Christmas

 Had to start with the true meaning of Christmas, leave it to

the 2 year old to help us keep it all in perspective!

 Christmas Eve at my mom's 

we were laughing at the fact that our picture 

is always in front of my mom's tree and not ours!

 love this one!

 Mia with baby Aleena, we LOVED having Kyse, Laith,

and Aleena

 and our new PJS from grandma B

 when we got home we set the camera up, 

and tried to get one in front of our tree.

 Christmas morning! It was so funny because our alarm

went off around 6:45 and we looked at the baby monitor and saw Kellan sound

asleep so we headed in the bathroom and started brushing our teeth

when we heard this yell, " SANTA WAS HERE!" Crap! we didn't even

get it on video haha

 kids definitely made out! got a huge swingset, Mia

golf clubs and tons of shopkins/My little pony

 Kellan got Blaze stuff and cars!

 we noticed Spocks' stocking was a little empty this

year, pretty interesting since he's been very naughty

biting, stealing food, etc...

 we only played for probably 30 minutes and Kellan yelled that

he wanted to go to grandma's -he just wants to be around his cousins 

as much as he can!

 my favorite pic: Rick and Aleena- he was in heaven

 we  had a blast opening presents and eating breakfast at 

Grandma and Grandpa B's . Grandpa was there too, I didn't get any pics of him!

 back at our house with grandma and Grandpa M

 spoiled!

 Rick got me a jersey!

 Grandma and Grandpa M spoiled the kids rotten!

 busy day! Back at Grandma Bs with Laya and Marlee too!

 

 these two were hooked at the hip

 We even went to a fun parade downtown where there was real snow!

 Monday we decided to go to the snow in Mt. Charleston!

 there was a lot of it! Kellan went down by himself and

Mia did too after some contemplating :)

 We loved our new sleds!! Funny story:

so kids were both DONE after an hour ( that's why sledding is so fun to do right)

Rick looks at me and says, " Want to pretend we don't have kids for 30 seconds?"

so we left the kids crying at the bottom of the hill by a tree and went up to the highest

spot, I jumped on his back and we sledded right past them both. haha

You should have seen their faces. Too funny.

When we were dating we would go night sledding late at night, 

we are too old and tired for that now :)

 

Festive happenings

 My mom was doing her hair last month and called

in a radio station and won box tickets to the Nutcracker at the

Smith Center so she decided to take Mia. She even got 

a signed ballet slipper from one of the dancers.

 She loved every minute of it and I guess she didn't even

move an inch- the guy next to them even commented that she must 

be in dance because she is watching so intently and hasn't moved 

 We just had to go to Bass Pro and see Santa. Boy was

he cute and sooo nice. He spent so much time with the kids and

was just nodding and smiling away. Kellan keeps saying he 

wants a skateboard .YIKES

 I stood in line for about an hour while they

walked around with dad and got to play with stuff

 Kellan is constantly wearing his backpack 

everywhere he goes and wants to go to "school" sooo

bad. He thinks church is school and even if he walks Mia to school,

 that counted for him going to school. It's pretty cute.

 we have our elf again this year, "Jingle"

This is my favorite one so far, I was going to a Piyo class

and so he was doing Yoga with little water and a towel and everything.

Look at his legs!

 Rick got this "Pie in the Face" game and Kellan had to try 

it out. I thought he was pretty brave with the whipped cream.

 both kids got to make gingerbread cookies too, I brought 

Mia's class some and Kellan did some with Rick. He was

very proud and called it his " Grinchy Gingerbread boy"

 Mia's cute class decorating gingerbread boys