Christmas Spider

Last year my sister Shauna found this really cute story about Christmas spiders and how much they love the beauty of the Christmas tree and add their beautiful tinsel to the tree. Shauna made beautiful Christmas spider ornaments last year and gave it to me with the Christmas spider story. Well my Christmas spiders didn't let me down last year and as you can see they didn't let me down again this year. They left me their beautiful Christmas tinsel yet again.

Christmas 2009

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

We had a very nice Christmas season this year. We went and picked a tree from a tree lot. We looked for the biggest tree we could find that we liked. The kids had a lot of fun hunting around the tree lot looking for a tree. Once we found the one we wanted I had to hold it up while Steve cut it. I was buried in the tree. We found a 11-12 foot tree. It was beautiful. We had to use a ladder to put the lights on the tree.

Christmas Eve was also nice. It was a little different this year because we did not have any extended family here and Steve had to work and Austin was with his mom for the holiday but we were still able to enjoy the night together just me and the 4 little ones. I made their pajamas again this year and made hats to match all of them fit except Sariyah's hers was to small but she wore it for the pictures to make me happy.

Christmas morning daddy came home from work and we had a wonderful surprise for the children. Santa had left all kinds of wonderful things for each of them. Sariyah got a mp3 player and I-Dog, Savannah got the barbir balloon carriage she asked Santa for, Sienna got a kitchen with all kinds of food and fun to go with it from Santa and Blaize got a new Lightning McQueen bike of which he said "OH WOW" (one of his favorite expressions). Steve and I also got some fun things for Christmas. We missed having Austin around but know that he was enjoying his time with his mom and sister and brother. All in all we had a great Christmas!

Cookie Exchange

I was invited to attend a Cookie Exchange at my friend Ann's house. I decided to do peanut butter popcorn trees with m&m ornaments. They turned out really cute and yummy and were a big hit. I think I may have to do these again next year. This is what 6 dozen peanut butter popcorn trees look like. Had a great time and can't wait for another fun time with Ann and her family!

Santa

The kids got to see Santa at our ward Christmas party. Blaize, Sienna, and Savannah were very excited to get to see him. Blaize wasn't scared at all he was very happy especially when he was given a bag of candy to eat. :)

Christmas Lights on the House

As many of you may know Christmas is my favorite holiday and I love to decorate. This year while my husband was out of town for a few days I was a little inpatient and decided I would put the lights on the house by myself. Well I managed to get it done and only fell off of the ladder once. A few little bruises never hurt anyone right. :) Anyway it really did turn out nice and Steve thought I did a great job.

Jumping in Leaves

The girls have been talking about wanting to go outside and rake up the leaves and jump in them. Well we don't have very many trees in the front yard but they managed to rake up a little pile big enough for Sienna to jump in and have some fun.