Christmas at my moms

Christmas this year has been a little strange. It's not bad, just different.

Our schedules haven't worked out quite right so at my mom's house we have had to have 3 separate Christmas's, one that hasn't even happened yet. I guess that's a good way to extend the holidays...have Christmas 3 Sunday's in a row.

This is the first one, it was on the 26th. It was just my family, Ty and my mom.

Ethan helping Grandma:



Lincoln trying on his new boots from Grandma:


I totally love his little chicken legs hanging out with those furry boots.



Mart made my mom really neat blocks with the 10 commandments on them. They only weigh like 80lbs total! They look really awesome though.



And my mom spoiled us as usual with our Disneyland tickets (less than 3 weeks now!) a cricut and a double stroller to take with us! That will be so handy!


Could Ethan possibly look ANY bigger sitting next to him??


Christmas #2, January 2:

Ethan was totally in love with this piano! He loves anything with buttons. My favorite part was that it came with headphones. :)


Ty was playing pat-a-cake with Lincoln. You may not be able to tell, but Ty does not like babies...they make him really nervous...which is a little odd considering he has two little boys. This was pretty cute to watch.




Christmas part 3...coming soon. January 9. Pictures to come.

Christmas Eve

My mom has hosted a Christmas Eve party for as long as I can remember. We always get together and just hang out. For years and years we would just fry anything we could find and snack on that all night long, and ended up leaving with sick stomachs. This year, she decided we were going to change up the menu and we did homemade soups with fresh bread bowls from great harvest and we broke out the old chocolate fountain from my wedding. It was fun and none of us left sick!

My Grandma hanging out with Linc:


And what would a Christmas even party be without opening up Christmas pj's so that the kids can wake up Christmas morning in new jammies!



Jaden's pj's had a minor mishap which I thought was really funny. He pulled the first slipper out of the box which was a black slip on, and then pulled the second one out which was a brown moccasin. He kept looking at his mom questioning her thinking she had done it on purpose. She was totally shocked that they were wrong. It made me laugh pretty hard.


Everybody showing off their new pj's:


The last couple of years since my family has grown A LOT, each member of each family will draw a name and we just get them gifts instead of buying for everyone. Ethan had Karlin's name but she wasn't going to be there on Christmas so we gave it to her Christmas Eve instead. Mart has been planning her gift for probably 6 months and was super excited to give it to her. He built her her very own vanity. It turned out really cute.

Christmas

Our Christmas this year seemed WAY more crowded than normal. We had more people over than I am used to and I started to feel a bit claustrophobic. But it was nice and Ethan was really cute. For his big present this year he got a new trike. It's totally adorable and he loved it!

My model tree!


Ethan's cute new trike:



The first thing Ethan did when he came downstairs was run straight to the big bowl of candy on the counter!



When he saw his stocking, he got super pumped over the poptarts and starting saying "Oh Yeah!!" over and over and over again!. He was so funny!

Ber made Ethan a stuffed dragon from the How to Train Your Dragon movie and it was totally amazing! She made up her own pattern and everything. I was totally impressed.







This was Mart trying to bulk up so he could be as big as Ryan.



Ethan opening his new trike:


As soon as he saw it he sat down, and then stood up and tried to drag it outside. Cute boy!

Mart makes me something for Christmas every year. This year he made me a really cute blanket chest for my living room. This is the best picture I have of the whole thing (minutes the cute handles on the side). Ignore the spots on the picture, I think there was dust on the lens. Ethan thinks the box is awesome. He puts his own things in it. It's always a surprise what I will find in it when I open the lid.


This was the sibling gift to Mart's dad. We made him a quilt to remind him of home while he's out driving his truck and away from home.






Mart made a point to tell me that he thinks I always wear a coke shirt every Christmas and it drove him crazy, so he bought me a new shirt to wear that morning instead. Ryan showed up in his coke shirt and it made me miss mine, so I put it on for a picture with Ryan.


Merry Christmas! I hope everyone had a fun and safe holiday.

Christmas Project

We decided to build and paint a picture frame for my mom for Christmas. The painting part got a little messy ...

Ethan helping paint:


Lincoln wasn't a huge fan of it ....



The final product:



It ended up being slightly messier than Mart had originally anticipated. :)