Merry Christmas!!!

Well, like most of you ALL these pictures are more for my benefit, so feel free to take a glance or scroll on by.

CHRISTMAS EVE/ MY BIRTHDAY.....
We had a great Christmas Eve and I had a great birthday. It started off a little rocky, Lauryn threw up that morning, but took a good long nap and was fine from then on. Tyler and the kids got me a new ipod for my birthday, very exciting. Tyler took the boys down to my parents to go play in the snow with their cousins. Lauryn and I headed down a little later. We had a yummy dinner, lots of yummy snacks, and my favorite ice cream birthday cake. :)
As tradition has it, we all got to open our Christmas pajamas from my mom.
The kids were excited to get to open a present.

Cute lauryn waiting to open.

Kade, Joshua and Ben.

And here they all are, minus little cooper who was either eating or asleep I can't remember. But don't they all look so cute!!

My three kiddos looking very Christmasy.

CHRISTMAS DAY.....
The kids didn't all get up until about 8:30, so that was a nice Christmas present for us! And again as tradition has it, DAD is always the one you are pulling out of bed to go down. I remember that's how it was when I was a kid too!

Waiting at the top of the stairs....

Excited to see that Santa did in fact make it here!

Lauryn would open something and be content to go play with that for awhile, especially the new babies that she got along with binkies and bottles for them.

Jordan checking out some new walkie talkies.

Here is Jordan with the bow and arrow that he kept asking santa for. Good old dollar store and wouldn't you know it since it broke before the day was half over. (it accidentally got stepped on)

Lauryn got a little fairy dress up and HAD to put in on right away!



The kids all got a remote control car that can drive on the walls! They were pretty excited. Santa was smart and brought one for each of them so there was no fighting. :)


And mom was surprised and got a new Bosch mixer!! Homemade bread here I come!


After we finished up at our house we went down and had some breakfast and grandma and grandpa Harwood's house.

Lauryn saying nothing other than "cheese"
and Jordan and Kade with their new sweatshirts.


Don't know what that sad face is all about!?

Broke out the rockband that grandma and grandpa got for christmas.

Don't we make cute little betty crockers? My mom made all of us girls these cute aprons! And a cute matching one for Lauryn. She didn't want her picture taken.

Then we headed up to visit Grandma T!!

Lauryn and Jordan got hula hoops.
Jordy got a new light saber.
And Kade got the game perfection.
We had such a wonderful Christmas. It was great to spend time with family.