Saturday, December 25, 2010

Christmas 2010

Ahhh Christmas has come and gone again this year.  It's amazing how stressed you can get for one simple day.  I did pretty well this year i think.  The kid's loved all there presents (which i had no help in buying, except for one.... thanks Brad).  The grocery's got bought and i did not forget one thing OK except for cream.  But still pretty good. 

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Blazer and Carson

Christmas Eve afternoon we went over to Wolsey's for a German Christmas.  We made the salad and dessert. The recipes were German and well the dessert was excellent the salad we made was not my favorite.  the rest of the food was great  well everything i was adventurous enough to try,  some of it like the cabbage stuff i took Brads word for it that it was good. 
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Hmmm W'HO'S this good looking JUNGE (that's german for boy)
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Playing Games


So we ate, played games, opened Presents.  And we also decorated Gingerbread house.  I opted out of ours cause well if you read a post from a couple weeks' ago you would know why. 
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It was a super fun time.

Then we headed home to get ready for our Christmas eve.  We got the slush ready, soup, dip ect.ect.
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Grandma and Grandpa Hough came.  It Photobucketwas great food, and of course good time.  The kid's were so tired so they had to have a 8 oclock bedtime.  Which was a good thing cause we were up till after midnight getting toy's together and everything set up!

So i guess 29 is my mature age, Cause every year up till this year i have not been able to sleep!!  But i did it this year i slept all night.

So If you check out the video below you can see what B and Paris favorite present was.  I would say this year for Knox his favorite gift was Paris zuzu pet.  Yeah Paris wishes it was not but what do ya do.
Blazes most favorite present should have been his train set (which he does like) but i think his most favorite was actually Playdoh.
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Paris's stash.  She loves her new Bathrobe (Now she wont have to borrow Grandma Sharons red one)
She won the sleep mask at the white elephant game we played.  Again a one doller present and she loves it more then her other presents.
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This was B's Haul.  If your wondering about he lovely hair accessorie, he got a new game from Grandma Falene that he loves and it came with this sweet looking sweat band, and well besides when we ate our turkey dinner, that sweat band has not left his head.
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Blazed loved his candy most.

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Hmmmm look's like someones going to disneyland.
Anyway lesson learned again and again you spend so much on the kid's and there favorite present usually end's up being the $10 present.

Hope you all had a excellent Christmas,  and wishing you a safe and happy new year!!!

My kids rocking a bit of MJ

Guess what game B and Paris got for the wii.....

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Christmas is coming......

Christmas is fast approaching.... Yikes.  I have not even got to the point were i think, OK do i have everything.   This year I'm so lucky to have what I have.  I'm so lucky to have my family, the gospel, My Wonderful Husband, Our Really Tiny house, Brad's job.   Having so many hard things happen in a small town around the Christmas season really Brings the true meaning of Christmas right back into focus.   The Gift of the savior and how that snowballed into the gift of the atonement. I Am so thankful at this time for my beliefs,  and i am hoping i can remember this in a few months, at how grateful i am for everything i have.

I'm extra grateful for these fat little knee's,  Knox loves loves loves shoes and you can imagine his excitement when he discover Paris Kitty cat's actually went on your feet.  I think he slept in them.
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This past Monday I was invited to a birthday dinner for a friend but unfortunately i have a horrible sinus cold/cough/snot/aches/feeling really crappy sickness.  So i opted to keep it to myself, so instead we made our treats to deliver (that's sounds bad after i said snot then i claim to be making people treats,  Yikes i swear i was only in charge of popping the popcorn and my hand's were clean).

Brody and Paris were in charge of Packaging......  That was really hard to give up control of this, But i did.

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Knox and I were in charge of popping the popcorn.  We made a great team until Knox discovered that the popcorn was edible.  Then he was quickly relived of his duty's so we would have enough popcorn for the syrup.
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Brad and Blaze were in charge of making the syrup.  Which Really is because Brad does it the best.

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