Welcome Home ivy!!!

One of the happiest Days of my life!!! after 5 weeks in the Burn ICU, our baby girl gets to come home!!!!  she walked out of the hospital and so excited to get home and to recover there.  I was 

overwhelmed with all the medicine i had to take at different hours, but my baby was home.  

I was home, i could be a mom to all my kids! 

happy happy day!!!

Our neighbors and friends made a cute sign and balloons out by the front yard so when 

we pulled up everyone was in the cup de sac ready to welcome Ivy home! 

i cried tears of joy!  

I had no idea they would all be there to greet us. 

 It was so beautiful and tender, especially for my little ivy.  

She loved pulling up and seeing her friends.  

She got a brand new car to ride all over and guess who was there holding 

balloons with a note that said "you can hold me ALL day?"  buddy our elf!! 

That may have been the highlight of her day!  

Welcome home sweet ivy,  you are SO loved!

buddy's shenanigans...

We love getting a real tree every year, it smells soooooo good! We like to wait until closer to December first to put the tree up, but kids were dying to get one.. {So was i} 

We had a good time picking out that perfect tree, we decorated, ate some 

cookies and hot cocoa, and then set up the train.... always the highlight of the night.

the next morning buddy surprised us hanging upside down on  a candy cane.

here are just a few of  buddy's adventures this christmas season...

we watched "frozen" in the movie theater that day before, so the kids thought

it was pretty funny to see that Olaf was here with buddy.  Cutest movie EVER!!!

 Buddy put himself in a "Jib Jab"video on the computer. Ha!!

Polar express day at Pre School...

This time of year is always SO much fun, {busy too} buddy our 'elf on a shelf' showed 

up one morning with Christmas jammies for the kids!!  

It worked out perfect because Ivy had Polar Express day at her pre school that day.  

She was so excited to wear her new Christmas jammies to school.

Thanks Buddy!

after Ivy's school party we had cute little performances from Olivia's Company team at the Vibe.  

It was so fun to see what they've been working on and i can't wait for competition time now!  

Olivia did awesome!  Ivy's was the following day and she did great.  I ended up video-ing

 her dance so no pictures of that.  boo! 

Christmas day!

We came home Christmas eve night after the Taylor Christmas party to set up for the arrival

of Santa!  we were busy making cookies and tracking Santa on Norad all night! 

it's tradition for all the kids to sleep in the same room on Christmas eve, 

surprisingly the kids all fell asleep fast in Boston's room.

we figured Santa needed some "Diet Coke" instead of milk. ::wink::

and one of olivia's special notes!

it was a Christmas miracle!  

kids slept in until 8:15 and we even had to wake up little ivy! {we NEVER do that} haha!

i put cory in charge of the camera while i video taped.  

luckily i had my phone on hand to take some more pictures. he was struggling. haha

Boston was stoked to get his new skateboard and kahuna skate stick! 

He also got his madden 12 x box game along with some other kinect games.  

 I made all my kids their very own "Tricot" blanket this year!  

we are huge fans of the silky material and they usually try to steal their dads!  

I loved how excited they were to get them.  made it worth all the work!

Boston's {af cavemen colors} Hayes {byu blue} Olivia {turquoise} Ivy {pink}

don't worry she changed into new jammie's all morning long!

after all the presents were open and things calmed down a bit, they noticed buddy 

{our elf} was still here!!

  Boston rushed over and saw that he was holding another present along with some

 homemade snow since we haven't had snow this year in UTAH!! 

Santa always sends our kids on a treasure hunt for one last gift!

  

reading the clues, {dad was in charge of that too and they were hilarious}

and ending up in the office where they found a Karaoke machine! 

yep, we pretty much love it!

we're going to start our own band... watch out!

Olivia's cousin derek {aka aunt rachel} had her this year and made her very own apron

 along with a cookbook and pizza kit!  

She made us our Christmas breakfast of crepes & has been cooking every day since. 

Only on Christmas can you ride a skateboard in the house. haha

"Just Dance 3" was in full effect All Day long!

the one thing good about having NO snow & warmer weather would be that the kids

 actually got to ride on their new bikes and skateboards they got for christmas!

i loved that Christmas was on a Sunday! How perfect to celebrate the birth of our savior 

by singing praises on his birthday.

we pretty much LOVED having church at 1pm.  

we came home and put back on our jammie's on and played games all night!

beautiful, magical Christmas.

the day was perfect!

LOVE looking back at all the magical mornings of christmas' past...2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010,