December 2014

 So my pictures are all jumbled so I'm just going to type what happened and let you interpret the pictures :)

We did an advent again this year (I really do love those things! Probably because I don't stress if I skip something) but this year I had rules. Each week contained an act of service for others, one thing to uplift/help your family, a classic christmas tradition, one thing easy, one thing spiritually uplifiting, and one thing at home (the last thing was a wildcard.) It turned out perfectly (!) and I wasn't that crazy stressed out mom trying to make everyone have memories against their will like other years. Some things we  did was went to see reindeers, christmas lights, went to addie's christmas program, pjs and hot cocoa night, we did an small acts of service night, and read the nativity.

Also, my baby turned 6. I tried out the three wish thing again and it was awesome. Addie's wish was to go bowling, get balloons, and have (3) friends over for cupcakes. We did bowling for FHE and the rest on her birthday :)

Christmas Eve was a little busier than I meant it to be. Jeremy had to run an errand unexpectedly so we decided to have brunch at ihop. Then we went home and opened our Christmas eve boxes and spent the night in pjs watching christmas movies, making santa's cookies, and read the night before christmas. 

Christmas day was tiring exciting. The kids woke up at 6:30 and finally succeeded waking us at 7:30 (going to have to fix that, the sun wasn't even starting to rise.) After a torrent of falling wrapping paper we cleaned up and went sledding on the first real snow for the winter. We played with toys and snuggled for the rest of the day. 

The rest of our holiday went by in a blur. We had a family party on Saturday and a new year eve company movie thing. For New Years Eve we put away our decorations, and played with sparklers and counted down the kids staying up all the way to 8 o'clock. Jeremy went to all night laser tag with some of his siblings and that was our 2014 :)

 Christmas Morning

 

  

The first time Barrett was in front and got a face full of snow. It was such a sad face. 

 

 after sledding

 

 Goodbye ornaments :(

 

New Years Eve was tiring on Barrett.