Christmas

Nathan had to work nights the week of Christmas so it was just the kids and I celebrating Christmas Eve together.

The kids all ready to open their pjs.

Modeling their new pjs.

Goofy picture.  Of course Dyer actually decides to smile in this one!  Silly boy!

Nathan got home around 7 am.  We got the kids up and opened presents right away so that Nathan could go to bed.

Video of Dyer:

Video of Blair:

Video of Easton:

Easton and Dad playing Power Rangers.

Dyer opening his train.

Video of Blair:

Blair with some of her new princesses.

Easton with his favorite Power Ranger (Red!).  Thanks Gma!

Video of Easton:

Video of the kids trying to find their gift from Valerie:

Sorry it's really dark but it's kind of fun to hear the kids' reaction.

Video of the kids on the trampoline:

Thanks Valerie!  The kids love it, especially Blair!

Video of Dyer:

My Grandma sent all of us gifts as well.  Dyer got some candy and a stuffed Christmas tree!  Thanks Grandma!

Video of Blair:

Blair got a coloring book, candy/treats, money.  Easton basically got the same thing as Blair.

Easton with his new Leapster game.

Dyer opening Gma's gift!

He LOVES this train!  Thanks Gma!

Video of Blair:

I love how Blair says "Wow" for everything even though she's not sure what it is.  What she does know is if it has a princess on it, it has to be cool!

Blair's gift from Gma!

Video of Blair:

Dyer playing with his train set.

Video of Dyer:

Love Dyer's big grin!

Video of Easton:

Seriously this was basically Easton's reaction to everything he opened!  Classic!  It was definitely a fun year watching Easton open his gifts!  I sure love this kid!

Easton playing with his new imaginex space thing from Valerie.

Video of Blair:

I love how she has to pose with her gift every time she opens it!  Such a funny girl!

Blair got a Rapunzel magnetic doll to dress up from Valerie.

Dyer got a dog book from Valerie.

Grandpa Layne spoiled us with tons of gift cards.  The kids basically had a second Christmas when they spent their cards at Toys R Us.  Easton got an imaginex dinosaur and another Leapster game.  Blair got some more princesses for her castle and a shopping cart.  And Dyer got a ride on tractor.

Grandma and Grandpa Whiting got us movie tickets and money!

There was definitely a theme going on this year.  Easton got lots of Power Ranger things, Blair got lots of Princess things, and Dyer got train things!  The kids had a great day and definitely got spoiled by all their grandparents!  Thanks everyone!

Kindergarten Christmas Songs

All the Kindergarten classes put on a little Christmas Concert.  They were so cute, especially my little guy!  I love how Easton loves to sing!  It makes me happy!

Before the Concert.

We were sitting really far back.  I had to zoom in so the picture is on the blurry side.  The videos are really shaky because I had to hold the camera above my head in order to see Easton above everyone's head.  It didn't help that he was on the bottom row.

There should have been videos of Easton singing Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and We Wish You a Merry Christmas but they were too long!  Such a bummer because they were really cute! 

Video of Easton saying the Gingerbread man:

Easton less blurry.

After the concert I went to the front to snap a quick picture.  Such a cute little dude!

I asked him to put his fingers down (away from his face) and this is what he did.  I love the pose!

Easton's #1 fans!

I was waiting to post this (and two other posts) for a few weeks now so I could put videos on but I still don't know how to make the memory smaller to download, so it is what it is.  I just need to post these and move on.  I guess if you want to see the videos you will just have to make a trip here to see them!  I posted two other posts as well : )

Candy Cane Lane and Lolly Pop Lane

We took Gramma Kennedy and the kids back to Candy Cane and Lolly Pop Lane again this year.  It seems like less and less people are decorating every year.  It's not too surprising since someone tried stealing decorations last year.  We still had a good time though and ran into some friends.

The whole crew minus me who was taking the picture.

Happy little guy!

One of the many houses we saw all decked out!

I had a video of Easton singing and a video of Dyer all excited about the lights "WOW!" but again the videos are too large to download.  I guess it's alright since the videos are a little too dark to see much anyways!

Ward Christmas Party

We had a nice dinner and then we had the pleasure to hear the primary (and other groups) perform some songs.  Easton did a great job singing and basically knew the whole song.

Easton waving to us.

Dyer waving back!

There should be a video of Easton singing here but the memory is too large to download...Still haven't figured it out!

Blair

Some of the Christmas trees we decorated at home.  We've done a few other Christmas treat activities but I forgot to take pictures.