I love this picture! They're in front of our kid tree and I love how it looks - even if there are 15 of the same ornaments all at the bottom of the tree on the same branch put there by the kids, that's what makes it great. I didn't want to decorate only the top half to keep the ornaments safe from the 15 month old, so I spent two days telling Bubba that we don't touch the ornaments, and then he understood and we enjoyed it the rest of the season. And now that I'm looking back at the picture, I see that he's technically "touching" but he knew not to take them off, you know what I mean.
The Christmas Season was really fun this year with the kids. I set up an advent calendar with Christmas-type activities to do with the kids, and we did a lot of them, but we were really flexible with the schedule. We also had an "Elf on the Shelf" lookalike (not the retro looking one) come to stay with us while we were in Utah and that was really fun for Rachel, and really helped her make good choices. Hallelujah.
The day we got home from Utah, it felt so warm that we changed into shorts and t-shirts and played outside with our new toys (my new toy is an iPod touch). I heard we missed some "cold" weather while we were gone, but we've been hanging out in the high sixties to mid seventies and it has been beautiful! On New Year's Eve we took the kids to Chick-Fil-A (I know, we eat there a lot) and then to Tempe Town Lake and rented a little paddle boat and cruised out on the lake. It was fun, and felt weird to be so comfortable outside at night on December 31st.
Brandon has been working hard setting up and taking down Christmas lights, putting toys together for the kids, packing and unpacking. I also asked him to give the garage door a new coat of paint before he played with all his Christmas tools. I did this because if I know my husband like I know I do, then as soon as he starts his next wood project, I know I'm not going to get him to focus on anything else! He's SO excited to start building us a mantle. But about the garage door - he tackled the huge project and was so thorough about getting off all the old paint and sanding it down (we have an old school wooden garage door); it made me so happy! And now he's knee deep in sawdust working on the mantle and having a great time.
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| Custest kids ever, if you ask me! |
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| Tradition to visit the Mesa Temple Lights Display (and also see Daddy's volunteer efforts since he helped put some up) |
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| Decorating sugar cookies - don't those look delicious. |
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| Christmas crafts together |
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| Outside lights - not a great picture, but you get the idea |
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| "Mom's Tree" |
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| Back in Mesa, and the weather is fine! |
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| Lots of trampoline jumping with daddy! |
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| New Year's Eve Paddle Boat Cruise |
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| View on Tempe Town Lake |
2 comments:
oh the pictures are lovely whitney! great job! frame worthy!
How fun what a great Christmas! I totally could have gotten you a Marriott in Page, AZ! Please don't hesitate to ever ask! :-) It was good to see you! I saw you at Church on Christmas day again but there was so much going on and I don't remember what happened of why I didn't make it over to you but I did see you! ha!
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