Showing posts with label christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label christmas. Show all posts

Monday, December 16, 2013

Christmas & New Years--December 2012

Christmas eve we continued with our tradition of having build-your-own pizzas for dinner.  The kids love this because they can put how ever much and whatever they want on their pizzas.  It is fun to see what everyone does.  Of course, we had Italian sodas with our pizzas!  Yum!







The finished products.  Mmmm, they look yummy!




Dinner was followed by the opening of new Christmas jammies.  The older chose not to get new pj's (party poopers;) ).  This was then followed by the reading of the Christmas story.






The night was finished off with the kids in bed and dad setting the "santa trap", actually it is a trap to keep Chase, Trey, and Layton from going upstairs before everyone is awake in the morning and seeing all the loot!

Christmas morning was a tornado of wrapping paper, boxes, smiles, and fun!  After opening presents we had our traditional mountain man breakfast and then the day was spent snacking, playing with the fun new toys, and enjoying each other's company.  I wish I would have taken more pictures that day. :(



Trey "snow face"


New Year's Eve Fun!




Happy New Year!  Welcome 2013!!

Sunday, December 15, 2013

December 2012

December is a favorite month for a lot of us in the family.  We enjoy listening to the songs of the season, baking up goodies to take to neighbors, and the spirit of the Christmas season.  And we can't forget celebrating Chase's birthday!  This year he turned 14!  Yikes!  Where is the time going, seriously?!?!







14 years old means that Chase is no longer a deacon, he is now a teacher in the Aaronic Priesthood.  Grandpa & Grandma Yearsley drove over to support him as he was ordained a teacher.  

After making gingerbread houses last year the kids decided that they wanted to add it to our list of December traditions.  So this was our second year of gingerbread houses.









The finished projects....






The kids munched on the gingerbread houses over the next few days until things got too stale for them to even want to eat.

I will end this post with some random pictures and will pick up the next post with Christmas.




 Keely in her exersaucer

 Layton with a sheet of ice from the wheelbarrow

McKay and Declan love to crawl into bed with Keely...



Mom teaching how to wrap presents