Christmas 2014

Our Christmas card photo :)

My babies & me!

Jax & Olaf

My Maryam

Christmas Eve

Christmas morning 

Christmas dinner

Christmas Crafts

The kiddos LOVE crafts. If I just say the word "craft" they get so excited!! So, we've done tons of Christmas crafts! Maryam's school even had a craft night and we went to that too. Crafts, crafts, crafts. 

These are the crafts from craft night at Maryam's school. They made ornaments and door hangers. They had a great time! 

Gingerbread house fun!

Painted masks! They later had a puppet show for Mommy that combined Frosty and Rudolf. It was really cute!

Decorating Christmas trees they cut from green construction paper. They used ALOT of glitter. They made a huge mess and had a great time! 

Painting a wooden stocking. Maryam made hers for Jax, even put his name on it. Jax made his for Mr. Bishop. Hehe So cute!

Making coffee filter snowflakes is my very favorite Christmas craft. I love making them! I love that we do it as a family. I love that they're always different! I love them! This year we used three different filter sizes, we had super large, regular, and tiny cupcake papers.  It was fun! 

Christmas stuff

The kids met with Santa and went over their lists. I think Santa May have been overwhelmed especially when Jax asked for a lot of bacon! Haha Funny story about this Santa, it's the same Santa the kids have been going to their whole lives! M has been going to see him since 2007. 

Maryam's PTO does a fundraiser called Pancakes with Santa. It's fun and we all eat breakfast for less than $20 and the kids get to see Santa again!

Santa! 

They also got to see Santa after the City of 29 Palms Winter Lights Parade and tree lighting! He rolled up on top of a fire truck. The kids were stoked!

This was a fun night! We sat with a bunch of our friends and watched the parade, then we walked to City Hall for the tree lighting ceremony. The high school choir was there singing Christmas Carols and there were cookies and hot cocoa for everyone to enjoy! 

Merry Christmas!!!

This is the picture I used for our Christmas card this year. Let me tell you, these two were mocking me! I had their shoes on, no antlers, & no lights when we started. I had them standing next to the poinsettia hugging each other, they kept knocking each other! 

I left to go get a Diet Coke, I mean beer and when I came back they had their shoes off, the antlers on, & were wrapping each other in the twinkle lights! I decided to just go with it and I'm glad I did. It's a great picture! 

Here they are in the outfits their Auntie Sarah sent them and the hats their Auntie Brande sent them. This was Christmas Eve before heading over to Momom & Popop's house. 

Before they opened up their WiiU.

After. :)

Christmas morning before the carnage. 

I didn't take one of the aftermath. But trust me when I say, woah. 

Here are some of my favorite pictures of the kids with their Christmas presents. Santa spoiled them again this year. :)

The kids got many really great gifts this year, but their favorites are the WiiU, Disney Infinity, Skylander's Swap Force,   and all the characters they got to go with each game. 

Thank you to everyone for helping make their Christmas AMAZING. 

Christmas morning

I'm having trouble deciding which photos from Christmas morning to post! There are so many magical images! Both children had so much fun. Both were very appreciative. Both of them got everything they wanted and more! It really was my favorite Christmas yet!
Brett and I stayed up past 1am making sure every detail was perfect. We enjoyed some grownup Christmas movies like Christmas Vacation and The Ref, drank some champagne and enjoyed the evening. We were both super tired Christmas morning, but it was ok. :) My awesome husband let me nap while he started dinner. He really is the best.
Enjoy the photos!

Daddy's Christmas Party

 Waiting for Santa to show up!

 Standing in line for Santa.  Jax just wanted Mommy and Chrissy was pretending to be Mommy.  It was REALLY funny!

 Jax and Maryam surprised by Santa's continued generosity! Seems like every time they saw him this year, he gave them another gift!

 The kiddos wanted a picture with Baby Brooke.  They love her.

My BFF and I, our Baby BFF's and our Dino guys posing by the tree.  It was a fun night!