Merry Christmas!

I almost forgot this one
We went to the Festival of Trees for this. We actually paid the $8 to have them take the picture and get a little card stock frame. I thought it would be great as they took a few and finally the woman stopped and said, "oh that one was great." But when we picked it up a half hour later I was more than a little disappointed. The picture was horrible. Luke wasn't looking and Mikey looked like he was about to vomit or something. Luckily Lance had snapped one (in the no-picture zone) as he stepped back after steadying the kids and as you can see, it was great (well we count ones of Luke as great if he is looking the right direction). And luckily we got this one because by the time we went to the ward Christmas party a few weeks later, Mikey had decided Santa was too scary to sit on his lap.

Mikey's clothes

So Mikey now no longer wears clothes. He puts them on to leave the house or when a friend comes over because we make him, but otherwise he wears nothing. When we get home from some place I bring him inside, go back out to get Luke and come back in to find Mikey naked already. What to do? Anyway, just in case you were wondering about why he has no clothes on Christmas morning below. At least he usually will wear a diaper (though we have had an instance or two when he refused even that.)

Christmas morning!

Our Christmas tree this year was one of my favs except that it died a few days before Christmas so here we have rather droopy branches, but it was still beautiful. I don't know what it is, but I just love the look of wrapped presents all under a tree so it makes me sad when our tree looks like this for only moments on Christmas morning before they all start getting shredded into. I could try to do this earlier in the month, but it was hard enough to stop Mikey from opening the handful that were under the tree before Christmas morning.

Stockings all ready to go!

Mikey digging in

Mikey was big help with everything "present."

Mikey the fire fighter (Thanks Mimi!)

Lucky for Luke Mikey was there to help

Mama and her boys

Mikey helped Luke open the bear he gave him, gave him a hug and now hasn't stopped trying to claim the bear for his own. He reacts well to kind reminders, though.

Merry Christmas!!

Family Christmas Eve Breakfast

On Christmas Eve morning we had a breakfast with all of my siblings where we ate and traded gifts. (What could be better than food and presents:)

My favorite picture of the season!

Cutest elf, right?

I wasn't very good a taking pictures except for when all the kids were tearing into gifts.

Mikey got a Diego rescuer vest and equipment from Amanda. He and Lance "rescued animals" non-stop for the rest of the day and Mikey went to sleep crying about how he had to rescue more animals. What a sweet heart to care so much about animals ;)

December got away....

Let me just say this:

husband in finals + running own business + bank personnel not knowing a thing about their services and telling me half truths for three weeks + employees doing dumb and stupid things + post office doing dumb and stupid things + teaching R.S. + Christmas + 2 kids + the flu(going through everybody) = Kristy hardly having time to sleep all month let alone blog

So I'm doing some catching up. Just give me a second!