Christmas Day continues...

After opening up presents at our place we packed up and headed to my moms for more presents:

And lunch:

Then we headed back to our place where the Brooks family gathered to open present:

WHEW!! What a day!

Christmas Eve

Every year, since I could remember, my whole family gathers at my grandparents house for a Christmas Eve party!! We always have a subway sandwich and pizza for dinner. Odd combination but oh so good!! Im so glad we can continue the tradition with our little people as well! Here are some pictures of us enjoying the festivites. Here is Vaughn getting excited to open presents:

This year we did some christmas caroling before we opened up the presents. We thought it would be fun to do the 12 days of christmas with each group singing a diffrent day. It turned out to be way funny!! We kept messing up and singing the wrong number day. I guess you had to be there.

Someone was worn out from all of our partying:

This is what Vaughn got and it was I quote " what he has always wanted for christmas!!"

For my sister Sara, who couldnt make it to the party due to she lives in Missouri, here is Lisa opening up what you gave her for christmas:

And here it is up close so you can see it better...No its not Marshall I wouldnt give that cute thing away...Its the 20 on her ring finger!

Here are some of the cute great grandchildren. These three are all exactly 3 months apart. First there was Lizzy then 3 months later Marshall then 3 months later Clair! Oh arent they cute!

And here is Marshall in his cute Santa outfit... you can't really tell cause he's trying to eat him feet

Then we were off to our house to go to sleep so Santa could come and visit us!! I love the holidays and getting together as a family!!

Marshall is 9 months old?!!

Marshall's 9 months old!! Can you believe it?!! 3 more months and he will be 1. AAHH!! Im not ready!! Oh man he has grown.. He is still wearing 6-9 month clothes. He thinks he can crawl now but he really can't. He loves playing in his saucer, digging toys out of the toy box, and standing. He can stand pretty good while holding on to something! Well here he is in his little christmas outfit:

Here is the boys in there christmas clothes: And YES that is a bandaid on Vaughns nose. He just HAD to have it on:

Meeting Santa

Me and a few of my friends ventured out to see Santa and his reindeer at the Weber State Bookstore. We had a pretty good time. They had some crafts the kids could do. We picked to make picture frames: Here are the boys busy at work on those:

Then we were off to go see Santa. We had to wait in a LONG line. Good thing they had a few reindeer games to play to keep the kids busy:

Then there was nothing to do but look at all the neat stuff on the shelves by us in line:

Then FINALLY we were to the front of the line!! When I notice Vaughn doing the pee dance. You have got to be kidding me. I ask him if he needs to go potty. He says No. I say are you sure, cause if you pee on Santa he definitely won't bring you presents. He said Im sure.. Then its our turn to sit on Santa's lap. I pull out my camera I actually remembered to bring and it wouldn't work....UUGGHH!! are you serious!! Good thing they were taking pictures for us!!

Whew it all turned out ok! Well except for Vaughn asked Santa for Stinkey the garbage truck and that was not one of the toys Santa's helpers had picked up for him.. So back to the toy shop the helpers had to go for Stinky the garbage truck.