Tis the Season

I LOVE holidays, especially Christmas, and this year I was really looking forward to it because of my two week Christmas break. I was so excited to be able to do all the Christmas activities with the kids that I never seemed to have time for with my old job. Of course we had to get into the Christmas spirit by stopping by to visit Santa Claus. I was afraid Carson might be scared of him this year, but he walked right up to him and said "Hi, Santa!" He climbed right up into his lap next to Colby. Colby told Santa he had been a good boy (which for the most part was true) and that he wanted dinosaurs for Christmas. Then Santa turned to Carson and asked him if he had been a good boy. Colby jumped in and said "him don't talk, but him likes Elmo". Colby is such a good big brother!

We also went to look at Christmas lights by the lake. The boys were so excited to have Papa join us. The liked pointing out all the lights as we drove along. Half way through the light display we stopped to ride some fun rides. All of the boys rode the carosel and some spinning dragon ride. They loved them...especially the spinning dragon. I could hear Colby and Carson laughing so loud!

A few days before Christmas we had Gretchen, Brady, Tonya, Evan, Breckin, Jessica and Selah over to decorate cookies for Santa. Colby was excited about this because he wanted to make sure we left cookies and milk for Santa and some carrots for the reindeer. It was fun getting all the kids together...that definately doesn't happen often enough! Poor Selah was the only girl among five boys, but I think she is getting used to it! We were so excited that Gretchen and Brady were able to join us. They are finally back from Germany!

My kids say some funny things sometimes...here are a few of my favorite Christmas quotes from Colby this year: "Daddy, if you see Santa's reindeer, don't shoot them with your shoot gun, okay?" "Mommy is that was heabens (heaven) looks like?" "Carson, that is baby Jesus, but him is not dead yet."