Christmas Eve

It has become tradition that we spend Christmas Eve over at my parents house.

We had a fabulous dinner, played Christmas songs with chimes, watched a Christmas movie, broke a pinata and then grandma tops off the night with a Christmas story.

Ever since the girls were little it has been tradition that we let the kids open up the gift from Mommy and Daddy on Christmas Eve. And every year its the same thing......Pajamas!

You think the kids would catch on but it cracks me up every year listening to the girls discuss what they think they are going to get. And then a little disappointed when they realize its just clothes. Hopefully they catch on at some point because its never going to changeHere they are opening their gift thinking they are going to be a Littlest Petshop adoption center and a easy bake oven candy maker.

NOPE........Just Pajamas. Darn!

Brian and Jennifer had taken the girls shopping the day before and thought it would be fun to break a pinata on Christmas Eve. The girls were so excited to do this. They got to pick out the Pinata and named it Mexico T because that's what the tag on the bottom said. They talked about Mexico T all day long and couldn't wait to break into it.

Christmas Lights

AHHH,Christmas.......The most wonderful time of the year. I love Christmas time. I Love everything about it, the spirit, the smell, the christmas music, and everything seems to taste better at Christmas time. But with it all, the craziness starts.

Its December 23rd and we are finally taking the kids out to see Christmas lights.

We started off the night headed to Zoo lights but once we arrived it looked as though the whole city of Phoenix had arrived at the zoo the same time we did. We turned around and thought we would have better luck at the Temple lights.

Once we got to the Temple it was also pretty busy but it was so nice to walk around and see all of the lights. My favorite are the Palm trees with Angle wings on them.Alex's mom came to spend Christmas with us. She came from New York so she is really enjoying the weather. What we think is cold, is perfect weather for her.

Its hard to tell but those are Palm trees with angle wings.

The kids were having fun pulling funny faces

We found a place to sit and the kids had a blast posing for pictures for us. We spent a lot of time at this little seating area just taking pictures and talking. It was nice to just be with the family.

Here's Kyler trying to get up on the bench. He had fun getting up and down.

Proud of himself once he got up.

Auntie and Uncle Brian came from Utah to spend Christmas with us.