Christmas Eve

We had a great Christmas! We stayed home this year and just had Christmas with our little family. We have started some of our own traditions and love making these fun memories. Christmas Eve we made little pizzas for dinner and then made our cookies for Santa. This year we decided to just use sprinkles on the cookies instead of frosting them. After all the frosting Santa got last year on his cookies from Jaygen, he was probably glad! :) Todd read the Christmas story while the boys acted it out with their nativity. They had lots of fun with that.







Then the boys opened their Christmas Eve present. This year instead of pj's or slippers they got capes. They loved them and spent the rest of the night running around the house "killing the bad guys"! There went the Christmas spirit! :)

When we finally got the boys in bed, Pace wouldn't stop crying because he didn't want Santa to come to our house. (Do you remember the picture of Pace sitting on Santa's lap?!) The poor little boy is scared to death of Santa.

Jaygen's Big Performance!

Jaygen had his preschool Christmas program a couple nights ago and oh my heck, he was so excited. He has been practicing his songs for us for weeks, including in the post office as loud as he could. Well, the big night finally came and he was practicing his songs in the truck driving to the program and when he finished singing, he cleared his throat and said "My voice is warmed up now." Todd and I laughed so hard at him. Well, we get to the performance and Jaygen only sang a couple of the songs. When we got home I asked him why he didn't sing like he had been practicing and he said "Because the other kids were singing so loud you wouldn't be able to hear me." We recorded the program and came home and watched it and that made it all better. Jaygen wanted to watch it over and over again. I think he liked watching himself on TV!

The Duck Hunt

Todd has been dying to go duck hunting and finally got a chance to. Between all the guys that went, they shot 15. Todd only hit two but the guys were nice enough to send three home with him. Jaygen and Pace waited all day to see the ducks when dad got home. They think their dad is SO cool (he is!) and can't wait until they get to go with him. Poor little Briggs doesn't know what is ahead of him! :)