Christmas Day in the Morning!

 What a great day! Santa came despite the kids shenanigans, and brought them just what they wanted! Kensie was up at 3 a.m. ready to go, but we made her wait until 6.

We spent the morning opening presents, playing, and eating breakfast burritos. Then it was off to my parent's for more present opening, playing, and eating breakfast casserole and other delights.

We were all spoiled rotten this year! The kids have been enjoying their toys and games during the break from school. The house is a complete disaster because we're just having too much fun to clean {that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it}! One of the fun activities has been putting on puppet shows with the puppet theater Andrea and Spencer gave us. The kids LOVE writing scripts and coming up with all kinds of shows for me and Landon to watch.

Christmas Eve

The traditional Christmas Eve festivities were held at the Young household. As always, the highlight of the evening was the Nativity. This year the stars included:

a Wise Man with bling,

a sheep,

the three Wise Guys Men

Joseph, Mary, Baby Jesus, and the Donkey,

and the Angels.

After a delicious meal, some piano entertainment by Kensie and Andrea, present opening, and lots of fun we headed home to open Christmas Eve jammies and put out cookies and milk for SANTA!!

Merry Christmas!

More random activities....

The kid's had their school Christmas Sing on the 17th. It's always so cute! Christmas spirit was out in full force that day....
I asked a 7 foot tall woman who was standing up in the front taking pictures during the Kindergarten's song if she could please sit down so I could see my child. She called me the "B" word. I love people who think the world revolves around them and they are better than everyone else.

I got to help with Lincoln's class party following the program. We had fun playing "Jack Frost's Not Lost" {think Don't Eat Pete} and Santa Says, and the kids got to taste foods that represented different December holidays- potato latkes for Hanukkah, tamales for Las Posadas, fruit for Kwanzaa, and a candy cane cookie for Christmas.

We took a drive through the Thanksgiving Point lights. The kids thought it was great! Jackson is at the best age. He gets so excited about everything! He was constantly yelling "look at those ones!". They had a really cool ice sculpture this year that changed colors. Luckily it was not busy when we went so we could stop for a minute and watch.

No holiday season would be complete without sugar cookies!

Temple Square

We had a fun night with Matt's parents seeing the lights at Temple Square. It was a perfect night, and hence the rest of the world was there as well! The kids loved seeing all the lights, the Tabernacle, the Nativity, the Christus, and even a tour of the Conference Center. Landon was a champ and enjoyed the view from his stroller!

The Christmas Card

 

This year I decided to venture out and take pictures of the kids on location {aka outside the market and inside the information center by our house} I had one day in which to do this, which just happened to be a day of frigid temps and biting winds. It took me FOREVER to get all the kids dressed and presentable and I was not about to go through that again, so we braved the elements. I think they turned out okay.

I wanted to do a front and back card this year, but didn't want to spend a fortune. Thank you, Vistaprint! I love them because you can upload your own card design & don't have to choose one of theirs.