Christmas

A lil late, but better late then never, right?! The kids Ray & Kailee woke everyone up at 6AM! I was hoping to sleep until at least 7! lOl! We had to wake the other kids up and only the baby took a nap that day ... although I really wanted to! lOl

We went over to Ray's Grandpa's house this year! That's where all the fam was gathered! Good times as always! I didn't take very many pictures Christmas day ... mostly just of Christmas morning! Not sure what happened.

I should of taken a picture of what the house looked like after all the presents were open, chaos!!

Santa's lil delivery

A few pictures of the munchkins opening/playing with their presents! ...

These Littlest Pet Shops are taking over our house! Take note of her pj's and Dae's pj's ... her and Damon insisted they wear Daddy's t-shirt to bed, so why not!

He still loves him some Buzz! Good thing they are making another Toy Story and Buzz is still available!

He LOVES his train table! We love it too because everything is built right into the table! Damon had a train table, but the tracks were always coming apart and making me crazy! Justin's train table is way more portable too, so when the weather gets warmer and he wants to play outside with it ... it will totally be do-able!

Opening her new laptop! We decided on the smaller notebooks because we were thinking it would be easier for her to travel with [and they are WAY cute]! She loved it!

So silly!

The kids all dressed up and lookin' spiffy!

The lost & forgotten

So ... as I was going through pictures from Christmas I came across some that I totally forgot about! They are from the beginning of December when we decorated our Christmas trees. I should say we were all in jammies ... probably should've picked cuter ones, but whatever! lOl!

We had two trees ... one that the kids got to decorate all by themselves. They can put the ornaments anywhere they want, even if that means 15 bulbs all top of each other. Then we have our 'Macy's tree'! Think the kids did a pretty fantastic job on their tree!

Picking out just the right spot!

He looks guilty of something!

He wasn't interested at first, but it didn't take him long to start lovin' it!

A lil help from Daddy

And, Mommy!

Takin' a squeeze break

See what I mean about the 15 bulbs, lOl

The finished kid's treeAnd, the 'Macy's tree'

Right on!

Toothless grin

Giving Frosty a lil love

JuJuBe & his elf hat

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was pretty traditional this year, but with a couple of twist. We usually go to my MIL’s house and the kids open presents from her and then we go out to dinner with my parents. This year my MIL came to our house and instead of going out to dinner we ordered in Chinese food, yum! The kids were pretty eager to go to be [can you blame them], but before bed we had to leave a snack and write a note for the big guy. The kids all pitched in and told me what to write. Damon was hilarious because he wanted me to tell Santa hi from him, Justin, Allie, Kailee, Mommy, Daddy, Grandma Micki [aka Vicki], Grammie, Poppie … the list goes on and on and on … for so long my pen ran out of ink! lOl!!

We decided to have a slumber party in Mommy & Daddy’s room. We made them all bed’s on our floor [except for Justin he was feeling a lil under the weather and we thought he would sleep better in his own bed]. The kids got all cozy and went to sleep pretty fast considering they were built up with so much excitement. Before Damon fell asleep he kept trying to peak out of our window! He said, he was looking for Santa in the sky! The kids were all excited for Christmas, but Damon was beside himself! I loved it!

I think I have a few pictures from Christmas Eve [or do I]??!! I have to find them! I didn't take very many on Christmas, but I have some from that morning! We'll see what I can find!

Super baby

.Super Justin.

.To the rescue.

.With his ultra sonic cape.

.That makes him fast as lightening.

Bet ya didn't know by night our two year old turns into a super hero, did ya! :)

.The end.



Side note: Super Justin decided it was time to ditch his crib. Daddy went in to get him one morning and he had his leg over the crib trying to climb out! I wasn't ready for his transition, but he had plans of his own! He has been in his big boy bed for the last two nights and hasn't had any problems! *Sigh* He's getting so big!

