Merry Christmas!

Playing Doll House with Dad

Decorating sugar cookies

Christmas Eve Jammies

Testing out the "twirl" factor in her new Jammies.

 

Sophie's New Kitchen

Sophie's New House - Made from the kitchen box!

  

We are enjoying a fun sunny hawaiian christmas day!

Hope you are enjoying your christmas too!

Icing Bags, Cookies, & Hard Candies,

This last weekend was filled with Christmasing. So much tasty christmasing in fact that I have a few letters to write....

Dear Icing,
You taste so yummy! And oh so sweet!

Dear Snowman Cookie,
Brian won the contest for giving you the best makeover.  Again. He gave you arms made of toothpicks. Why didn't I think of that? 

Dear Hard Candies,
I wish you lined the roof of my house in real life.

Love,
Sugary Stomach Ache

::These Days We... are waiting excitedly to watch miss s open her presents from santa!

3 days  2 hours 22 mins

Holiday Traditions

 

One reason I love the holiday is because of all the traditions. We have several traditions. Some are the typical holiday traditions like decorating christmas cookies, sending our christmas cards and leaving out cookies for santa. Some are traditions that we have conjured up on our own.

:: The annual Mom & Daughter[s] holiday date. Typically includes lunch, a little shopping and a trip to Bath & Body Works. We continued this tradition yesterday. We started with lunch at Chili's, where Sophie got her first kids meal. She ate so much mac n' cheese she could barely move. It was hysterical! Then we went to the mall and browsed a little and of course my newest B&BW items....



please note the "hawaii coconut" hoping to post about hawaii again very soon....

:: Decorating Chirstmas Cookies. Looking forward to doing this on Sunday! We always have some kind of "best" contest. And lick our fingers several times. :)

:: Tabernacle Christmas Concert. I love the going to the christmas concert every year. It is always amazing and definitely brings the christmas spirit. This year David Archuleta is the guest singer. We do have tickets, but sadly I'm not sure we are going to be able to go.

:: Decorating the Christmas Tree. This year we had to make the tree situation a little kid proof. It is only 2ft tall and is on top of the entertainment center. It's not quiet the same as having a full sized tree but oh well. I would much rather have a mini one versus fight Sophie on it all day long. Do your kids mess with your tree? When we are at our parents house Sophie will not stop pulling the ornaments off!

I would love to hear about your family traditions!

Which ones are you looking forward to most?

These days we... are playing wii and with the fisher price "a visit from santa" playset. 

Merry Christmas!

We had a wonderful Christmas! On Christmas Eve we went over to my families house. We played games, got all the food ready for our fancy Christmas Eve dinner, went sledding {i watched of course. I didn't want to go into labor on Christmas Eve!} and the boys got rubber band guns and a nerf gun as a Christmas Eve present! They had quiet the wars with that!

Chad Sledding

Carson Sledding

The Nerf Gun

Christmas Eve Dinner

Christmas Morning. Brian got a scope he really wanted!

Carson and I got an iPod touch {LOVE it!}

Christmas Cookies

Every year we decorate Christmas cookies! I love it!

We made all different colors of frosting and different shapes of cookies!

And this is the mess after all the fun! As you can tell we had a lot of fun! We sure got sprinkles, frosting, and candy everywhere! But it was worth it!

Brian decided to take the cookie decorating to the 3-D level!

The Great Wall of Chocolate

Last night we went with my family to PF Changs and to the Morman Tabernacle Christmas Concert! We had such a great night! We got to PF Changs {Brian had never been there and was very impressed} and we all shared Lettuce Wraps, Spring Rolls, Lemon Chicken, Broccoli and Beef, Pan Fried Noodles, Sweet and Sour Pork, and Spicy Chicken. After we ate they brought over the dessert tray. We ordered The Great Wall of Chocolate! It was huge! There was 6 layers of cake with chocolate fudge in between, a chocolate chip crust, and raspberry and strawberries all over the plate! We each had a layer of the great wall! It was so tasty!

After dinner we went to the Conference Center and waited for the concert to start! The stage is always decorated so pretty! The concert was great! Natalie Cole was the guest artist and she did fabulous! But, I think everyone's favorite was the organ solo by Richard Elliot! He is amazing! His feet play the pedals as fast as his hands play all 5 keyboards! Crazy! And, he doesn't ever use any music!

I was sneaky and took a picture in the Conference Center {very against the rules} What a FUN night!

Merry Christmas!

We spent Christmas Eve with Brian's family this year! It was so fun seeing all the little kids getting cookies ready for Santa and waking up the next morning to presents everywhere!

Michael was a wise man in The John Family Nativity


Christmas Morning!

I love Christmas time! I love the music, the family, the endless amounts of treats, and its just plain fun!

Christmas Cookies!

I love making Christmas Cookies!