Christmas!

We had a great Christmas. We told the kids they couldn't come out of their rooms until we came and got them so at about 7:00 is when we let them come in the familyroom. Santa brought our whole family bikes and a Wii and the kids got other little things. We stayed home most of the day. It was nice to relax. Brad actually had a couple of weeks off so it was nice.

Christmas Eve!

On Christmas Eve we went to the Bakers and had a fun get together. We sang songs, ate and performed the nativity of course.Grandma Baker, Katelyn and Kyle
Everybody together

Katelyn ( Mary) and Kyle (Joseph)

Megan, Mindy and Annie (Angels)

and Brad the Angel

Christmas parties!

Well I'm finally updating - it's only been about 3 weeks. We had both of our family Christmas parties the Saturday before Christmas. First we went to the Bakers and made gingerbread houses with the kids while the guys and some of the boys went shooting. Then we just hung out, ate pizza and had lots of fun. We had the Campbell party that evening. We met at Mandi's and let the kids open their presents from my parents. My mom made all the grandkids cute little pound puppies that were all different. My kids loved them! Then Katelyn and her friends watched the kids for the rest of the night while the adults got together at Mike and Meagans for food and games. We all had lots of fun. Mom, Dad, Mandi, Aaron, Trayson

Hanging out at Mandi's

The babysitters - Noelle, Alyssa and Katelyn


Katelyn

Kyle and Tyler

Annie

Avrie

The kids making gingerbread houses

Cute Heidi and cute Brielle

Bridger, Boston, Addi and Katelyn

There is not much going on here. We are just getting ready for christmas and such. Last night while I was making french toast for dinner all the bread that I got out of my pile on the counter to dip in the mixture was wet. I thought that's strange. As soon as I finished cooking that batch I grabbed out more bread and set it on the counter to make more. Then I quickly realized why the bread was wet. Avrie was sitting at the bar licking eat slice of bread on the front and back. She thought we had to get the bread wet before we dipped it in the egg mixture. I thought it was pretty funny and I never told the rest of the family but I did tell Brad after he was done eating. :)

ticked.

Annie really ticked me off this morning. I took my kids to school at 8:45 this morning. When I take them to school I have no make up , hair isn't done, flip flops, lets just say I'm pretty scary looking. So anyway, I pull up in the kid drop off lane and there are tons of cars behind me. Everyone gets out and heads to their classes except Annie. She refuses to get out. Her excuse is " I'm too tired mom." She wouldn't budge from her seat. She was perfectly fine earlier in the morning when she was running around but for some reason she was being stubborn. I wonder where she gets that from? So after about 5 minutes in that lane I decide to go park off to the side of the school so I can talk to her and maybe give her a little spank on the butt. Well, finally after 20 minutes of me trying to get her to go I was fed up. I marched her into the school and she got a tardy slip which made her even more mad. I had to walk her to her class ( remember how presentable I looked ) and had to give her teacher the tardy slip. Annie was still crying and was still not cooperating. Her teacher said that she would take her. She got away once and started running down the hall but I got her. Anyway that was so embarrassing. She has never acted like that before and hopefully she never does again. I feel like an awful parent.

House Plans

We hired someone to draw our new house plans. Brad and I knew what we wanted in the house but didn't know how to put it all together to look good. Anyway we kinda sketched something up and wrote a list of the things we wanted. We got our house plans back a few days ago to review them and make changes. They turned out so good. They are exactly what we want but they are a little on the big side so we don't know when we are going to start building. With the economy the way it is it's kinda scary. Originally we wanted to be in our new home by August but that might be pushing it but we are definitely holding on to these plans! :)

Gingerbread houses

The kids put together gingerbread houses yesterday. This is them during the process
This is the mess after. Brad and I took an afternoon sunday nap and woke up to this. As you can see they had already taken apart their houses and had eaten a bunch. Well, those lasted long.

Katelyn made Avrie the hat she is wearing. She has been into knitting lately. She didn't get that talent from me. You have to have patience to do that sort of stuff. She must have got if from my mom and Brads mom. :)