Christmas Activities

Christmas has come and gone...December always goes by so fast. We had a fun holiday season this year. RIley was off-track from school all of December, which was really nice. We could stay up late and sleep in as much as we wanted to! I already posted about our trip to Disneyland...so here is what we were up to the rest of December:

Aunt Debbie came to visit for a few days. We went to Temple Square to see the lights while she was here. I took the girls up to Salt Lake in the van, and Cory stayed at home with Zane (it was way too cold for the little guy to be out, even though I think he would have loved the lights). The girls had fun, but the night did not end too kindly for me. We parked in a parking garage right across the street from Temple Square, and you know those concrete posts they have in parking garages to keep you from running into walls? Well, I scraped the entire passenger side of the van on one when trying to escape the parking garage. It wasn't pretty. We took the van into the body shop to get an estimate on the damage...turns out the insurance company decided to total the van. It wouldn't have been such a bummer (because the van is getting up there in age and miles) but we had just bought a new car a week and a half earlier. We were planning on replacing the van in the next year or so, but I just wasn't ready to say my final goodbye. After many phone calls to the repair shop and insurance company, Cory figured out a way for us to get the van back in one piece. I can't wait! After three weeks of squishing three kids/car seats/booster seats across the back of Cory's Honda Accord, I'm ready to get my van back! One more week and it should be out of the shop...

Oops...those dang posts!

Some of the fun before the parking garage incident...

We stayed at home for Christmas this year. The kids were really excited for Christmas, though Bailey was kind of nervous to think about Santa sneaking into her house while she was sleeping (which is why the girls ended up sleeping on our floor Christmas Eve). Santa did come, though, and when the clock hit 6:00 a.m. we were up opening presents. Both girls and Zane were more than happy with their presents he brought them. Riley got an ipod, Bailey got the princess dress-up clothes she had been DYING for, and Zane got a ball-popper he had his eye on. After opening presents we went to church and then went to my parent's house for dinner.

Here is Cory reading "The Night Before Christmas" to the girls on Christmas Eve.

Pictures in front of the tree in their new jammies:

Christmas morning...

Zane has been sucking on his lip lately...it kind of makes him look like an old man. But he sure does love his ball popper he got from Santa!

Bailey was in heaven with her princess dress-up chest.

Riley's new ipod.