Jay has become completely obsessed with babies, and this baby doll never leaves his sight. I mean goes to the store and for rides in the carseat, gets packed under his arm like a football all day, and sleeps under his arms at night. I think it's the most precious thing in the world, except he wakes up 2-3 times in the night because he can't find "his baby"!
We have a newborn in the house and it's not even real lol
That and potty training success has been keeping Jay up all hours of the night and so nobody has been getting much sleep around here
Stinker....but he is cute- I will give him that
We made it to the live nativity they have in Nibley this year. We use to go back when Scott and Hailey were tiny.
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Hay ride
Afterwards we drove around and looked at Christmas lights which is always way fun!
We started a new tradition this year. I saw someone selling these manger kits (for an outrageous amount of money) and so Kevin offered to build one. Then there was a little sack of straw and anytime anyone does a good deed or an act of service they got to place a straw in the manger. The goal is to fill it up before Christmas and then you lay the baby Jesus in. All the kids really enjoyed it, but I would say Hailey did the most in the family. She stayed after school to hold the door open for all the kids, wrote a Christmas card to the mailman, and lots of other sweet things. It was fun. We will definitely do that one again!
The kids decorated a ginger bread house, watched a ton of movies, read a lot of Christmas books, made lots of cookies and my moms famous popcorn cake, and of course got to decorate the Christmas tree. (I was playing with my new camera with colors...pretty fun)
This is the kids tree- They strung popcorn and all of their favorite ornaments :)
One night we decided to have a Polar Express Pajama party. We invited about 6 of their friends over in their pjs and everyone got a stack of tickets to use to get into the movie and buy treats. It was soooo much fun! My kids loved their "jobs". Before anyone came over Arianna was sitting on her stool practicing her part she would say. Then we would hear her saying, "Enjoy the movie!" lol
Scott of course wanted to handle the concessions. The kids had an all time blast, ate way too much candy, and just laughed and giggled until it was bedtime.
Always have to get those church dress pics right?
Then I think it was 2 nights before Christmas and we got a knock, and a loud "HO HO HO" and jingle bells too at the doorbell and who could it be but Santa Claus himself! Seriously, everyone- and I mean everyone (Kevin and I included) were surprised! He said that we have all been extra extra good this year and have been doing so many good things to others that he just had to come and see us early. He brought us presents too! :) Pretty fun!
