Christmas 2012!

We had a very blessed Christmas this year.  The kids got extremely spoiled & we may have to get a bigger house in 2013 to house all their new toys!  {Just kidding!}  But organization & spending some serious time in the toy room is top on my 2013 to do list. {Well that & finishing the kids' bedrooms once!  Any volunteers to come clean & paint Olivia's bed & dressers??}

This is the first time in my nursing career that I have worked Christmas day.  I have worked Christmas Eve overnight often & just stayed up sleepless on Christmas day.  But this year I worked both the Eve & the Day.  Which actually wasn't so bad.  We spent the weekends before & after with family & didn't feel too rushed.  Plus we actually had a real Christmas at our own house for once.  And due to a low census at work, I did get to come home Christmas Day afternoon & have a yummy meal with my little family, decorate some cookies for Santa & read some Christmas books to the kids before tucking them into bed (so Santa could come!)

So here you have it.... Christmas 2012 in pictures.  Lots & lots of pictures!!

Christmas #1:  Great Grandpa & Grandma Siebert's house!

 My pretty, pretty princess!!

 Now she's a working guy.  What you can't see is that she is still wearing heels!

 "Train track guy!"

 Princess Logan :)  Yup, this is the dress up outfit they fought over!

 Princess Hayden!

 This makes me think of the song "Let them be little." by Lonestar.  I am in LOVE that song.  Life gets tough soon enough.  I will let my 3 year old boys play & dream & be princesses if they want to! 

 Out to eat at Chances R Sunday for lunch & an "attempted" visit with Santa!

Liv & her 2nd cousin Avery.

Christmas #2:  Grandma GG's house

 Should have just gotten her boxes!

 Best shot I could get of the boys in their new hats!

Christmas Day night deorating cookies for Santa.  He came to our house while we slept on the 25th, & we did Christmas at home on the 26th.

 She did a really good job!

 Logan prefered to eat the frosting with a spoon!

 Hope Santa likes them!!

Christmas #3:  Home

Santa & his Reindeer ate almost all of our cookies!

 

Stockings & Santa gifts....

 After thoughts somehow always end up being the favorite gifts!

 Hello Kitty Earings in her stocking!

 A break for the kids to play with & sort through their new Santa gifts, while we made some good breakfast.  They can only handle so many presents at a time.  They want to open each box & play with each thing before moving on.  So a breakfast break worked perfectly!

 Then we opened presents from Mom & Dad.

 Then we had all day at home together to play, watch movies.... do whatever.  I loved that!

 Again, after thoughts are always the best gifts.  This little potty was in a $10 bath tub kit I got for Liv & this dolly potty was a huge hit!

Christmas #4:  Grandma & Grandpa Maas'

Grandma Maas got a new puppy.  The kids LOVED her!

 And I think she loved them too!  Between Hayden & Addie, I'm not sure she got put down all weekend?!

 She was such a good sport!

 We didn't get to spend quite as much time there as we had planned, because we had sick kids.  Liv was day 4 of 6 of a 102 degree fever.  Poor baby.

 Logan's 103 degree fever started that day.  He was so tired!  Luckily his sickness seems to have passed more quickly. 

 Hayden doesn't get fevers like the other 2, so he managed pretty well with this crud.  He & Addie had a lot of fun.  They are 2 peas in a pod!

Presents!  Look at this patience! 

 WOODY!!

 2 beautiful Jessies!

 He got too tired... and needed help opening :(

 Ava!

 I think its fair to say they had a good Christmas!?

 Poor Logan.  Its so hard to be sick on Christmas!

 Not sure who enjoyed the train tracks more, the kids or Jeff?

 Livi during an energy spurt on Ava's gift & Addie on Grandma's rocking elephant.

We hope you had a blessed Holiday Season & got to spend some time with your loved ones.