Christmas Eve Pictures

I decided I had to split my pictures between two posts. I know the split is lopsided but oh well. The second half of the post will be tomorrow so watch for it.

This is the kids on Christmas Eve displaying their new jammie pants. I actually made Connor's and Hillary's. I bought Breanna's on sale for less than I could buy material so I didn't make hers. She has requested that I make more like them for her though.

These are pictures of the kids stuff "after Santa Visited".

Hillary's haul. Yes she outdid everyone - but we expected that so it was okay.

Breanna's haul. She cost the most money - also to be expected.

Connor's haul - you can't see the skateboard ramp he got - I don't know where it was.

Patricks stuff on the right and mine on the left. We both did well too.

New Music

So my Wonderful Children convinced my Wonderful Husband to get me the Glee Soundtrack Volume 2 for Christmas. I know I posted about how much I loved Volume 1 - and Volume 2 did not disappoint either. So I have changed my music to some selections from those CD's. So enjoy them as much as I do.

Cute friend gifts...

Breanna is at an age where she wants to give gifts to all her friends for Christmas. I, however refuse to pay more than a dollar or two for each gift which limits her greatly. However this year we found some fleece scarfs at Old Navy for REALLY cheap so I bought her a bunch. Then she couldn't figure out how to wrap them - so we came up with putting them in cute little Chinese food boxes. The scarf went in one box and then we made "felt sushi" to go in the small box. It turned out way cute and all her friends were thrilled. The boys just got cookies in the big box and chocolate pretzels/turtles/peppermint bark in the smaller one. They were thrilled too.

This is me whipping up a batch of sushi.

These are the finished product. Cute huh?

Christmas clothes

My kids looked so cute on Sunday in their new Christmas clothes. The primary sang in Sacrament meeting too and Connor and Hillary did great.

Without the scarfs - so you can appreciate my handiwork. Yes I made the skirts.

They thought they were being funny.

With the scarfs made by my good friend Mary. I would have attempted them myself - but I started the whole project far too late and she crochets at warp speed so she offered to whip them out for me. It only took her two nights - would have taken me MUCH MUCH MUCH longer.

Yes - I have obnoxious kids. This is them pretending they love each other at my request.

Because I hate it when my contest entrys are at the top of my blog....

Yesterday Hillary was with me at my friends house. She was doing some puzzles. There was a series of 8 kids puzzles each progressively harder with more pieces. Hillary dumps all eight puzzles out and mixes up the pieces and then starts putting them together. She is surprisingly good at puzzles.

Then she turns to me and says "Am I blowing your mind out Mom?" And yes - she was blowing my mind.

Another contest...

Yet another contest I found. Feel free to enter - (or don't and increase my odds of winning). My Grandma Carol always told me - "if you don't enter - you can't win". Of course she was always talking about the publishers clearing house but I'm pretty sure it applies here too.

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