Gotta be ready by Christmas Eve-

I have to admit- I really love this picture.

I felt so rushed with Christmas this year even though I did most of it way beforehand.  Now it's over I'm super sad to have it over.  I really love christmas trees and lights and parties.  December is such a fun month with so many fun things to do.  Especially with kids its just too fun.  More on parties and stuff we did in future posts- 

Before you feel too bad for poor Bryan our TV burned out the weekend before christmas.  He has been praying for YEARS for this to happen and it finally did.  He says he loves it more then his kids even though I know better.  It is nice that I didn't have the stress of getting him a few more things in time for christmas.  My living room finally doesn't look like the DI.  It's kind of nice.  =) 

 I caught this picture of Bryan- notice something weird about this picture?  I guess Bryan didn't get the it's not summer memo with the shorts.

We went down to my parents on December 23rd.  They had some awesome packing snow so we tried it out!

 This is the coolest snowman I ever helped build.

The snow there was the best packing snow I've ever seen.  It's always so cold here it's usually not very good to play in.  We (but mostly my brother) built a sledding hill in my parents back yard.  I've never seen Ty so excited to sled.

Nate even made a little hill over the fence and if my dad pushed  them off the hill hard enough they could get enough speed to go over the fence.  

My sister in law is due any day with my nephew and I'm so excited!  He is going to be born right around Tyson's birthday.  Stockton went down the hill but I only got a video of that.  

Christmas Eve- 

Because it was going to be a few days until we saw my parents again we did gifts with them Christmas eve.  After getting in the hot tub of course!  They kept hopping out and laying down in the snow and getting back in.  They even went down the snow slide they made in the swimming suits.  

 Of course they got their christmas eve PJ's.  Stockton and Brett feel apart for awhile that  night but finally calmed down.  We drove home after that.  When we got home Tyson started running around the house saying he was trying to make himself tired.  The older boys sleep in Stockton's room for fun.  They were so excited they kept fighting and I kept having to get mad at them.  Not how I picture Christmas eve.