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Christmas 2011 part 2 (read below first)

Every year I make cottage cheese pancakes (cottage cheese is in the batter). G's mom came over for breakfast. It was nice having her here all morning with us, the kids enjoyed being able to show all their gifts to her and play with them with her.
We took a few pictures with her before we headed up to my parents and before G's mom headed home.

Got to my parents and we took our annual family picture by the tree, since we were the first ones there. It did not come out to my liking, so it wont be posted here.
After everyone got up there we did the gift exchange.

After the gifts, we just hung out and the kids all played.

My nephew took some cute family pictures of us outside.

While Jason was taking our picture Uncle Tracy enjoyed a Christmas bike ride on Jason's new bike.

After we did pictures Uncle Tracy took some of the kids down to his house to see Jared's parrot, well Blake wasn't happy to see them go.

Nothing that some time on the trampoline with cousins to make you forget that you were so upset in the front yard 3 mins ago.

 

We played a white elephant style gift exchange game which was so much fun! We did adults then after dinner did kids! We all enjoyed it so  much we started talking about what we should do for it for Christmas next year!

Christmas 2011

Christmas Eve this year was a little different. Brittney had to work until 7:30 p.m. and since she usually goes out to her dads Christmas eve while we go to G's cousins, this year she would have been sitting home alone after work and I couldn't stand that thought so I decided to stay home, plus Blake was still getting over all the  roseola symptoms.
 G's mom had come out for Christmas Eve and Christmas day she she rode out with G, Kyle and Luke.

This was sent to me by Rad-one of the hosts for Chritmas Eve.

It was nice to be able to finish wrapping and putting Blake to bed on time. Brittney got us In n Out and then we got in our pj's and watched Miracle on 34th street! It was really nice to spend time with my little girl.
Christmas morning Luke came running into our room at 7:30 (not bad) saying "get up, its Christmas" He woke everyone up. We headed downstairs and in about 15 seconds (ok more like 30 mins) all of the pretty wrapped presents were now piles of trash, toys and clothes!

Cookies for Santa

Every Christmas Eve day we make Cookies for Santa. The boys love using the cookie cutters and decorating their own cookies. Blake even got into it this year.

We also always make reindeer food with oatmeal and glitter... Our little Luke is to smart and this year said "why do we put the reindeer food on the grass if the reindeer land on the roof". So the story changed to the glitter lights up at night and help lead the reindeer's safely! You gotta think quick with that boy.

DOG PILE...........

It started with Blake climbing on Kyle, then Luke joining in and then at some point G was involved.

Hanging out...

One of my favorite things about Christmas time is when we get to be in our PJ's early and hang out together as a family. We watch a hockey game if it is on or a Christmas movie.