Christmas 2008

Everyone taking their turn in helping put decorations on our tree. We always do two trees at our house. A fake one and a real one. I Love the cleanliness of the fake one, but I just can't replace the smell of the real one. This year I made life simple on us all and I just went and got the real tree by myself, brought it home, and then the kids decorated it. That seemed to work out the best. We love this time of season.

These two pictures were too precious to not include them on our blog. All of my kiddo's love Grandma Gertie, especially Jenessa. She is always asking when we go down to the "long Grandmas" house, if and when we get to go visit Grandma Gertie. We love you Grandma. Then the next picture, doesn't always happen. Often times you will find Grandma reading to the grandkids but when you find grandpa with them, well, it's just picture PERFECT!!

Well, needless to say at our house around Christmas time, we have more decorations than we know what to do it (so Bryan would say). I kindof got that trend from my mom. We have a lot of santas, reindeers, snowmen, etc...that sing songs. The kids loved opening up all the backs of them and putting batteries in and playing as many of them as they could at one time.

The first pic is the kids coming down the stairs first thing Christmas morning. You can see by Nate clapping they are pretty excited. The middle pic of the kids, if you look at the boys face, is PRICELESS!! This is one of the many joys of Christmas morning. The last pic is of the children looking at thier "Disneyland" books figuring out that that was our main Christmas gift. They were all so excited when they realized that is where we were going. We spent the 3rd week of January in Disneyland. Perfect time to go...Blog to follow with that trip.

Jenessa and Ashlee in thier cute nightgowns that Grandma made. We spent Christmas here at our house in Centerville and then spent some time at Grandma and pa Soelbergs house. We then headed down to Ephraim on the 29th of Decemeber and had Christmas all over again there. We brought in the new year there, and as tradition would have it, I being the blonde, went through the door first!!