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Christmas morning

January 6, 2017

We woke up Christmas morning happy to see that Santa had been there! We told Maxwell he couldn’t get up until 6:30 and he was standing right next to my bed at 6:30 and 30 seconds! We got everyone else up and made the kids wait at the stairs before coming down. I love these pictures…Maxwell blocking his eyes so he doesn’t see anything before he’s all the way down and Spencer helping Baby down the stairs. The best….

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Santa was pretty good to everyone this year!

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The kids checked out their haul – and honestly were a little disappointed! ha! Maxwell was missing his Millennium Falcon and Spencer had no remote controlled shark. hmmmm….

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They still had plenty of fun stuff to check out though…

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Baby loved her baby doll and did a good job feeding it and feeding herself! ha!

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Stocking stuffers are always the best part in my opinion…

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(yes, those are TicTacs Baby is dumping into her mouth!)

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Just when we thought that was it, we discovered ole Santa had actually left two presents in my office! Sneaky Santa and two happy boys!

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The remote controlled shark was hilarious for all! It took some getting used to to make it go but provided plenty of entertainment for sure! Check out this video.

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My favorite picture of the day…

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It was then time for some toy assembly…

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Christmas pancakes…

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and 1 more present from me and Robert.

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A few more pics from the fun…

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xmas morning

What a fantastic Christmas morning!! But the day wasn’t over yet – we had family to celebrate with! See you Monday!

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Christmas Eve

January 5, 2017

Like last year, Christmas Eve was unseasonably warm. Not very festive but it did make dressing for church easier not having to worry about coats!

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We went to the 12:00 family service. The boys did great…Samantha did ok.  I took her out to the parlor for much of the service but she enjoyed being there and I enjoyed getting to dress her up and show her off!  🙂 She was looking pretty cute in my old dress!

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And the boys had on their holiday red and white, of course! (and I cannot get enough of Spencer’s sweet face in this picture!! 😍)

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I sure do love this crew!!

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We got a family pic at church but the sun caused some squinting and funny faces so this is the best we got!

xmas eve

We didn’t do much that night but Maxwell did write a goodbye note to Gingerbread Elf!

gingerbread elf

After dinner we put out our cookies…

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Posed for a picture…

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Gave each other Christmas Eve hugs…

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and got SO EXCITED WE COULD HARDLY STAND IT!!

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It was then off to bed to let the visions of sugarplums dance in our head!

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Cookie party

January 4, 2017

Alright – the Christmas recapping begins! On the Friday before Christmas Eve, I let the boys invite some friends over for a little cookie decorating party! Maxwell invited Lila, Gabriel, and Butler and Spencer invited Sebastian over. This was Spencer’s first time inviting his own friend over and he was pretty excited!

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I had all the cookies ready to go for when they all arrived…

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And they didn’t waste anytime getting that icing and those sprinkles on the cookies!

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cooki eparty

cookie party

The boys’ masterpieces…

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Delicious! Everyone then played outside…

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and had little lunch before heading home. (please note that Spencer had no problem hanging with all the big kids! Sebastian played inside with me for a while and then left a little early.)

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cookie party

It was the perfect lead in to Christmas Eve!!

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2017!

January 2, 2017

Happy New Year!! I can’t wait to see what this year has in store. Looking forward to many fun adventures with my best guy…

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and my 3 favorite people!

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Happy New Year!

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Outtakes

December 28, 2016

You wouldn’t know it by looking our card but I did actually pay a photographer to take pictures of us this year! They didn’t turn out so well to say the least, hence the card using pictures I took. I was optimistic and actually snapped this super cute mirror selfie of us before we left!

mirror selfie

But, we just had bad luck with the photog that morning, mainly because it was freezing. FREEZING! My kids were not having it…especially poor Maxwell who has zero body fat to keep him warm! ha! Here are the best of the bunch (which isn’t saying much!)

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Please look at Spencer and Samantha in this picture – blue eyed twinkies!

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This pretty much sums it up – Baby is miserable, Spencer is looking everywhere except at the camera, and Maxwell has a (literal!) frozen smile on his face! Ha! Merry merry!

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I think I’m sticking to the pictures I take myself next year!

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