Christmas Presents

so here is what I got for christmas this year.

My mother -in- law got me these cute little end tables for my living room. I needed a table to put my lamp on..it's been just sitting on the ground for the last 4 months.

Craig surprised me with this camera. I think he is tired of me never bring my "big" camera places so he got me this little point and shoot I can just keep in my purse.

Craig also surprised me with these sunglasses.

I've been wanting to get the magic bullet blender for a while but they have always just been a little to much money, but this one was on sale for 20$ this christmas so I decided to get it. I love it and have made shakes 3 days straight now. So easy and convenient and apparently this thing makes salsa and chops stuff too.

I bought myself these cute shoes that just happened to be on the clearance rack at macy's one day and couldn't resist. My mother in law doesn't believe that a pointy toe helps slim you down but just looking at the picture the shoe looks so long and thin when really my very wide foot fits in it.

I bought myself this wallet. I have been needing one for some time now. :)

Since I have so many siblings we have been drawing names for the last few years and just buying one big gift instead of trying to come up with 20 separate gifts. My brother Felipe got me this year and got me this rocking/glider chair.

I got this Willow Tree "rose in my garden" statue set from my mom. The top is obviously kaydence and then Soren and then the bottom is the little boy who hasn't come yet.

Winter Wonderland

We woke up this morning to about 6 new inches of snow. Looked to be enough for the kids to finally get a good play in it. We got them all dressed up and they went outside in the backyard to play, while I went to work shoveling the sidewalk/driveway. It's kind of nice because all your neighbors are all out and about doing the same thing and you actually get a chance to talk to them :) But having a corner lot I had about 3 times what everyone else has to shovel and a 3 car garage makes the driveway huge...It seemed I was out there for so long and by the time I got in I could barely walk...the kids had already come in leaving the screen door wide open and it was freezing in the house.

Christmas EVE!!!!

Christmas is finally here!!!!! Kaydence knew she was going to open one gift today and asked if it was time about every 10 minutes. I figured she would be setting herself up for disappointment when she realized they were only pj's. Soren's reaction when he opened it up was...hey I already got these!!! (he was with me when I bought them a few weeks ago) Kaydence was more concerned that they were pants rather than a gown. She has been asking for "winter pj's" for quite some time and when I told her thats what these were she said "but they will make me too hot hot hot" They quickly warmed up to them and loved them. We had a crazy photoshoot because they had just had some sugar cookies and mixed with bedtime equals crazy energy!!! They couldn't stop giggling and running around and goofing off. BUT THEY SURE ARE CUTE!!!!!

After we opened up our eve gifts... (craig got a robe and I got slippers) Craig read the kids some christmas stories. They looked so cute all cuddled up on our very comfy sofa. We all could have slept there :) It was a very nice evening untill it was time to go to bed and I caught the kids rushing up the stairs with stashed sugar cookies in their brand new pj's...ugg! good thing I caught them on the first few steps or they would have made a terrible mess in their rooms....but now the mess stayed in the kitchen and on their sleeves. oh well that's our life :) They just don't look the same when clean, I don't recognize them :)

STOCKINGS!!!!

The last few days I have been making stocking, and finally finished the last one this morning. I like how they turned out. I have 2 that look like this and one without the snowflake overlay (just the blue stripped fabric) and one without the blue stripped fabric under the snowflake overlay...kaydence wasn't to thrilled about having blue so without that fabric and instead I put it over white fabric it made it a really light blue instead. like Lindsey my sister in law said..."she won't mind having blue once there's candy and toys inside"

it's the little things in life....

I've been trying to think of something that I have been doing the last few weeks but can't think of anything since I don't have pictures...it's like I didn't do anything :)

I went to my second cookie exchange last night and it was so fun. I never heard of this cookie exchange before this year and was invited to 2 :) must be big here in meridian idaho.... for anyone else who is as clueless as me its where you have this get together and everyone brings a dozen or 2 dozen cookies (depending on how many people are invited). while there everyone switches their cookies with everyone else so you leave home with a dozen or 2 dozen different kinds of cookies. While there they can be judged or you can just play games like any other get together. It's been nice to be invited and get to know some of the lady's in my ward. I wasn't sure I really wanted to go to this one last night...simply because the last one threw me into this eating binge for days afterwards and I really didn't want to start that up again...but I'm glad I did and had a blast. The cookies are now on my fridge and as long as I stay upstairs I am safe....

another thing that we did was installed some cabinets in the garage and cleaned and organized the garage a bit this week. So much more room in there now and I feel better than my photo stuff is off the floor. Derek, my brother in law, works for treasure valley closets which makes and installs cabinets for closets and garages among other things, but when they get a scuffed up one or return than the employees get first dibs and Derek has been gathering them for us since getting our house. We now have 2 and I love having them.

on a different note Kaydence felt the baby for the first time today. She laid her head on my belly and felt a kick and got so excited. Soren wasn't patient or quite enough to wait for one. I am so excited that they're old enough to kind of understand what's going on...

hair cut

so for some time now Kaydence wonderful perfect curls have been getting less and less curly and perfect. The longer her hair gets the more weighed down they are. They have been becoming a mess to try and comb through. I've been wanting to take her in to get a professional hair cut but couldn't wait any longer. It looks much better now!

BEFORE

....and obviously this is a very bad before....before bath or brushing even but this is what I have to work with every morning

AFTER...