Christmas Fun!

The boys were all really excited about Christmas this year. Jon helped them each make a countdown chain to hang in their rooms and every night they would tear off a ring and see how close we were getting!

We put up our big, fake tree downstairs and then decided to go to the Christmas tree lot and let the boys pick out a real tree to put upstairs that they could put all of their decorations on. All throughout the month we made ornaments and garland to add to the tree. The boys thought that was really fun, although everytime they added their ornaments to the tree they would put them all around the bottom. By Christmas the tree was looking very bottom heavy!

One of our favorite Christmas traditions is walking around Candy Cane Lane and seeing all of the lights and playing in the fake snow that shoots out every half hour!

Our ward Christmas party wasn't our favorite this year because the boys were crazy and just wanted to run around which never ends well with them. They did manage to decorate gingerbread houses and then got to sit on Santa's lap which they're always excited about. We stayed for about an hour and then called it quits!

Jon had to go to the Veteran's Hospital with the Young Men one Saturday morning so the boys and I stayed home and decorated gingerbread men. They did a great job making each one unique! Later that day Jon took the boys to the BYU/UCLA basketball game which sadly is the only game they have lost all season, but they still had fun cheering for "Bi-you" as Max would say!

Max's favorite color is yellow right now!

It rained A LOT in December and the kids were getting really stir crazy. So we finally just gave in and let them go out and play in it. They had to get some energy out!

Sunday photo shoot...

Stay tuned to hear more about the fun we had on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day!