Justin's 2nd Birthday Party

Our baby is a whole two years old ... ALREADY?! I'm not ready for him to be a big boy yet, but he thinks otherwise! Justin is a lot 'older' then two, our neighbor thought he was turning three. He understands and knows a lot for his age, but that's what happens when your the youngest of four!

Now that he's two, it's probably time to get rid of his 'aci' [aka paci]! I don't think it'll be an issue for him, but it is for me. That's practically the only baby thing I have left, so I'll do it when I'm ready or before he's 4 which ever one comes first, I kid! =)

I was way excited to have his party this year because he got to have his party on his actual birthday and also because his oldest sissy got to be there for it [she misses all the other birthday's ... besides Daddy's]!

I decided on a Candy Land theme this year ... way fun & easy! I've given the idea out to other people, but nobody has ever ran with it! I decided what the hell, I'll use it! =) First things first, I had to figure out where I was going to have the party because there was no way I could have it at the house. All of our Christmas decorations would've clashed with the party decorations [I can't help it]! We found a clubhouse to rent out, it ended up being perfect ... not to mention the weather was completly beautiful that day! After I figured out the location it was off to the decor [the best part]! I wanted candy and lots of it! For a few months before Justin's birthday I was on a mission for glass jars [aka apothecary jars], I totally lucked out in this department. The most I paid I for a jar was $3 and that was only two of the jars ... all the rest I found at the dollar store. All of the jars were filled with candy that I had been collecting for a couple of months as well. I wanted to make fake candy too, you know way oversized lollipops and candy canes! My Mom decided she wanted to do all the fake candy. She totally went to town [wondering where I get it from, now ya know] she made fake gumdrops [that turned out awesome], she made lollipops, licorice, and some assorted candies! I made a gumdrop wreath, I liked the way it turned out, but it took for-ev-er ... we are saving that bad boy! =) There was a chocolate river [like on the game board] or more like a chocolate fountain, hehe! The kids table was set with Candy Land plates and cups. The plates had silverware wrapped with a candy bracelet and in the cups were licorice straws! Leading up to the door of the clubhouse was a colored path [made from poster board, made to look like the game board] and candy canes. My sister made a way awesome playlist which included every sugary sweet candy song you could imagine! Then to top it all off was the one of the cutest cakes ever made! I had it made by a lady in the bay area ... she is the same one that made my bestie's bridal shower cake ... she totally ROCKS! I'll have a lot more business coming her way! We played a couple of games, but not as many as usual. We had a gumball guess, toss the candy in the bowl game, & name that candy [lots of fun, harder then I thought though]! The name the candy had 'clues' to different candy, i.e. a cow that can't lactate ________??? That would be a milk dud, haha, get it? Anyways, there was like 25 of those [more for the parents]!

Picture Time!

Kailee playing the 'throw-the-candy-in-the bowl-game'

Kailee and Reyna getting down! Reyna was adorable!

The punch fountain [only $10] and way fun

Happy Birthday Justin!!

Guess how many?! Winner takes all of the gumballs home! Everyone was waay off on the amount of gumballs this machine holds ... it's 240!

Some of the candy my Mom made

The birthday boy!

We had a coloring activity because it's one of his most favorite things to do!

Playing a lil Candy Land while he eats some pretzels

The chocolate fountain

Mmmmmm

AWESOME!!

Totally ROCKED!

The gumdrop wreath

Damon's Christmas Performance

Damon had his second Christmas program performace of his preschool career! Last year he wasn't so sure ... he ended up in the front of the class next to the teacher helping to guide the kids on what to do next [wish I had that on video]! This year he was SO excited to be on stage. He kept waiving to us and had an ear to ear grin the entire time on stage. We were some very proud parents!








P.S. On our way to Damon's school, Ray and I were trying to figure out which one of us would take him to his class, so that the other could go grab our seats. We decided to ask him who he wanted to take him to class, Mommy or Daddy? His response was, "my Kai-we"! A lil ego bruiser, lOl! We thought it was waay too cute! Daddy & "his Kai-we" took him to class.