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Sunday, December 29, 2013

Christmas Morning 2013

 
The kids were thrilled with their stocking stuffers.

 
Once again this year Ruby asked Santa for a cheese stick for her stocking.  

 Captain American jacket.  Sure pays to have a mommy  who works for Adidas.



Helping mommy open her stocking.  



 
Carson is so interested in this gift that Ruby is opening because he picked it out for her and just KNEW she would love it.  (and she did!)
 


Something to keep Casey warm while hunting (and of course Beaver-orange)
 
Ruby's new vest.





 
I love how Ruby was patiently waiting (with hands folded) while her mommy opened a gift.  

 
Santa brought Kristin not one, but two juicers and gave her the choice of which one she wanted to keep.  Now, that's service. . .  (oh yes, the orange hat on her head was from Santa as well).


 
Still waiting. . . . 

The other juicer!





This was Carson's "Lego Christmas".  He got eight different sets.  I love how he is so involved with making them, and looking over the instructions to make sure he got it right.  He can spend hours doing his Lego creations, and so proud of the results. 



Auntie Kat and Ruby are working on a paper doll creation. 


Had to move to the kitchen table so we could eat on the dining table. 
(P.S.  Kat is wearing her leopard PJ's that Santa brought her --  She put them on Christmas Eve, and kept them on all Christmas day, even wearing them over to Kristin's house.  I guess they were a hit!)


Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Random Holiday

 
When Kristin and Megan were toddlers, Aunt Stephanie made them each this nativity set.  It's all material and yarn.  It has lasted over 30 years and now Kristin's children are enjoying it.  Ruby set it up on the couch. 
 "Thank you Aunt Stephanie for the gift that keeps giving!"
 
Decorating Grandpa Ray & Grandma Carrie's tree.


 
Getting ready to see Santa.  



 
Kristin's friends from Bellevue Christian High School came for the day.  This is Jessica's little girl, Emory.  

 
Here the three kids are getting all over Katie Mac!  


Carson helped his mommy bake muffins and cookies.



 
All ready for the BIG NIGHT!  



Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Ahhhhh. . . . . . .

Lucky found Baby Jesus in the manger and was giving Him a love in the Christmas tree.  Ahhhhhh. . . . .
 


Friday, December 6, 2013

HALFY BIRTHDAY

 
HALFY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
HALFY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
HALFY BIRTHDAY DEAR CARSON AND RUBY
HALFY BIRTHDAY TO YOU.
Doesn't everyone celebrate when they turn 5 1/2?

I remember giving Kat a halfy-birthday party once.  I served 1/2 of a PB&J sandwich, 1/2 of a banana, and 1/2 of a cupcake to the kids.  One mom responded by giving  Kat a 1/2 dollar!
My tradition with my girls was to give them a pair of socks on their 1/2 birthdays -- so this year I continued the tradition with the twins.  

Monday, December 2, 2013

Lucky

Look who showed up the day after Thanksgiving?  LUCKY -- the elf.  Kids were thrilled to see him again. 


 
Lucky found himself hanging from a curtain rod one morning!  Never know where that little Lucky will show up next!

Decorating My Tree

On Friday night after the family attended the tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Ruby asked if she could spend the night at my house.  It was the first time I had just one of the twins for overnight.  It was great!  Such a difference with one (and I would have just as easily taken Carson, but he had big plans the next day with his Daddy).  Ruby was so excited about getting to help me decorate the tree, that she didn't even care about eating breakfast  -- till 10:00 AM.  We separated out the fragile ornaments from the non-breakable ones and she hung all the non-breakable ones on the tree.  She was counting out just the right amount of duplicate ornaments.  FIVE each since she is five (5 tatted snow flakes,
5 sand dollars, etc). 
We played Christmas music and had a great time together -- just her and me! 
 






 
Here she is taking the wise man to meet baby Jesus.  



I moved this big Santa down so she could see his face under all those curls.  But she was most interested in what he had going on underneath his velvet Santa coat! 




 
She did an excellent job at making a chain  to hang on her tree at home.  And was very proud of her work, too.