Christmas time 2008

I think I have 1 billion pictures and stories to share from the last 4 days I've had off. I really need a computer at home to stay up on this better than trying to fit so much in everytime I blog....


I think I'll do it by time line:

Dec 24th; We decided we would make holiday cupcakes for Santa instead of cookies (o: As soon as I walked in the door from work the kids asked if they could open their Christmas Eve gift and I thought for sure they would be horribly disappointed in the "boring" tradition - but they weren't! They put their pj's on at 4:00 and were thrilled with it. We had so much fun baking and decorating the cupcakes. They didn't nap that day so I thought for sure it would be easy to get them down - it was for Jack but Kyla and Kade were so anxious for the next morning they didn't crash still until about 9:30.
The sugar filled cupcake frosting was even consumed at 5:30 only!

I think I was just as anxious as them because I seriously couldn't sleep myself! I was up almost every hour in anticipation for their day! I felt like a kid again, it was great!!

They made it until about 7:15 - actually the boys were up first so I had to wake up Kyla and I don't think I've ever seen her jump out of bed so fast!!!!!!

Kyla is just like her mom..... it took her a couple of hours to even open her presents because all she wanted to do was organize. We took her bookshelf / dollhouse into her room and she must have changed it around 12 times before I stepped in and finalized it! LOL

We decided that we would take naps before going to meme and papa's house and all 5 of us crashed out! Kade got the best spot in the house! ( minus the snoring! hahaha )

This is the kids all shoved in the back seat excited to go to meme & papa's to open more presents!!!



A whole bunch of pictures from the 2nd Christmas!

My mom decorates her tree with cut out felt first letters, names, and a theme for each of her grand-kids! They LOVE it and feel so special!!

I think my head is still spinning from Christmas - my kids did not slow down at all as the weekend went on. They went from one toy, activity to the next - NON stop! I was very very tired and unfortunately a bit grumpy by the end of the weekend. Perhaps though that had something to do with the fact that my football season ended in the lowest possible way I could have never even imagined at the beginning of the season. Robert and I have jumped on the Chargers bandwagon to support my dad until the end of this season. Anything to beat the Steelers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway - back to Christmas weekend.

Another thing that MIGHT have made me grumpy is the fact that Robert shaved Jack's head. I said to use a 3 or a 4 - but without going into a lot of detail, it didn't work out that way. I had a huge breakdown because he was crying, I was crying, and he didn't like it. The clippers we used didn't work so midway we had to go get my dad's clippers and I was so upset. I didn't want it as short as it ended up. As soon as he was done I grabbed him up and took him into the shower with me so I could hold him really close and calm down. He loves the shower and he needed to get all that hair off of him anyway. I could not stop crying. I wonder where Kyla gets her EXTREME emotions from??????? Any ideas????????

Kade then wanted his cut, and his turned out EXACTLY like I wanted Jack's to look. We decided to shave Jack's again because it's just so out of control unless it's wet and it does this weird point thing in the front which bugs me....... urrgghhh.

Here are my men and their sister giving each other kisses and making silly faces.

I'll end this very long post ( for memory purposes ) with some high-lights from the weekend:

Kade pulled a flower off of one of our bushes outside and I was watching him out of the kitchen window.... he screamed: MOM - look what I got you!!! While running into the house - he said; it's for you mom because you are so beautiful. AWWWHHHH

Kyla yesterday was asking Robert to show her pictures of when she was in my belly. He showed her our wedding picture on the wall, and she responded by saying: WOW, I made her boobs big too huh daddy?! HAHAHAHA - he said, yep you sure did, how did you know that? She sat on the floor and put her feet up in the air and said: Because I did this while I was in there! I love it!

Jack giving me unlimited kisses and hugs and saying: Again mom with his huge belly laugh.

Robert telling me that he had a dream last night about him and I being on a dirt road for different reason and running into each other and having lots of problems with getting down the dirt road - but remembering that we just kept making each other laugh the whole dream. He said that he vows to make me laugh more often now.

I had a very tiring weekend, and feel like I was pulled in 5 different directions - I barely sat and felt like I cleaned the whole time yet got nothing done. Even though I needed the break dropping off these sweet men ( and little girl not in the picture ) at my moms house still broke my heart!