Finally some Christmas pictures! I know I'm way behind, but good things are worth waiting for, right? Actually, this post will be pretty boring except for the few family members who read this blog and want to see if they are in any of the pictures, but oh well. AND a lot of the pictures were taken in horrible lighting so they are pretty blurry. Sorry.
Here we go!
It started out with these two cool people coming all the way from Utah to spend Christmas with us. Since Todd's parents are still in Brazil, they were orphaned for the holidays so Todd and I got to have them! It was fun. Zack was a little unsure of them at first, but he warmed up pretty fast. Every time Cam would take a nap, Zack would walk right up to him and say "hi...hi...hi..." and try to wake him up. It was pretty cute. Here we are at the park!
Then we went down to my parents house in Oklahoma to celebrate Christmas. Pretty much all my family does to celebrate is eat. First night we went to the Chinese buffet, the next night (Christmas Eve) we had soup and other snacky foods, Christmas we had a Mexican Fiesta!, and the next night was a pizza party...you get the picture. That plus my dad orders about five boxes of See's candy that we constantly snack on. I think we all gained ten pounds.
Also, here is the list of people who all stayed the SAME house. Deep breath:
Mike, Chrissy, Me, Todd, Amanda, Cam, Chris, Duncan, Elena, Alan, Ellen, my Mom, and my Dad. Kids all under that age of 5: Evie, Zella, Ivy, Charlotte, and Zack. Plus two dogs.
It was crazy. It was fun. It was crazy-fun.
Anyway, Christmas Eve was pretty typical. My Dad did a story time with the grandkids who would sit still and told them about Jesus. Pretty cute. Then we opened up one gift (Zack got the ornament from Grandma Scott) and played around until the kids went to bed. After that we played a game my sister-in-law Chrissy brought. I can't remember the name, but I have not had that much fun playing a game since we left Idaho...:( (Woot woot for the Idaho gang!!) We all stayed up until about 1ish...I think? Then we heard Santa on the roof and scuttled off to bed so we would get some presents.
Storytime! Evie knew all the answers.
Zack and Charlotte sharing a sippy cup. I would stop them more if I didn't think it was so dang cute.
Zack and his ornament from Grandma Scott. He loved it.
Zella and Chrissy goofing off. I just love this picture.
My MOM!
Grandma and Grandpa Scott.
Ivy hugging her Grandpa after the story.
Then it was finally Christmas! Todd and I slept in until about 8. Then we made breakfast and opened stockings. Zack got just tons of balls in his stocking along with a Dora movie. He loved it all. After stockings we were actually allowed to just go crazy and open all the presents at the same time. I loved it, but it was a little sad not seeing the present you got someone being opened. Still, with that many people there really is no way to do it orderly without being mean to the kids.
Zack and his balls he got out of his stocking.
Amanda Christmas morning!
Cam Christmas morning!
Zack opening his presents.
The entire floor looked like this.
The rest of the break was pretty low key. I mean, we DID move in about two days with the help of Amanda and Cam, but other than that it was low key. But two more important things.
1) We got rid of our gold Mazda.:( I thought I would be happy to see it go, but I'm actually a little sad. It's the car Todd and I dated in, got caught (twice!) kissing in by the cops, got married in, brought Zack home in, moved to Idaho and Arkansas in...it's just like a member of the family.
2) Todd's birthday! He turned 25! We celebrated by going out to eat the night before since his birthday was on Sunday. Then on his birthday we made homemade pizza and had some friends over for cake and icecream. Happy Birthday to the most wonderful husband and dad in the world!
Oh, and here are some pictures for my sister to see. Ellen, call me crazy, but I actually like the one Elena is not smiling. But does it look like Duncan is the husband? I think so... And the one of you and Alan is so cute! My sister really is the prettiest in the whole world!
