CHRISTMAS

Christmas with Mom
We had wonderful Christmas celebrations. We celebrated with my mom the weekend before--she still thinks that coming down to UT a week before will make the drive more safe--we had Christmas with my dad on Xmas Eve, and then spent the night at Kevin's parents' house to wake up for Xmas morning there. Here are pictures from the festivities:




Reed played with his lego blocks for like an hour! He never has that long of attention span!


Colton in his cute Christmas PJs. I don't know why I didn't get any for Reed. I also forgot to take him to see Santa. What kind of elf am I?!


All the nephews checking out Kevin's present.

Christmas Eve

This is the only time you will see Reed sharing with Colton. Every other time he was screaming at him and bawling his eyeballs out.


Opening more presents.


Fun toy.


Possibly his favorite toy now.


Check this out. Reed loved his push toy so much that he would hoarde it from Colton. He would hide it and then play with something else. Who is this kid?

Christmas morning

"Opening" his stocking...which he could care less about, because he just wanted to play with Oma's toys.


Breakfast break


The Stack Master


Things started to get a little stressful when we wanted Reed to open the last presents.


Thanks Walsh cousins!


This made Kevin very happy....gosh, this kid got WAY too many toys! For real, I came home and packed up some of his old toys. I don't know why we even bother getting him things for Christmas when everyone else takes care of it. Thank you everyone for a wonderful Christmas(es)!!!

More Cute Videos

We caught Reed doing this this morning. AWESOME!



He's never made us so proud. :)

Christmas Happenings

SNOW TIME

He hates his snow pants.


He liked touching the snow once he figured it out.


Daddy and Reed


There were many tears...I realized his snow boots were 4 sizes too big. That would explain why he could barely walk in them. Sorry Frog.


Frog and Snow Frog.

TEMPLE SQUARE




PLAYING SANTA

It has always been my dream for Kevin to play Santa. My dream, not his. But they found out in ward council that Kevin owned a Santa suit and our friend volunteered him to play Santa for the Ward Christmas party. He agreed only because he only had to hand out goodies to kids at the very beginning, then he could go change. Next year I'm going to ask if I can play an elf and hand out goodies too.


Most of the kids were happy to see Santa. Older kids were punks and pulled off his beard. One older lady asked if she could sit on his lap and asked for something awkward for Christmas. Kevin didn't let her sit on his lap.


Reed had no idea who Santa was.

FINGER PAINTING ORNAMENTS

I drew ornaments on cardstock and put paint on it to see what Reed would do. He was very confused at first.



He liked it best when I gave him spoons.


Of course he had to taste it...don't worry, it was made of flour and water. Still don't know how that would taste good, but he kept eating it.

The Frog

He knows who he is! YAAY! (Sorry it's on its side).

Let the countdown begin!

24 more days until Christmas!!!


My first solo sewing project (that's a snow globe ornament). I feel pretty good about it. Though I had to completely redo the pockets because at first I only put 7 boxes across. Grrrr.....
But now it is done! Yaay!