Christmas Day

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. It was so fun to see the excitement on the girls faces. We were lucky and nobody woke up too early. Maddie was the first one up but I think she forgot it was Christmas and climbed in bed with me at around 6:45. At about 7:30 Maddie must have remembered because she went running downstairs and then went and woke her sisters up. Usually Paige is our early riser. Paige 's big gift this year was a Nintendo DS which she absolutely loves and plays with everyday. Hannah got a Hannah Montana guitar that you can plug into the tv and play live guitar hero, and Maddie was supposed to get motorized Barbie Jeep until her friend and her sister found it hidden in the garage so instead Santa gave her Vtech vsmiles game system. They all got lots of art supplies this year. My girls love to draw, paint, and do any sort of art project. We also have lots more my littlest ponies and little pet shops. Santa was good to Jai and I also. Jai got a new snowboarding Jacket and I got a new bike. I am so happy to have a new bike and cant wait to ride it. We love taking family bike rides and my old bike was soooo uncomfortable. We had my parents over for Christmas dinner and with that came more presents. The girls were so excited because they thought they were done. We feel so blessed to be able to spend time with Grandma and Grandpa and wish we could do the same with Grandma Janet and Grandpa Henry.

Christmas Eve

We normally spend Christmas Eve with my parents but this year I had to work. I decided that after working 8 hours I didn't want to drive down to my parents because we wouldn't have a lot of time to spend there before we had to turn around and come home. We decided to do our own thing this year and had a lot of fun. The girls were driving Jai absolutely crazy all day because they knew they weren't aloud to open their Christmas eve present until I got home. I can only imagine how times he was asked if it was time for me to come home. When I got home that was the first thing we did. Tradition in our family is to open one gift on Christmas eve. In years past I have had a present already picked out for them(usually pj's) but this year I let them pick any present they wanted under the tree. They were so excited and already knew exactly which one they wanted. They opened their gift, we had dinner and watched movies. It was a really nice and relaxing evening. Hannah was the last one awake, the other two fell asleep watching movies. We were able to pull up the Santa tracker on the Internet and show her how close he was getting. She immediately ran up to bed and fell asleep so he could come.

Decorating Christmas cookies.

Over Christmas break Grandma baked a lot of Christmas cookies and invited the girls down to decorate them. We took a few of our cousins with us and I am glad we did because Grandma made lots and lots of cookies. Maddie probably decorated the most cookies. We assumed she would loose interest and wander off but she really got in to it and had a great time. Towards the end Grandma and I had to frost them all and the just had to put the candies on....they were done. After all the cookies were decorated and a few were eaten, Grandma took us all to Arctic Circle for lunch. We had a really good time and best of all I didn't have to do any baking. Thanks mom. The only bad part about the day was leaving. I was pulling out of the drive way and trying not to hit my Dad's truck. I had five sugar buzzed kids being crazy in the car and as I was backing up I heard a bang. I said "please tell me that was a garbage can." my nephew said "nope, that was a car!!!" Crap!!! Luckily it was the neighbors, she was out delivering her Christmas treats to the neighbors and was parked half in the driveway half in the street and I didn't see her car. She was very sweet about the whole thing. She came out to look at the damage on the trunk and claimed she really couldn't see anything. She told me not to worry about it since the car was 15 years old and had been hit before. I told her she knew where to find me if she changed her mind. She wished us all a Merry Christmas and made me promise i wouldn't feel bad. I could have cried I felt so horrible. I called Jai on the way home to tell him what had happened and had to repeat myself several times before the "I hit a car" sunk in. I am no longer "allowed" to back up in my parents driveway because this is not the first accident I have had there. WHOOPS!

Hannah's birthday

Hannah turned 6 on the 20th of December. She was so excited to have a party. She invited two of her best friends Abbie and Emma for a sleepover. We took the girls to see bolt at the movies, then we went to McDonalds for dinner. They all had a blast playing. Paige got a little upset because nobody would listen to her. She likes to set all the rules when they are playing games and Hannah decided since it was her birthday she didn't have to what Paige said. Go Hannah! Hannah had a great day and loved all of her presents. She really wanted her cousin to be there(she lives in Tennessee so it just wasnt possible). We hope to see her soon though. I can't believe my sweet little Hannah is 6.

Maddies preschool program.

On Dec . 19th Maddie had her preschool Christmas program. It was really cute and in a few songs I could hear Maddie singing her little heart out over everybody else. It snowed REALLY bad that day and I was just happy to have made it in one piece. The best part for Maddie was meeting Santa. She was really nervous and has recently started biting her nails ALOT. She sat on his lap and chewed on her nails the whole time.