Together Forever

Christmas pictures

I am late in getting these posted! I have been entertaining my five kids for the holiday break and that left little to no computer time for me. The holiday break is finally over, the boys went back to school this morning, Maya is wandering around wondering where eveyone is, Dave is is Utah celebrating his sweet grandma's 100th birthday with family and I am enjoying the silence. I love to have my kids home for break, but with our out of control Nor Cal weather the past few days, we have been going a little nuts! My boys are quite active, so being house bound only brings out the naughty in them and the non stop teasing, poking and occasional hitting....oh and lets not forget the thrill it is for them to make Maya scream even higher pitched screams than usual as she runs for her life while they are chasing her down the halls. Just thinking about the noise level the past few days makes my head hurt!

Despite the noise, we did have a jolly good time together during the break, so here is a reacap in pictures.

Our Holiday Celebrations began with Maya's 2nd birthday! She is our Christmas Eve baby.

I loved stopping for a moment in all of the Christmas Eve rush and celebrating our sweet girls big day, but I can tell that I need to be a lot more organized in the future so that I can make her birthday special and not just another thing we do on Christmas Eve. Still, I spent most of the day thinking about a family half a world away and wanting to tell them how wonderful she is and how wonderful it is to watch her grow. There are so many things I would tell them if I could see them again, and the words "Thank you" do not seem big enough at all.

Here is Little Miss M in her Christmas dress - she would not quit twirling and dancing long enough for me to take a posed picture, but oh how much fun it was to see her all dressed up and twirling! I have dreamed of a dress like this for my baby girl for many many years!

Next came our traditional Christmas Eve celebration at our house with the other Smith family. Which brought a not so reverent reinactment of the Nativity, lots of good food and of course new Chrsitmas pj's made with love from Nannie!

Christmas morning came way to early!

And boy did the big guy spoil us this year...The boys got this and there has been some very heavy DDR and Guitar Hero competitions going on around here, even I got in on it and despite the fact that my boys laugh hysterically at my "lack of skills" I have a great time...even if I do STINK at it!

Maya was happy with a new teddy bear and her new baby And mom did not even get mad when she found this:

One brand new tube of Clinique lipstick down the drain...well actually not down the drain, just all over the walls, table, floor and Maya. Sheesh! What to do with this girl and her desire to put "lip" on!

All in all it was a fabulous Christmas and we really enjoyed ourselves. We even got to go to a couple of movies, the boys loved National Treasure Book of Secrets and tolerated Enchanted.

Happy New Year to you all!