I love Christmas! I love almost everything about it….except it is just so busy! One of these years I am going to figure out how to slow it down a little so we can enjoy it a little more. We always have lots of family parties! We had 7 this year. After party 7 we are ready to sleep for a week! It is a lot but it is so nice to see family. We only have pictures from a few of the parties but here they all are!

This is at my Dad’s house. All of the kids waiting for Santa to arrive.

 

Sitting on Santa’s lap.

 

 

Santa singing one more song before he is on his merry way.

One thing about Halle this year…she LOVED Santa! She was a little shy of him the first time she saw him, until he gave her a candy cane. Then they became friends for life! She would walk around everywhere saying “Santa Clause Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Missmas!” Every party we went to she couldn’t hardly stand to wait until her turn to sit on his lap. She was also always hugging and kissing all of my Santa decorations. I was worried that when we put them away she would be devastated. No worries though, she replaced him with a snowman for now. Poor snowman is a mess from being mauled and his carrot nose kissed! We’ll see what happens when February comes and he is gone too. Silly little girl!

The kids opening their presents from Grandma & Grandpa – Halle got a Cozy Coupe, Corbin got some construction tools, and Jayci got an Easy Bake Oven. They all were very excited and loved them!

 

 

 

Rob was also very excited about his new binoculars. I bet you couldn’t tell! I got a Clarisonic Mia! I love it too!

This is the Eggett Family Party (Rob’s Mom’s Family)

The kids singing songs with Santa

 

Sitting on Santa’s lap

 

 

Santa brought Halle a Laugh & Learn purse. She apparently thinks keys go in your mouth. He brought Jayci a unicorn Pillow Pet. She has wanted that for 2 years now. And Corbin got a Captain America mask and shield. He is the best super hero out there!

 

Jayci, Corbin, and their BFF’s! I’m sure my kids drive these poor girls crazy but they just love them! I do too. They are so good with kids and they are amazing girls! I need to talk to their mother and get some parenting advice because whatever she did she did right!

 

 

Hales Family Party

Opening presents from Grandma & Grandpa

 

 

Opening presents from cousins

 

Hales Family Party (Rob’s Dad’s Family)

We went to Zoo Lights. It was fun but COLD! We ate dinner there, went and saw the lights and then went back in for cookies and hot chocolate. Yum!

 

Grandma & Grandpa brought each of the kids a new Zhu-Zhu pet puppy.

The kids played a game where they had to try and unwrap a present with oven mitts on. It was fun!

 

My Mom’s Christmas Party

Thanks to Stephanie for taking all these pictures for us. We somehow managed to forget our camera this time.

The kids opening a few of the presents Grandma and Grandpa got them.

 

For their big presents Halle got a little doll crib and a new doll. Corbin got a dragon castle, and Jayci got an “American Girl” doll and some clothes for her. They are spoiled rotten.

 

Since the party was on Christmas Eve Santa made a special stop and dropped off some jammies for everyone. The kids were very excited that he found them.

Halle did get slippers too, she just wouldn’t wear them.

 

Grange Family Party (My Dad’s Family)

I only got one picture at this party. Rob was too busy playing dodge ball and I was too busy talking! But we had lots of fun! I did get a couple video’s of the kids torturing one of my cousins and running around like crazy people. This is a great party for the kids to get all of their energy out.

Halle sitting on her basketball.

Bridges Family Party (My Step-Mom’s Family)

The only pictures I got were of the kids playing with the stacking cups. They thought it was great fun and built a fort. They were proud.

 

 

We also got to go to the Fire station for dinner with Rob’s family. We got to eat in the bay with all of the fire trucks and ambulances and they had Santa ride in on a fire truck. The kids thought that was awesome!

  

Christmas Morning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The kids got WAY too much for Christmas this year.

Jayci’s presents

Corbin’s presents

Halle’s presents

We also made gingerbread houses before Christmas but forgot to take pictures of them until after. We let the kids decorate them all by themselves. I think they did an awesome job.

 

And here is a video of Halle being cute.

Jayci had her first dance recital. She did such a good job I was very proud of her! I wanted to make sure I got pictures and video of her performance so we put the video camera on a tripod and Rob was supposed to hit record when she came out and then take some still pictures (I was busy wrestling Halle). When she came out I noticed him taking pictures but didn’t notice him hit record. So, me being so worried about missing it, leaned over and hit record. Well he had already done it so we missed the whole thing! I was so upset that we didn’t have her first dance on video! Thank goodness her dance teacher saved the day and sent me a video of it!