Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Christmas 2014

The boys and I flew out to Orange County Saturday afternoon to spend Christmas with the Tates.  Everyone came except Natalie and Miranda, who were obviously preoccupied.  The stomach flu ripped through our family effecting everyone on different days.  Some how Chandler and Sterling were the only ones to be untouched.  Unfortunately, I was the one to be laid out on Christmas day.  Our Christmas was a little different, but still full of wonder, and I'm grateful the boys were well.



We made cookies, which went undelivered for fear of delivering the flu with them.  :)


Christmas eve we didn't hang out stockings or wear our fancy new PJs.  Grandpa was just too sick..

But, Christmas morning Santa still brought presents...


And we still had hunts...



And Christmas night, instead, we hung our stockings, read a Christmas story, doned our PJs and enjoyed opening presents to and from each other...




Saturday we enjoyed the tide pools in Laguna, and lunch at El Torrito.


We also played a lot of games, which I am sure is a great way to spread germs, ate yummy food and enjoyed good company.  Merry Christmas, friends!  

Monday, December 29, 2014

Friendly Christmas 2014

I started writing this post like December 18th or something, and then forgot about it.  Oops.  Here you go, though, Friendly Christmas 2014!


We did these sticker nativities..

Colored on the butcher covered kitchen table...

Ate AWESOME dinner...



The little ones exchanged presents...







Instead of trying to act out the nativity like we did last year, we read a picture book of the Christmas story.  It was lovely, and involved less yelling and running...
I thought I took more pictures than I did...and I thought, "Could life be any better? Probably not."

Friday, December 19, 2014

Our Christmas Tree

On Monday night we went to Costco and bought our Christmas tree.  They come all wrapped up  in twine, so it's a little bit of mystery what it'll look like when you get home.  But ours turned out to be a really beautiful tree.  

Unfortunately, life got busy and we didn't decorate our tree until Friday night.  Poor naked tree...






I just really love all our hilarious homemade ornaments!

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