Friday, December 28, 2012

Christmas Wrap-Up

We had a wonderful Christmas filled with lots of food, family, and fun! Here are a few of the pictures I was able to steal from Chad's phone and my sister-in-law's Facebook page. I have been so horrible at taking pictures lately!

Hall Family Party

Santa came to visit and Cayden waited so patiently for his turn to sit on Santa's lap and get his present.

He was so excited! He crawled all the way up to Santa.

"Hmm... I think I will eat that."

Laura got bored shortly after Santa arrived and spent the next hour playing with wrapping paper while Santa went through the insanely long list of people.


Higgins Family Party

Cayden getting a ride on Corby's chair. Cayden was afraid of Corby at the beginning of the night, but by the end they were best buds. Cayden loved riding on Corby's chair and has asked for one of his own. Oh goodness.

There were eight babies born this past year (one not pictured and one more on the way VERY soon, making nine)! We figured out that every married couple that could have a baby did. Kinda neat. Here they are in age order; Laura is the oldest by about 10 hours. :)

Each family decorated a gingerbread house. One of my favorites is in the bottom left corner... it's the house from Up.

Our family's house - AKA Cayden's house.

Cayden showing off his house during the gingerbread house parade.

All the little kids acted out the nativity for the adults. At this point in the story there shouldn't have been any kids on stage, but Cayden felt it was necessary to point out the star. No idea what he was doing. Goofy kid.

Cute kids wearing their hats that Great Grandma Higgins made for them. I love the pom-pom on Laura's hat.

Christmas Eve/Day

 Cute kids in their Christmas jammies. Clearly Laura did not want her picture taken.

Sleepy boy got what he had been talking about for months - a Talking Thomas!

Santa had to take a wild guess as to what Laura wanted. I think he did a pretty good job. ;)

Laura was almost more interested in the wrapping paper.

After her morning nap on Christmas Laura woke up with the best case of bedhead ever! This girl's hair is out of control.

Cute kids playing together with new toys. So sweet.

Later on in the day we went and visited Chad's grandparents. Chad's grandpa loves trains! He has a whole room in his house that has a massive set up with three separate trains that run. Cayden was in train heaven and loved getting to control the Thomas train. I think Cayden and Great Grandpa could have stayed there all day.

We had a mini second Christmas the day after Christmas. We had planned on buying a tablet for Christmas, but the one we wanted was out of stock everywhere and so we were planning on waiting several weeks to buy one. Chad called me early Wednesday morning to tell me that the Orem Walmart had ONE left in stock and that if we wanted it we had to go then. So I packed up two kids and drove through the nastiest, slushiest, snowiest weather to Walmart to pick up our tablet. It was a horrendous experience getting there, but I love the tablet, so I guess it was worth it. Merry second Christmas!

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