I can't believe that it has been two weeks since Chris and I got out of school for a little VaCaTiOn! But, I wouldn't say that we have been able to rest. Since Friday, December 19th, we have not had a break from parties, family get togethers, or other holiday festivities. Our first adventure was getting our living room in order...we painted, decorated and just recently got a new dining room table (because I am SpOiLeD rOtTen).
The before...Chris spent all afternoon measuring, marking and taping the wall to get painted.
The after...doesn't it look amazing!?!
And here it is, our living/dining room...we still have a bunch to do, but it is getting there, and don't mind the toys. We watch Home and Garden TV, all of the time and they never have toys everywhere, but if I didn't, then I would be lying...=)
Here are some of our holiday highlights...Chris' mom came in town to spend the holiday with us. It was a lot of fun to have her here and Tracen had a blast playing with her. We had Chris' family over on Christmas Eve for dinner and some present opening by the kids. It was a lot of fun! The kids really enjoyed all of their toys! Thanks Grandma Kathy and Grandpa Craig!!!
Tracen opening his super fun blocks!
Logan and Kelsey playing with his fun new toy!
Jace playing with Logan's new toy =) He really liked it!
Morgan with her new amazing TINKER BELL blanket! Do you love it? This year, I decided to be ambitious and make ALOT of our Christmas gifts. I had more projects in mind, but time was just too short even though I started in October =( The grand total was: 9 pairs of pjs, 1 night gown (with help from my mom on this), 5 blankets, 1 bag. I better get started earlier next year!After, the festivities, Chris, Maree and I stayed up putting together the tool bench that the boys were going to get from Grandma Maree, GiGi and Grandpa Jay. Then I stayed up sewing and tying blankets and wrapping gifts...you will notice in the pictures that it is almost 2:00am when I am taking pictures of our Christmas, but it was fun none-the-less. We don't really have any pictures of our Christmas day because lo-and behold, our camera decided to break. Perfect timing huh???
Here is our Christmas...Tracen got a power wheels...once he opened it, well, pulled off his ever-s0-cute blanket, he was not interested in anything else. He had to sit in his "truck" the rest of morning as he opened his other presents.
What great disguises "Santa" has. Do you notice the time???
Our one Christmas picture before we got too frustrated to continue. Sorry, its a bit blurry, but I wanted to get a picture of Tracen with his tool bench for Gigi and Grandpa in SLC =D Thanks!
For mine and Chris' birthday, Chris' Mom decided to surprise us with a new camera! THANK YOU!!! Here is the Log-meister! He is moving around so much, doing the Army Crawl.
Here is the Tracen-man! He is full of energy and little sayings! He is so much fun, but definitely a handful!
After all the Christmas festivities, we still had more fun planned. My brother, Jason, and his family came to town for more Christmas fun! We went to Truckee for a yummy brunch (excluding my raw hamburger) at the SQUEEZE IN, then went back to my parents' house to open presents and play games. It was a ton of fun! On Monday, we took the Sydenham-Karrasch-Foster grandkids to Kiddie Kandids for a cousins picture. Again, the most difficult one was Tracen, but the one we decided on turned out pretty cute!
Tracen, Logan, Zack, Miles, Ally
Monday night we hit up the Blind Onion for some AMAZING pizza! Here I am with sweet Baby Miles. He is about 4 months old. Isn't he cute!!!?!!
Logan LOVES his cousin Miles, infact, he really wanted to eat him! Grandma is trying to hide in the background...silly Grandma!
For my birthday, all I wanted was to have some friends over to play games, so a few people came over and we rocked out to Guitar Hero World Tour!
Some Christmas and Birthday highlights, because once again, I am SpOiLeD rOtTeN!
I got this for my birthday! WE LOVE GUITAR HERO!!!
Chris' favorite present!!! But he hasn't quite learned how to fly it yet! It is so big and powerful!
Need I say more??? We are having a Mama Mia party soon!!!
My CRICUT EXPRESSION!!! I haven't used it yet, but I have BIG plans for this baby!!!
For any of you out there that don't know, I love Nativity sets! My Sister-in-law, Christin, made this for me! I absolutely love it!!!We hope you all had a great Holiday Season!
7 comments:
Great post thanks for updating us! You are a spoiled rotten:) I was too this year! Can't wait for all the fun things we have planned. Starting tonight with our girls date. That was fun but I am still recovering from the YUMMY food. We really should set up a man date for Wade and Chris. That would be funny if they went to dinner just them too! Do you think people would think they are gay lovers? Anyway tell Christin that she made one AWSOME gift for you. Can she make me one?
So what you did in your living room is what we want to do in ours, so I hope you don't mind when we steal it. It's amazing how much work you guys put into your rentals, I'm sure the owners appreciate it. I can't wait to see what you do when you own the home. We miss you guys!
I love that unnecessary necessities website. It has a lot of cute ideas!
Oh and thanks for your invite to your birthday night of fun. Loser!!! Just kidding, but it does look like a lot of fun. I am particularly awful at the singing part of Guitar Hero. My rendition of "Beat It" was...atrocius. Just picture the karaoke scene from My Best Friend's Wedding and that is how bad I sounded.
Okay, so when I saw the first picture of your living room (with the blue tape), I thought you were painting bright blue stripes up and down! I breathed a sigh of relief when I scrolled down!
By the way- we LOVE Mamma Mia too! We bought the DVD and the CD, and I listen to it every day when I cook dinner!
okay here are all my comments... I totally love your painting job, way to go Chris! Happy birthday again! I am so jealous about your circut EXPRESSION! I just have the circut and love it; I can only imagine the greater possibilities with the increased craftiness of the expression! Your kids are so dang adorable! And I loved that you posted pics of those toys because my kids favorite toys while we were at your house were the tool bench and Logan's "Parent's" toy. I guess kids know a great toy when they see one! And good luck with Chris's school starting back up. I am trying to not have panic attack with Stew going back to school!!! ;o)
It looks like yo guys had a great Christmas! And your house looks fantastic. Hope that your 2009 is full of fun!
Hey, would your husband be willing to go see Twilight? Maybe we can make it a dinner and a movie date night! Saturday would work best for us. If you guys are interested, just give a ring-a-ding-ding! Love ya!
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