Christmas 2012

Day one of our five day Christmas vacation.
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Kaylee woke up bright and EARLY Christmas morning. Like 5:30 AM. WIDE awake and SO SO excited. We pulled her into bed with us and she snuggled, but did not fall back to sleep. At 7:30 I tossed her in the shower, and did some last minute laundry and packing of the toiletries.
Regan woke up at around 8, and we watched a movie while we waited for Jon to wake up.
Jon read to us out of Luke before we opened presents and talked about the real reason we celebrate Christmas. It was nice. I think Kaylee get’s it. Hopefully next year Regan will too.
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These are just a few of our favorite gifts. All of us got SUPER spoiled by everyone.
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Regan was  beyond thrilled with his new Buzz Lightyear jammies. “Buzz Lightyear! I LOVE Buzz Lightyear!”
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Kaylee was equally excited as you can see by her new Tinker Bell Dress up and purple bike helmet. Jon fixed up her bike tires and she has been out riding a bit since.
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I made Regan a shield. I was very happy with how well it went over. He knew right away what it was and started playing right away.
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I made Jon a flag sign for when we go camping. He mentioned months ago at our ward campout that he wanted one. He was laughing SO hard and is excited to use it for our next camping trip.

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Jon got me a Garmin. And I LOVE LOVE LOVE it. I have THE worst sense of direction EVER! I am always calling him and asking him to help find me and bring me home. Until now Jon has been my GPS.  The Garmin will for sure make life easier!
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I got the kids this tea set to replace the porcelain set that had more in the trash than left to it. Kaylee was all, “It’s plastic! Regan can’t break it!!!”
After opening presents we loaded into the rental car and drove up to Utah. After our arrival and once we got settled in the children helped opened more presents with/for Grandma and The Grandpaaa.
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I made the all the grandparents t-shirts with their name and year they became grandparents on it.
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The children were especially excited about the HUGE box of chocolate that Grandma and Grandpa let them open. Regan said, “Chocolate! I WIN!” We had to break the news to him that these chocolates were ouchy tushie chocolates and he couldn’t eat any.
It was a different, but still VERY nice Christmas day.

Christmas Eve 2012

Jack’ee and Jason came over for Christmas Eve. We ate lasagna, opened a couple of gifts, and read “Teach the Children.”
Jon had Jack’ee for my sides gift exchange this year. He got her a gift card to a favorite store. She loved it.
 
Jack’ee and Jason got the kiddos new socks (per my request.). I have been informed that socks are not a cool Aunt and Uncle gift to give. So they also got the children “FUN” gifts too.
We did miss Aunt Linda’s Christmas Eve party. LOTS. But our evening was still special and nice. I think I am going to have to learn how to make Linda’s Navajo tacos and scones though…

Playset. Part 2

 Just want to say how frustrated I am with Blogger. It’s doing funky things to my pictures. 🙁
Anyway. Tis done! And we ALL LOVE IT so very much! The playset that is. It’s a bright and cheerful pop of color in our otherwise drab backyard.
 This is a picture of the top deck and bench. This picture (well all of the pictures.) loosk fine on my computer, but Blogger is being icky and doing this to it.
 Jon can stand upright in the tower. The roof is so tall. Well in the middle anyway.
 Uncle Josh being an awesome Uncle to the children.
I really love that the children have something to do in the back yard now. They have been out there EVERY day since the Part 1 post.
Best Birthday present EVER!