Christmas...

Christmas Morning:

Santa came!! The kids were so excited to see all the presents Santa left under/around the tree.

Calee and her Christmas presents.

Gavin and his Christmas presents.

Brock and his Christmas presents.

Enjoying their new toys:

Everyone had so much fun testing out their new loot!

Matt and his new toy. Surrounded by instruction manuals and reading additional info online.

Brock was trying to eat his lunch...when he was interrupted by Gavin's new helicopter.
Brock has to play with his trains EVERY day! He of coarse got a few additions to his train set.

Outside enjoying our new ride on toys:

The kids got pretty lucky with the weather on Christmas...they were able to go and enjoy some time on their new bikes and skateboard/scooter.

Here I am making a cameo appearance...Matt upgraded my camera for me for Christmas and I pretty much wanted to be behind the camera playing all day.

Christmas Eve...

Decorating Christmas Cookies for Santa:
We started out the day decorating cookies for our man Santa. The kids went nuts with frosting and sprinkles on the sugar cookies. Just doing our part to give Santa some type 2 diabetes...Yikes that's a lot of Sugar!

The Nativity scene:

Our friends the Trentadue's invited the kids to join in their Nativity scene. I was such a warm night we were able to do this outside in their front yard. The kids did a great job (thanks to the preparation of the Trentadue/Grover group!), the food was wonderful, and the company was fabulous as always! Calee was an angel, Gavin was a Shepherd, and Brock was going to be a sheep...but wouldn't keep on the ears.

Opening Christmas PJ's:

Every year Grandma and Grandpa Zeisler get the kids pj's to open on Christmas Eve. Grandma even made matching pillow cases. Thanks Grandma...the kids we're extra cuddly that night!

A Christmas Bedtime Story:

Once the kids were ready for bed we read Christmas books....And then it was off to bed so Santa could do his thing.

Matt's birthday...

Matt's 28th birthday was Dec. 22, 2008. Yikes he's getting old! Here as some pics of him and the kids enjoying his special day.

Gingerbread houses...

I am one of the activity day girl leaders for our ward...for our Christmas party this year we made gingerbread houses. The girls LOVED it! After I took home some gingerbread stuff so that Gavin and Brock could make one too/eat a lot of candy. They turned out really cute!

Big kid party!!

Calee had her Birthday party with school friends on Dec. 6th, 2008. We went to Color Me Mine and the kids got to decorate their own ceramic piece. The girls and Gavin (poor kid was so out numbered by 3rd graders), had a really great time decorating their ceramic pieces, talking and hanging out!