December

 Our December was a fun one!

Just some random pics of the kids...

Bentley was so exhausted one day that she fell asleep sitting in our room watching a movie. 

 

  

Dress as your favorite winter character to school day; Carter was Jack Frost and Andi was Cindy Lou.  

 Tummy Time:

Our friends hosted an ugly sweater/pajama Christmas party. Jefferson won "best (or worst) dressed." 

 Jingles was back this year and we caught him doing all sorts of silly stuff. We found him bathing, making hot chocolate, having a snowball fight with Spiderman, drinking a juice box in the fridge, wrapped under the tree.... The kids loved finding him every morning in December.

 Crazy hairs out of the bath:

 Our ward Christmas party was really fun, a little long, but fun. We're in the Spanish branch so we had lots of delicious authentic Mexican food!! Santa even made a visit at the end. And the best feeling is when you know your kids are going to get what they asked for when sitting on Santa's lap. Nailed it!  We tried to get Bentley to sit on Santa's lap. She was so excited when she saw him and kept yelling, "Santa!  Santa!" But when I went to put her on his lap she started screaming and bawling. Maybe next year.

We've had some great snow this year and we've taken advantage of it with lots of play time outside.

 

 

 The kids had their Christmas program at school. Our music teacher, Mrs. Hay, does such a phenomenal job with these kids!! All of their songs were adorable and they sang them so well. My parents and Aunt Alli came to watch as well. The show was during school and after the performance we all headed out to lunch/ice cream.

 Grandpa was kind enough to take the kids on four wheeler rides. Never gets old.

 

I told you it was a fun December!

Snow Day @ the Harmons

One day during Christmas break we hosted a snow day at our house so the kids could get out and play in the snow and release some wiggles.

 

They made a slide down our stairs... short, but sweet.

 Their snowman:

Christmas 2012.

We were so fortunate to spend Christmas with all of my siblings and their beautiful children this year. Everyone was able to be here for the whole week of Christmas and we made sure it was full of fun things. We hosted a waffle bar and snow day at my house, spent a morning playing and picnicking at the church gym, Polar Express night, movie nights on the projector, girls' night out, boys night in (the men stayed at my house playing video games sans children), lots of yummy food, Calvin and Nic's birthday celebrations, oh yeah, and Christmas!

I wish we had a picture of everyone in their Sunday best. All the kids in their Christmas dress was pretty cute.

 

Christmas Eve day was so fun. My parents rented the movie theater and invited a bunch of friends to come and enjoy Monsters Inc and popcorn and drinks to help pass the long day. All the good daddy's took the kids on another "train ride."

 Finally time for some present opening. Cousin gift exchange:

After our delicious ham and prime rib dinner was the nativity with Grandpa Paul as narrator:

Christmas Jammies:

Finally the day wound down and it was time for the kiddies to hit the hay. After the kids went to sleep the adults enjoyed dessert, our gift exchange, and just hanging out. When the kids woke up, Santa did not disappoint.

 

 And one last surprise on Christmas morn was reindeer for each of the kids from my parents, waiting at their breakfast plate.

We were all spoiled and kind of sad when the day was over. We all just lounged around and let the kids play with their new toys while we munched on left overs. It was a delightful Christmas and so fun to be all together.