Christmas Time

I kind of did these pics backwards, but I had sooo many

to post. This is Christmas Eve and we just set the camera

up. Look how great it turned out! We were so happy to have

everyone here this year.

family pic of just the 6 of us..

Christmas Eve dinner

Family tradition: my mom and dad get everyone PJS and

look how stinking cute they all look!

Nicole's cute family

This little thing is seriously so stinking cute, love her:)

Laith and Ari are only a few weeks apart. Laith tries so hard

to love on Ari and she wants nothing to do with it. We got a

chance to spend some time with Laith before everyone else

got here and he is just so funny and smart. You ask him something,

and he says"yes" and "hungry".

Chris and Brooke were able to come down for a few days

so we were glad they got to spend some time with us.

My mom and dad LOVED having all the grandkids here

Rick and I Christmas morning at my mom's house.

We always go sledding the day after Christmas in Mt. Charleston

IT was such a blast.

Look at Ari's face

my dad and Laith

Hailey was hilarious, she would literally jump on the sled

she has absolutely no fear

Scott was loving it too!

from the left: Scott, 6 Ari 22 months, Hailey 4, Laith 21 mo,

Mia, almost 4.

These guys played and played the whole week, it was adorable!

Mia has a serious crush on Scott and was constantly kissing

and hugging him. She would ask him to help her down everytime

she needed help with getting up on the table or anything.

It was sooo cute!

I brought over little gingerbread houses for the kids to decorate

they had so much fun!

Here's Mia's!

Back to my mom's, Christmas Eve, Rick and I

Christmas day- my parents opening gifts

Mia and Hailey both got these cool microphones from Grandma

and Grandpa B. We also got the Xbox Connect so we all had a blast dancing

and playing some sports. Way fun!

okay back to our house Christmas Eve

Mia was REALLY into Christmas this year, she was

super excited for Santa to come!

She gave him strawberry milk and cookies

dad reading stories before bedtime and then she heard Santa's

reindeers outside, so she flew under her covers!

Here's what Santa brought: All Disney Car stuff, dinosaurs,

and bikes for everyone!

fun stocking stuff

Mia's cute face as she came out of her room Christmas

morning!

Her babysitter Kirstin even made her a Cars blanket

A very cool camera

After we opened presents at our house, we went to my mom's and

had breakfast and opened presents there. Then we went to

church, napped and hung out playing games and dancing all

night. It was a ton of fun.

a few days before Christmas, Grandma and Grandpa M

came over and we opened presents with them.

Mia was very excited to get her Cars movies and cars stuff

It was a great Christmas with all our family and we were

so glad we got to spend time with everyone :)

Preschool Performance, Polar Express and More!

Mia in our hotel room before Polar Express!

very excited! Waiting for her grandparents to arrive

Then she got tired since she didn't nap at all on the way

to Williams, Arizona.

Mia and Grandma M walking around the little train depot

in Williams before the train ride.

Mia got to deliver her mail to Santa's Mailbox

She was really excited.

And here's the train, it was amazing! The train pulled

up and it was snowing right when we got there. The whole

town was lit up with beautiful lights and it was just beautiful

Mia with her grandma and grandpa M

We were in the F train cart so we started heading

that direction

Mia decided to stick her tongue out on the cold pole

Waiting for us to get on the train

Taking our tickets

And here we are: they gave us hot cocoa, cookies,

read the Polar Express, sang songs, it was definitely

magical.

We were on the 5:30 train, so we got to see everything

in the light and then it got dark while we were headed to

the North Pole!

We even got to go through the time tunnel that had

lights on both sides and they told us to scream as we

went through.

Mia enjoying her cookie and giving it a "thumbs up"

Of course bear couldn' miss the trip!

This is my favorite face, because it shows just how

excited she was!

Here we are at the North Pole!

Oh look who is here? Santa came on the train and gave

everyone a beautiful bell to ring!

This is a face of "I can't believe that was Santa"

It was a very special time on the train, and Mia enjoyed

every minute. So did the rest of us!

We got to spend the night at Williams, eat at a really

good local restaurant and "tried" to get some sleep.

Mia was SOOO hyper, that we almost called the restaurant

to see if her rootbeer had caffeine in it. She was dancing around

and being crazy til almost midnight. We couldn't believe it!

At one point, she was heating her bare bum on the floor heater,

wow guess that's what happens during the holidays!!

The next morning, we got up and went to the snow to

build a snowman. Well dad built it, mom and Mia just

watched and found the assessories. It was a lot of fun!

And we got to do a snowball fight

And eat some snow

then we went to Bearizona with grandma and grandpa

M. We got to drive through a few miles to see bears

and then we got to walk through a zoo. It was a ton

of fun.

Thanks for going with us Grandma and Grandpa M!!

A few pics that didn't get put up: Mia making

candy with Brooke, Grandma Lil, Grandma B, and myself!

For all those who think my dad is always serious,

this is a classic, he's been making this face for years :)

Mia's preschool was doing a singalong last week, so this

is Mia getting ready to do.

She was very excited to see us, she practiced the songs

every day for a week and she was very serious about it.

It was really cold outside ( not sure why they had it outdoors)

but she managed to make it through

As you can see she was about the only one singing and

boy was she singing, it was really adorable. She LOVES

school so much.

Both grandparents came even though it was too cold

to get more pics, but we are so glad they came!

A few little things Miss Mia has said lately

that I have to share: She got her purse the other day

and said, "Do you know why I have to get my purse?" So

everyone will know I'm not a little kid. Our elf

Nicholas got her the monster from Rudolph and every night she takes

all my clothes out of my bottom drawer and puts him in there and covers him

up and shuts it. Then each morning, she comes and gets the monster. I asked her

why she did that and she said it's because monsters are nice during the day, but

at night, they will eat you for dinner! I thought that was really cute! This morning,

I found her in our closet with her microphone and the cat. I asked her what she was doing and

she said she was interviewing the cat about his life. It was so funny. She was even asking him about

his brothers and sisters and what he wants to do with his life.

She cracks us up! We love her SOOOO much! :)