Christmas 2009

Christmas Eve was spent at my parents.

MaryJane, Cole, Olivia, Sophie and Sadie

The kids loved performing for us all evening.  They each would take their turn with the mic.

Decorating cookies for Santa

Christmas morning brought lots of Joy!

Early on, Sadie had asked Santa for a hair salon to do hair like mommy.

It is so cute!  The girls had fun all day taking turns to do each others hair.

MaryJane's fake grumpy face pushing her new doll stroller.

The big gift Cole asked for.  Unfortunately, it gets 2 thumbs down. Santa didn't do his research.

Sadie's American Girl Bath Tub.

A few clients (Nana and Jill) stopped by for a new do.

Christmas was great and relaxing!  I was happy to get a new sewing machine form Santa since mine broke in October!  Can't wait to break-in the new one!:)

Temple Square

While Aunt Jill was in town, we all took tracks down to Temple Square.

It was a beautiful night!  I love this fun tradition!

MaryJane is 2!!

I can't believe my little baby is two!  It has gone by so quickly!  She is just growing up way too fast!

I made her a kitty cake since she loves kittys.

We just had a small celebration with the grandparents.

I can't get enough of her in pig tails!  Folding her arms for the prayer.

Her favorite dinner.  Broccoli, Chicken and Rice.

MaryJane is such a happy and friendly little girl!  It is so fun to watch her learn to make sentences and talk!  We love you MaryJane!  You add so much spark and joy to our family!!!  I always ask you, "Will you stay two forever?"  And your response, is "No!" with a big open grin from ear to ear!
Your ADORABLE!!

Sadie's Dance Performance!

I always love watching Sadie perform.  All her cute little expressions are priceless.

Sadie and Daddy.

Santa

Silly Sadie.  When I told her that we were going to go see Santa, at grandma's ward breakfast, she dashed and grabbed her Big Toy Book from Toys R Us.  She just had to "show" Santa what she wanted!

It was so funny to watch her stand in line with that thing.

Santa LOVED it!  Sadie was dead serious and Santa was so cute to take the time to talk to her about it. LOL!  She wanted the American Girl doll sled.

MaryJane, was not so fond of Santa.

Love all the excitement Santa brings!

A few Advents days...

One of our Advents in December is to make shrinky dinks.

I love to see what the kids come up with.

Making the Gingerbread house.

For a family night in December, I had the kids cut out an angel ornament and right a message on the angel, a gift they'd give to Jesus.

I love Cole's : I will listen to my Mom and Dad but I might forget but I'll try.  Ha Ha

and Sadie's:  She drew pictures of her sharing her toys with MaryJane.

It was fun to see the thing the kids came up with.

Christmas Tree

Once again we headed to our favorite tree lot to pick our tree!

I was so thrilled to run into one of my favorite bloggers whom I've never met before!  Stephanie at Simply Radiant.  She is so creative! I can't believe I didn't get a pic with her.  My camera was hanging around my neck the whole time I blabbed to her.  I bet she was a little overwhelmed having a complete stranger call her whole family by their first names.  Oh I was so blogstruck! Ha Ha!

Thanks for being so nice Stephanie!

We had the hardest time picking a tree out for our tiny specific space in our home this year.

But don't you worry, we found one.  Small enough to...

FIT IN OUR CAR!!!  All the way home I wasn't feeling good about it! TOO small!

After debating on the tree while we sipped our hot cocco, I couldn't take it,  I took it back.

I'm so happy I did.  This tree was my favorite of all time of the Tall and Skinny!