merry christmas! we had such a great christmas. celebrating with an enthusiastic two year old and animated 7 month old was such a blast. everything was either super awesome or ended in tears....just the way holidays should be :)
it really was special though!
we started the festivities with cookie baking! parker was a huge help...licking, tasting, and sampling!
nana and papa let them open a gift early! a nativity! both were sooo excited and had been playing with it non-stop!
on christmas eve, i let them up one gift before church...new christmas pjs! as you can see parker was disappointed :)
so i caved and let him open his school bus! definitely better!
and then christmas morning! parker got a race track! brandon set it up christmas eve...it was so fun to see his reaction when we brought him down stairs!
a new fire truck from great-grandpa and grandma deur was a big hit!
madalyn was in love with her new doll
attempting for a cute christmas morning picture..
after opening gifts and a morning nap for madalyn, we got ready for the koster's. another attempt at a photo turned into madalyn wanting p's school bus...ending in screams and tears!
kind of satisified with a smacker and toy camera ;)
we had a great time celebrating with friends at the kosters. we feel so blessed to have such wonderful friends in our lives! brandon was able to join them to see a movie while i stayed with the two littles for a nap (which ended in lots of crying so i drove around for over an hour while they slept in the car...it was a beautiful day so i drove along the lake!)
we ate great food and the kids had a fun time!
brandon had a 4 day weekend! so we loved having him home!
we walked steward park on saturday. cold but sunny.
madalyn is turning into quite the ham ;)
lots of days in our pjs! (parker wore his christmas pjs for almost 72 hours! he didn't want to change!)
"ice skating"
swinging at the park!
urban "hiking"
it's been a great end to 2014! can't wait to see what 2015 brings!
