Christmas Eve/ Christmas Morning

 Livsey Christmas Eve Recital

We had such a fun time entertaining each other and performing for our crowd. It was fun to see how all the cousins have grown in their talents in the last year.

I helped put on the puppet show of the nativity. Luckily we still have enough puppets to go around.

 We had to say good-bye to Elfis on Christmas Eve. Luckily he will be back next year. Now he heads back to the north pole to help santa for next year's preparations.  The photo of our kids in the snow is out front of our house. They are sprinkling magic reindeer dust on the snow so Santa's reindeer will be able to locate our pad easily. We also left 12 carrots and half a dozen cookies out. You can't be too careful with these things. Somehow our kids guessed that their Christmas-Eve present was going to be pajamas this year. They are onto me I think.

 Christmas morning....best day of the year! 

Ali got Byron the awesome hunting hat he is wearing. It is reversible so he can be camo or bright orange. She was pleased he liked his gift quite a lot.

 There was a bit of a theme with the boy gifts. Nice timing after the big school shooting the country just suffered through but our presents were bought and wrapped before the country went anti-gun on us. Our boys were thrilled with their new guns they all got. Tyler had been begging for a bb-gun. Byron has been lusting after the gun I got him for a while now. Luckily it was the right one. Carter was surprised and thrilled he got a real 22. He was wondering if he was going to get one while he was still 12 year old. I guess all the men have been talking about it as a right of passage type event at 12 years old. Byron picked Carter's gun out. It is pretty tough looking. Now all we need is a warm day so they can go shooting.

 No gun for Ali she wanted a Barbie dream house and got one. Lucky girl. It even has an elevator. Happy faces is what we are going for and we had a whole house full of them on Christmas morning.