My parents gave the kids camera’s for Christmas and as I was loading Mason’s pictures, I thought it would be fun to show Christmas through a seven year olds eyes.
Didn’t he get some great shots? He has been loving having his own camera. I love that he got a shot of pretty much everyone, including Grandma Jackie.
Thanks to the lovely Pinterest I came up with some adorable valentines for the kids this year. They thought it was so cool to have a home made valentine, which of coarse makes me very happy!
The finished product was adorable. Complete with a sucker stuck through their hands!
I think we will try to do something like this every year … or as long as they still love it.
And even though Dax and Navi aren’t in school, I couldn’t resist something for them as well – they are just way to cute!
Also, I wanted to let you all know that I am in the process of starting a new blog! I am so excited about it and have been working really hard on getting it ready. It will be focused more on things like decorating, DIY projects, furniture refinishing, parties, and whatever else I feel like. I will still continue this blog as my family blog but will be putting most of my effort into the new blog.
I will give you more details as I get closer to starting it … hopefully soon!
This year Christmas morning came EARLY. So Early that I wasn’t even sure it was actually morning. You see, Navi woke up crying around 2 am. I went in, calmed her down and put her back to bed. Then 2:30 rolled around and she was back up, then again at 3. Finally, I decided that bringing her in our room would be the best thing to do in order not to wake everyone else up. Just as I had fallen back asleep around 3:30, Mason came in to see if it was time to see if Santa had come. Are you kidding me? Um … no. So I told him to go back to bed.
Not long after that, we could hear three little boys bouncing off the walls with excitement downstairs. Hmm … I wonder how that happened!? Needless to say, we were all up and I didn’t see any hope of getting everyone back to sleep, so we (including Grandma and Grandpa) decided just to roll with it. It was fun, and exhausting, and Navi was down for a nap by 8 am and didn’t wake up until a couple hours after lunch. Ha. I have big plans of next year being very different!
Griff’s Star Wars helmet was a perfect fit for Grandpa Norm!
Here’s how I found my dad a few hours after the madness. I was wishing that was me!
So although we made it through our first Christmas without Jackie, we still missed her terribly. Here is a sweet poem that Kasey’s aunt gave us about Jackie’s first Christmas in heaven.
This year Christmas was much different than years past. We had Christmas Eve at our house. Krista, Bobby, Kent, and my parents all came over. We had a low key evening with tons of food, visiting, a little just dance on the Wii, and of coarse the traditional Christmas Eve jammies and ornaments.
Navi opening her new shades from Aunt Krista and Uncle Bobby.
Christmas Eve Jammies
Grandpa Norm and Griff watching out the window for Santa
All in all it was a good, but hard night. We missed Jackie. It just wasn’t the same as our usual Christmas Eve of Chinese food and good times at her house. On the bright side we enjoyed our first Christmas Eve/morning with my parents.
Like I said … a new normal.
