Christmas

We had a great Christmas this year with lots of pics to show for it. 

We had Christmas at my parents, we ended up packing our bags and staying the whole weekend!

We even had an early visit from Santa on Christmas Eve night...the kids loved it.

Blayke got an early gift from Spence...an Ellen hoodie!!!

You better believe she is rockin that thing like there is no tomorrow, she loves it as much as i do!

[oh that thing hangin out of her mouth won't be there for long, in fact there wasn't much there in this picture, i've been cutting off the tip and cutting a little more at a time, she is quickly losing interest in the pacifier...just as we hoped!] :)

[see she's excited about it]!

Her Christmas dress!

Having a kid at Christmas is so fun!

Finally...Christmas Eve dinner :)

We were downstairs when we heard the bells and then a ho ho ho....

Santa came early!!!

He had a special treat for everyone and he had our OCE gifts! [open christmas eve ;)]

Blayke wasn't scared, he was giving out candy, of course she wasn't scared!

 

Each of the kids sat on Santa's lap and told them what they wanted...

Even Mad sat on his lap and asked for an iphone! Then santa said okay, check your pocket and there was his iphone he wanted. [which btw, he has siri, and i cannot wait for my upgrade and my bday coming up for that reason, because we all need a personal assistant on our phone right. Right.]

  

I think Blayke recognized Santa....

Weird. Maybe that's where Blayke got her blue eyes...Santa Claus ;)

And how appropriate that she wore a shirt that says "Santa's Favorite"

So if you haven't gotten the hint yet, Spencer was Santa, he was awesome!!! It was all his idea to get a Santa suit and surprise everyone with Santa coming to visit. It was hilarious, we were all dying laughing, Santa kept saying he was going to have heat exhaustion in that suit, but seriously he did so good, I was a proud mrs. claus!

We got an early Christmas present from my parents, Dance Central 3 for the kinect, it is SO much fun! [spence and i got it too from my brother who had our name...my new workout?...i think yes]

Even Blayke had to get in the dancing action with her cindy loo who hair. She actually even scored points dancing :)

4 grown men laughing and dancing, what else can do that?

Blayke in her Christmas pj's ready for Santa to come back :)

Santa brought Blayke a play kitchen!
Now hopefully mommy won't trip over blayke in the kitchen because she wants to help all the time :)

[apparently she likes her coffee first thing in the morning]

what happened to the rest of my face spence?

i made a little something for spence to hang in his office someday...

he's obsessed with george so i took the quote from one of his songs

Blayke got a special I am a Child of God book from mommy and daddy with pictures by Greg Olsen. She was kissing one of the little girls in the picture :)

Guess what...momma got a new Ellen hoodie too! B and I match, you better believe we wear them out at the same time! 

[BTW, don't look close at that pic we both literally just woke up]

Every Christmas my parents would take a picture of us and all of our stuff, I love looking back at those pictures to see what we got, how old we were, etc, so that's something I started with Blayke last yr. So here is Blayke's picture with her and all of her Christmas stuff...

[i'll leave out mine and spence's because, well, that's just weird]