Santa, and Gabe didn't really care and just liked the bows and paper. This year is probably the last year that we'll be able to spoil Jaxon and get little things for the other kids because they will probably start catching on by next year. (Brooklyn will, I'm sure)

We had a GREAT Christmas and are so THANKFUL for all that we have!!