Christmas Eve PJ's!!

Christmas Eve was a blast, as usual. We had our traditional Italian sandwich dinner, grilled by the ever-amazing Grumpy! They were delicious. Aunt Tawna brought a boat load of craft stuff for the kids to do. And they loved it. They all made stockings with their names on them, colored pictures, added glitter, and all sorts of great emelishments!! What a thinker she is...it kept them all entertained the entire time!!! Thanks Tawna.

After dinner and all the other festivities, we gave our kids their Christmas Eve gift. This was a tradition that our parents did with us and it was one of my favorites, so this year we decided to start it for our own family. We let the kiddos open one gift each. This year they opened their new cozy jammies. They loved them and climbed right in them. They are such wonderful kiddos. I am truly blessed to be the mother of these three amazing boys. I don't know that I deserve them, in fact, most of the time I am sure that I don't. But, nonetheless, Heavenly Father sent them to me and I loose site of that sometimes. I am truly grateful for them and love them so very much. I pray that we can raise them well and teach them all that we are supposed to. They definitely deserve the best!! I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas!! I know we did. I shall post later with all the Christmas day pics as soon as I can figure out how to get them off of our new camera.

It's fun to get to know you...

This was kinda fun. I stole it off of Tawna's blog. It doesn't take that long and it is fun to see how everyone answers. Just copy and post under your edit Html on your post and change the answers to your own. Good luck and have fun!

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Both
2. Real tree or Artificial? artificial
3. When do you put your tree up? As soon as I can get to it after Thanksgiving.
4. When do you take the tree down? Not until at least New year's! That sucker is a lot of work
5. Do you like eggnog? Absolutely.....NOT!
6. Favorite gift received as a child? I truly don't remember anything I got
7. Hardest person to buy for? Jeff, he hates getting presents
8. Easiest person to buy for? Dad, orange anything and your good
9.Do you have a nativity scene? in a box somewhere
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? text??
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? II can't say, maybe it was from someone reading this...hahaha! I love all gifts
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? The Grinch! ( the one with Jim Carey)
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Usually in the last 2 weeks before, If I get a head start!
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? nope
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Italian Sandwhiches on Christmas Eve (yeah for Dad!) and Almond Roca
16. Lights on the tree? Always, lights, beautiful wide ribbon and lots of shatterproof balls
17. Favorite Christmas song? Breath of Heaven, Manheim Steamroller (what can I say, I was raised by my mother) and O'Holy Night by Martina McBride!
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Prefer to stay home, but we have travelled many a Christmas
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? can't everyone??? Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder, Blitzen, Rudolph!
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? 2 huge snowflakes
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Now that my kids are older we are continuing our childhood tradition of one present being opened on Christmas Eve (comfy jammies) and the rest on Christmas morning.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? All the crazy hurried people busy buying a bunch of stuff. Because at the time of year people should be the most Christ-like and caring they are usually worse because they are in a hurry and everywhere you go, it's soooo crowded.
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? all of them
24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? We decided we are all sick of the same-ol turkey dinner (especially since we just had Thanksgiving) So, we are gonna try potluck style this year. It should be fun. I am making Christmas pasta! Does anyone know what that is??
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? My car cleaned/detailed
26. Who is most likely to respond to this? Who has time the week before Christmas??

Happy Birthday Jaxon!!

Happy Birthday to my firstborn son!!  Jaxon you are truly amazing!!! 

Here is just a short list of why I love your guts so much:

1.  You are such a sweetheart!

2.  You let me hug and kiss you whenever I want (eventhough it is usually WAY too often)

3.  You are a great big brother

4.  You have such a kind heart!

5.  You are always willing to help

6.  You are soooo grown up

7.  You EAT!!! I love that you will eat whatever I give you

8.  You are very handsome

9.  Your love for American Idol!

10.  That no matter how big you get you will always be my little man!!

LOVE you!!!! , Mom

A little late...

So, I know that my Christmas background has been up for over a week now, but, I just noticed that I never posted a thank you.  So, 

Thank you mom!!!  

My mom designs beautiful backgrounds and I love them.   Thanks again.

Yeah!!! Jeff got an elk.  This is not a picture of his elk, I am pretty sure his is bigger.  I am so happy that he got one and that he can finally come home now.  Jaxon called me to tell me that he helped to clean it all up and out.  He said that it was bloody, but he washed his hands!  Gross.  But, I am glad that they had a good time together.

Other funny things from this trip...

Jaxon called me one day and told me: "We went hiking today mom, in the snow.  And I fell on my butt 12 times!  Daddy only fell once."

The next day he call and left me a message:  "Hi mom, it's me, Jaxon.  I walked 5 miles today.  Well, goodnight!"

Summer & Jamie's Wedding Pics...

I was playing in Photoshop, trying to remember how to make tile pics and so, here is one of Summer and Jamie's wedding!  I have no camera still, so this is what Granny got!  I am trying to learn some very basic photoshop stuff.  lol!!    Their wedding was very nice and we are so glad that they are all married off and happy!  Congratulations guys!!