Christmas

 Christmas this year was awesome. It was the first year I did Christmas church clothes and I was pretty excited for Edyn and Lucy's matching dresses. They wore their clothes for 3 weeks straight and you can bet I tried to get a decent picture out of those three every time. It actually went better than I though, minus the robots in the second picture.

 We spent Christmas with Kevin's family this year and his sister and brother were able to come up from Idaho to spend it with us. They came up a few days early so we had plenty of time to bake and get ready for Christmas.

 Lucy and I have matching gingerbread aprons that my mom got us a few years ago. We wear them often and Lucy wore hers all day.

Christmas Eve pajamas. Edyn and Lucy have matching princess ones. I was trying to get them to look all festive with Christmas lights and it didn't quite work. Isak had fun shoving the lights in his pj top and making it light up though.

We put out cookies for Santa and carrots for the Reindeer and set out some corn cobs at Nana's on the back porch for the Reindeer as well. Isak was also following Santa on the Nordic Tracker all day on the computer to see where in the world he was. When he went to bed he was somewhere in Florida. Christmas eve we acted out the nativity, sang a song, read about the Christmas story and watched the Nativity video made by the church.  During the nativity only my kids wanted to participate so Lucy was the angel, Mary, and the shepard while Isak was Joseph and the wise man. Lucy sported a sheep hat and an angelic tree skirt around her shoulders and shouted for angry birds to come to the manager half way through. It was interesting to say the least.

I love setting out the gifts and stockings for Christmas morning. Its one of the best parts of having kids in my opinion. Isak asked for a robot and Lucy asked for a princess castle. Isak came in our room about 630 all ready to open presents and we went and woke up Lucy. She was very excited to see her princess castle.

She was also very sleepy. Isak couldn't figure out what to play with first. I scored some zhu zhu pets earlier this year for about $12...it included 6 pets, a track, ball and some other accessories. I found them each a new pet earlier this year on clearance at Walmart in addition too so it was a pretty awesome set. 

Lucy has played with her castle nonstop since she got it and Isak will even play with her with it, he just has his robot storm her castle or does something else involving his "boy" toys. Each princess plays her own song and I think I might love it as much as Lucy does.

The kids also got some new books, puzzles, games, DVD's, and a Wipeout kinnect game. Lucy got her beloved Barbie Camera that she's been asking for which she also carried with her for 3 days. Edyn got a vtech turtle thing to sit on and she was still sleeping so.. she played with it later.

Isak and Lucy also got a new bike which we had waiting for them at Kevin's mom's house that morning. They both really needed a new bike and I'm excited for when its warmer they can ride them outside. Conner also got a new one and Jayden scored a little battery operated 4 wheeler. That all the kids ended up loving, especially Edyn, and they all took turns riding it around the basement.

Edyn was a tad sleepy still Christmas morning.

Isak got some very cool hulk hands from Uncle Nate and Aunt Lindsey while we got some very cool Boise State gear and Lucy scored herself angry bird pj's and slippers.

Edyn took her first steps on Christmas Eve! She doesn't love walking but she took about 4 or 5 steps and then later did it again. She still very much prefers to crawl but will take a few steps here and there. I am just fine with her taking her time, I have a feeling once she starts she will get quick fast and then I will be chasing her everywhere.Christmas was wonderful other than our family being sick. We all had various forms of a cold bug and on Christmas morning Kevin's mom didn't have a voice and I laid on the couch with a fever and the chills. Luckily I felt better after falling asleep for a few hours and I was able to enjoy the rest of the day. We even got snow on Christmas!