This year though, I have oodles of Christmas/December photos (however many that may be), so instead of posting endless Christmas posts with a mind numbing amount of pictures, I think I'm going to just share the highlights...and even then, bear with me, there were a lot! I'll save Christmas morning itself for another post though.
The month of December was busy, busy, busy, but always in the best of ways! Christmas is one of my favorite holidays of the year, so we make sure to make it a full twenty-five plus days of all about Christmas around here!
So, the Highlights:
-Brucey's Foot. This little pooch made the busyness of the holiday season that much easier (ha!) when he broke his foot at the beginning of the month. Trying to keep a six month old puppy on "bed rest" was no easy task. Add in that his foot needed to be wrapped in something waterproof each and every time he went out of the house, and that he needed to be taken in to the vet's office weekly for bandage changes and he quickly became high maintenance puppy extraordinaire. We had been given a four to six week window of time for Brucey to be in his splint and I think out of mercy alone they took it off at the four week mark. I was begging to be done with it. Three boys and a high maintenance puppy was a little more than I had bargained for during the holiday season.
A green splint wrap for the Hulk Puppy, of course.
-We made an Ugly Elf hat! Nathan's office had an Ugly Elf Hat contest this year for their Christmas party instead of the Ugly Sweater Contest as they have done in years prior. The Elf theme went along with a promotional program they did over Christmas, and the boys and I had all sorts of fun helping Nathan look ridiculous! ;)
Of course we made him try everything on the night before!
The boys' request for this? Giant Christmas tree glasses and a hat that would light up. Done!
-The boys also had hat fun of their own....
-The boys decorating the tree (mostly) on their own. They did a great job and were so proud of themselves! We didn't move ornaments from where they had been placed and it took all my self control not to go and even things out. Our tree was bunchy and the ornaments were moved around daily by little hands, but they loved it and for that reason, so did I.
Drew's year to hang the star.
Somehow we never managed to get a picture with all three boys together...
...Coll was the only one who would stick around for the photos.
-Our tree survived the month of December! ...And its a tiny miracle that it did too! Between a puppy and Ninja Tanner who would daily go and beat its branches armed with a ninja sword and a mask, I truly wasn't sure it was going to make it.
-The boys' surprise boxes that came in the mail from my Aunt Ran. There was one box for each of them and they were filled with all sorts of goodies that they played with throughout the month. The boys loved them!
-Annual Gingerbread House making day with Grandma. Always a favorite and Tanny's first since he was old enough to join the big boys this year.
-The inundation of family! Closer to Christmas my parents and sisters arrived...including Auntie Kell; a big deal in our world right now because she is currently living in Australia.
-My Grandma came to visit and we went to see zoo lights (a first for us) with her and all the cousins.
-Walking Candy Cane Lane with my parents and sisters on Christmas Eve and then heading to Jenn's house to have my Dad's tamale dinner. My favorite meal of the entire year. Hands down. My birthday is two weeks after Christmas and I ask every single year for him to have a do-over Christmas Eve dinner for my birthday. I don't think he thinks I'm serious. I am Dad. Take note. Favorite meal. Ever.
We also opened our jammies at Jenn's house after walking Candy Cane Lane.
Cousins
-Baking the annual Birthday Cake for Jesus with Lala.
and looking over to see all of the kids licking sprinkles off of the floor after one of the boys spilled a jar (Ew!).
-Our newest tradition that we started this year (and one that I hope we keep forever): Giant Family sleepover on Christmas Eve. All sisters, all hubbies, all kids. One house. Enough said.
-The Daddy Elf Shirts that the boys received from one of Nathan's co-workers (like I said, Nathan's office did a promotional Elf theme in December). If you look close enough to the left of the elf is charicature Daddy...aka, elf Daddy, on each of their shirts. Tanny wants to wear this shirt every day, which makes for some major drama on laundry day.
-And finally, a trip up to the redwoods after Christmas with Auntie Kell and the rest of my sisters. Short-lived on our side since our kids were crabby that morning. We hiked maybe half way up before we realized the day was just not our day to be hiking and then hiked all the way back down with crying kids. Oye. The rest of the crew kept hiking further on and we headed home. Still pretty, and still fun.
The trees look even more giant when there's a tiny person put in front!
love, love, love!!!!
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