Christmas

Christmas morning I think I was more excited than the girls! I woke up at 7 and couldn't sleep anymore, so by 7 45 I tried to wake up the girls, without them seeing me, so I grabbed their remote, turned on their tv and turned the volume up, a little rustle but NOTHING. So I turned it off and tried the same thing again, still nothing! I went and nudged Brikayla, but still nothing...so I started knocking on their door really loud, finally I saw Brikayla getting up, so I booked it to my room. ( I was hoping she would wake up, remember that Santa came and get all excited) but...she came into my room and said, "Mom, someone keeps knocking on my door and its waking me up!" so I responded "maybe it was Doodle (our elf on the shelf) trying to remind you that Santa came. (I know I know I'm worse than a kid!) Thats when it clicked, and she got so excited. Usually Santa brings presents to our tree in our family room, but this year since they got bikes and everything, he brought them to our living room - well we still went into the family room to get our stockings first, and when Brikayla saw that there were no presents, she got all upset, but there was a note from Santa that explained, so that quickly passed :)


When the girls saw the bikes, they were so excited! They went over to them, climbed up on them and wanted to ride them right away!


Unfortunately, Ry had had a cold for about a week or so with a bad cough :( So after opening about three presents, she said she was tired and didn't feel like opening her presents. I held her in my lap and opened them for her. We gave her some medicine and she started coughing so bad that she threw up :( I felt so sad for her! After and hour or so she was feeling better and could enjoy her toys. Brikayla got her LALAloopsy doll she was so excited about! Rylee got a car seat for her babies which she loved!

We made our Christmas breakfast, got ready and headed to the Draegers - where Jays parents and spend Christmas Eve. Out there, we exchanged gifts and ate breakfast sandwhiches. Around 1:30 we headed to Bountiful to my grandparents house to spend some time there. Its always good to see them, we need to do it more often. They sure love their great grand daughters :) Around 5:30 we headed back to the Draegers for dinner and some games. It was a great Christmas filled with family, which is the most important thing to us!

Christmas Eve

The first part of the day was kind of lazy, we made cookies for Santa, and just hung out around the house. At 6:30 we headed to my parents house like we do every Christmas Eve. The girls were excited to tell everyone what they had asked Santa for - Brikayla asked for a LaLaLoopsy doll, and a bike. Rylee asked for a bike as well. They sent him a letter this year and he sent back video messages which the girls really loved! (magicsanta.ca) We all decorated salt dough ornaments, which is the first time we've done this and it was a lot of fun! We loved spending time together and eating junk and whatnot.







Around 10 pm we all opened up our pjs - I got Brikayla some LaLaLoopsy pj's, thought she'd love them. She opened them up, looked at them and in her '13 year old attitude' voice she said "I wanted a LaLaLoopsy doll, NOT pajamas! Oh well, they're cute though". It was pretty funny, we all got a good laugh.

After PJs the girls opened their gifts. They got pink beanbag chairs from my parents, along with a bunch of clothes, black boots, a ton of toys - Brikayla got a new Leapster because hers has been acting up, and now Rylee can have Brikaylas old one.


Ry got a Leapfrog cell phone which she LOVES - she has a thing for phones :) From Cristian Brikayla got a Barbie camera, Ry got a learning piano that you can sing karaoke on. Braden and Ash got the girls Dora colorwonder stuff :)



I had Braden, and got him a cd he wanted as well as a Cafe Rio giftcard, He had me and got me a set of earrings and a necklace which I love. Jay had Chels, he gave her 20 dollars because she's going to Cali in Feb and she wanted money for that, Chels had Ash and got her a gift card to Jamba Juice, Ash had Cristian and got him a Starbucks giftcard, and Cristian had Jay and got him the Five Finger Deathpunch cd.

I love that we draw names, it is a lot of fun!



We did a plaque hanger for my parents as well, with four plaques to hang. We also made them a photo calendar :)
Barb got me a new phone (since a couple weeks before Christmas mine took a swim in hot chocolate) and gave Jay some money. Barb got some fun stuff from my parents and sent my mom on a scavenger hunt to find her big jewelry box. It was a lot of fun! I love my family very much! We had a great time!

December 23

We always celebrate Christmas with Jays parents 2 or 3 days before Christmas. They go down to Lehi on Christmas Eve, so its the only time we have to do it. They took us out to eat at one of my favorite restaurants - Spaghetti Factory! It was definately delicious!! This year we were completely and totally spoiled by them. Jay is an only child, so our girls are the only Grandkids.


Brikayla and Rylee got a trampoline. They are so excited about this and can't wait for spring so we can get it set up! The girls also got some fish. They each got one. Rylees is white and she named it Baby (anything that is small, she calls it baby - if there are two pictures of Dora, and one is smaller, she'll call it "baby dora" etc. It's pretty cute :) So since the fish is small, hence the name) Brikaylas is orange and she named it Princess. They love their fish and love to feed them. We've had them for 10 days now and they're still alive, so that's good.



They also each got a princess doll which they love, Brikayla got Ariel and Rylee got Belle and they hardly ever leave their side.




After Black Friday, I got one of my gifts, a deep freezer! I'm so excited about it! I also got a sewing machine which I am loving already. My legs are short so my pants are always so long, being able to hem them is amazing! I've also fixed a few things, and today just did my first actual project, which is a pillow case. I used some old sheets instead of buying fabric, because I wasn't sure how it'd turn out. I'm excited that it turned out really well.


I'm going to let Brikayla pick out some fabric and make her one for her birthday. I'm also excited to make her some dress up skirts. She wants ones that go down to her ankles and I haven't been able to find any anywhere. I also got a new camera which I was really excited about. Jay got a camp stove with two burners that we will definately get some use out of!!


He also got a huge cooler, a BluRay player and we all got a bunch of other things as well. Like I said, we were SPOILED by Ron and Suzanne! We made them a plaque hanger and a few plaques to hang in their home as well as a calendar like we do each year.




We love them so much and are so grateful for everything they do for us!