Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

Our Christmas came and went so quickly this year. I look forward to this every year and every year it happens the same way! I get too into getting everything finished that I forget to slow down and enjoy it. I did enjoy the holidays, don't get me wrong, but I could have done a little less and it would have meant a little more.
Christmas eve we had breakfast at our house. I always love this. I love that we can be together as a family and share traditions with each other. We had pancakes, sausages, eggs, hash browns, and cinnamon rolls, thanks to one of Grandma's traditions. After breakfast we decorated gingerbread houses and ate all the candy that came with the kit. Then we started to make cookies for Santa, but it was getting late, so the boys opened their Christmas Eve Present and everyone left to get ready for bed. Kaden politely replied that he hoped that his present wasn't pajamas this year, and then I replied that we needed to look nice when Santa came to visit or he wouldn't leave any presents. He was o.k. with new pajamas after that.
Christmas morning was a little weird. I waited and waited for the boys to wake up! After about 8:00 I decided to go and wake them up, and of course Mckay said that he needed "just 10 more minutes." How crazy is that? When I was a kid we were up every half hour starting at 4. My dad would just laugh and say, "go back to bed!"
They got spoiled again this year, go figure! They each got a crayola video camera/camera so they can take pictures when we go to Florida in February. They also got a ton of character shirts, books, air hogs helicopter(that broke 10 minutes later) and pixos( little annoying glue dots that when wet, stick to everything!)
They got a leapster 2 from Grandma and Grandpa Larsen, which I recommend to everyone with kids, and they got a ben ten alien creation chamber from Grandma and Grandpa Christensen, which again, they have had a blast with.
It was so fun that we got to spend time with all our family this Christmas. We are so blessed to have family and friends surrounding us. The quality of life would be sad if we didn't have people to share it with.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night...

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!!! Good night!!

I got tagged...

Thanks Ash...You'll laugh when I post this...

Tag 4:4:4:4
Here is how it works.

1. Open your photos folder

2. Go to your 4th folder and pick the 4th photo

3. Up load it

4. Tag 4 others



So Ashley tagged me on this, and when I went to the 4th folder and the 4th picture, it was of her son, Louk, playing baseball. I swiped it off of one of her cousins posts I think, or maybe it was off of her blog.
I love that he is so good at this game already. I swear that some kids are just born with a natural talent for life and he definitely was.
O.k., so I tag Mom, Kari, Kim, and Sondra

My New Hair...

I decided on Thursday that I needed a change, so I made a hair appointment for 4:00. I gathered pictures of family and friends whose hair always looks good(Thanks Stace and Kino) and told her that I wanted Stacie's style and Kino's color and this is what she thought I meant??? I'm still wondering how "we" decided on this color??? It's brown #6 and red #6. No, not auburn, not orange, but crayola red! It kind of faded after the first wash and now it's kind of purple/red... I don't like change, so obviously I cried for the first two days, but it's not so bad now, I guess. I will be going back to blonde on my next appointment...even if I have to go somewhere else. Change is good for a minute, but I can't handle it for long.

Keeping the Dentists in business...

Yes, Halloween!! The first sign that over-eating and gaining weight is on it's way!! Here's my little Mario!! He told me on tuesday that he wanted to be mario and I thought that I could just go to wal-mart and find stuff for his costume...but nooooo...they didn't have a hat, overalls or anything!! IFA didn't even have overalls for kids. So we made him some! Without a pattern or anything...trust me, I'm just as surprised as you! I think it turned out pretty good!
Then there's Mckay....He's happy if he can dress up as anything that resembles a hot wheel. We were lucky that there was a costume of bumblebee off of transformers. They really got into their parts. It was funny to hear little kids say, "oh, look, Mario!" It was fun! Tiring, but fun!!
So after walking 27 blocks, resting twice along the way and carrying them both at least twice, I hope we made some great memories!!