3-day Christmas

Our Christmas was busy as usual. Though this year it was spread out a little more. Christmas Eve we had our dinner with Grandma and Grandpa H plus all the cousins, aunts and uncles on that side of the family. It was difficult to get the babies to sleep not because Santa was coming but because Kayda wanted to "go mamma Peggy's ouse eat andy" and Dillon is still fighting off a cold and not sleeping at night. Then Christmas morning Grandma G, Grandpa G and Uncle Justin came over to watch the kiddos open their presents (we didn't do our celebration with that family until the day after Christmas because we were waiting for Aunt Kirsten and Uncle Ranen and their kiddos). The kids knew just what to do and went about unwrapping presents with gusto.

After we opened presents we had some monkey bread with them, we then had to take off to get to Baba's Christmas breakfast that she puts on every year. The kids have a great time there because of how many kids there are. And then.... we headed over to Grandma and Grandpa H's for another gift exchange. Dillon slept through until the end of this one but wasn't bothered in the least.

Last thing that day...we headed home and then had both sets of Grandparents and Uncle Justin over for a small dinner. The house still hasn't recovered from all of it. Here are the kids enjoying some of their gifts in their "down" time.

The next day Uncle Ranen, Aunt Kirsten, Mason and Owen came into town so we headed over to Grandma and Grandpa G's to celebrate with them. Our kids are somewhat unique in that Santa visits them at both places (they practically live at Grandma and Grandpa G's during the week so it's home too right?) . Well Santa surprised the kids there with BIKES! Our first thought was, wow that's gonna have to hang in the garage for another year. Kayda proved us wrong. She was ON that thing and ready to go. Dillon was very excited about his trike until he realized that it's different than a bike so we'll have to remedy that situation... Great Grandma Bishop sent the kids up some money, Kayda definitely knew what it was! It's amazing that she figured it out even though we never use cash!
Uncle Justin claims the colors on the ball are a coincidence (he goes to WSU) but Daddy never really believed him! Dillon loves it though so what are you going to do?

Here's Kayda proving us wrong with her bike. She even figured out the brakes though when she rode it at home she decided that the curb was a wonderful tool for stopping.

Dillon with his trike. He used it more like a push car, he's got to figure out the pedals still.

After our after Christmas dinner a bunch of us were playing Beattles Rock Band. Kayda enjoys singing so she was rocking out with crazy hair and everything. Dillon got into it later with the drums.

Thanks everyone for things that were given or sent to us or the kids. It was a wonderful Christmas and we hope yours was too!

Prep For Christmas!

Well, normally we do all of our Christmas decorating the weekend after Thanksgiving but it was too chaotic this year. We had Kayda's birthday, Aileena's baptism, a group of friends getting together etc. Then last weekend we were cleaning the garage so we could GET to the Christmas decorations and running errands like crazy. So this weekend was our first opportunity. We put the lights up outside, straightened up inside and went in search of a Christmas tree... with no luck. We finally decided we should just buy a fake tree to make life easier but we hit a one day sale unknowingly and now they're all sold out. So maybe we'll be getting a real one after all... We DID however get SANTA PICTURES! We actually got there in time this year. We went down to the supermall and got the pictures and rode the carousel. Unfortunately Dillon did NOT like sitting in some strange guy in all red lap, so he is very unhappy in the pictures. Kayda however did marvelously. Enjoy...