Holiday Happenings

Christmas Morning ..





Looking at fish at Petsmart. That was the bribe to get them to be good while standing in line at Borders while Christmas shopping.

Sooo our Christmas holiday was marred by the breaking of our camera. You'll have to live with my less than great blackberry photos or until we get one of our old cameras up and working again. Here's what the past few weeks have entailed for us:
-Christmas eve celebration at friends' from the ward. We made gingerbread houses out of graham crackers, had a nativity (the girls were the angels), sang a couple songs and had dinner. it was fun.
-Christmas eve night we didn't stay up too late getting everything ready, but there were still some last minute touches that had to be done. Santa made the girls' a baby doll crib. It probably cost double what the one at Pottery Barn Kids cost, but I think Santa had fun using all his tools.
-Christmas morning the girls were really excited when they saw the presents. To my surprise they didn't open any gifts prior to it being Christmas. I figured they would want to rip the paper off right away when they saw presents under the tree. They're growing up so fast I guess I should get used to surprises like this.
-Presents included: toddler beds from ikea, a ballerina dress-up dress, markers, battery powered toothbrushes (Violet's afraid of hers) and lots of hair bands.
-Christmas night we went to my Grandma Culver's house and had fun with my grandma, dad, Bryce and Stephanie. The girls got a wood highchair, alphabet blocks, some clothes and a music table.
-The Saturday after Christmas my mom and step dad came into town and stayed with us for a few days. I made a Christmas dinner with the turkey we got free from Tyler's work. It was my first time making a turkey and I was really nervous, but it turned out GREAT! All the basting and in and out of the oven gave me a couple burns. Overall it was really fun, and a huge thank you goes out to Oprah for her recipe.

New Years we spent over at friends house and then Tyler's family finally rolled back into town after being gone for two weeks to UT. We just had Christmas with them. I missed Tyler's sister Audrey babysitting and having the Paxtons here.

Ava when going to bed with the couple beehive girls we had come babysit said "I have to go potty" and then didn't come back downstairs. She just went to bed on her own. Crazy!

Bedtimes have been especially crazy because the girls are in the same room now. Their naps are on and off and they play and play bumping, screaming, laughing and crying. But it's SO cute to see them sleep either in the same bed or in their own beds in their room. We're semi-preparing to have a two bedroom place for school since we don't know where we'll be or how much housing is going to cost.

That's it for now... more soon!