I had the best holiday season ever. I don't know what it was about this year but I was feeling oh so Christmas-y. The boys are getting older and really understanding the whole Christmas excitement which of course added to my excitement. I made an advent calendar this year which we filled full of fun stuff to do. We were surrounded by wonderful family and friends. It was great.
We started off with a couple injuries, nothing too serious, just enough to keep my adrenaline pumping. Gavin ran at full speed into a wrought iron bar at Costa Vida one night. The kid completely close-lined himself and went down hard. I saw the whole thing from a distance and could do nothing to stop it. They have iron bars for the food line, where people stand to order and the horizontal cross bar is exactly one inch above Gavin's eye line view. BAM! unicorn horn.
This doesn't do it any justice, I took this the next day. He had a gross black and blue for a while.
Onto to the next: Everett sliced his head open right through his eyebrow, of course forgot to take a good pic of the actual stitching procedure, which was kinda cool. But he sported a band aid for a couple weeks. don't mind the chocolate coma induced stare...and drool.
One of the boys favorite advent calendar activities this year was riding the train at the mall in Provo. Some of the other favorites: Temple square lights, donating mittens to the library tree, sledding, making sugar cookies, and watching Christmas movies.
Santa made a special visit to the Grandma and Grandpa Nash house this year just before Christmas. Here are the cousins loving it.
We spent Christmas with the Lund folk this year. We slept over at my parents house we ate delicious food, played games, opened a ton of presents and had a perfect Christmas. Gavin has never gone to bed so quickly in his life. He knew Santa would not come unless he was asleep. So man did he go to bed fast! I am wondering if I can still use the Santa threats on into January...
Christmas Eve in Alpine at what we call the "Santa House". There is a huge house all lit up like temple square in the cove and Santa always visits for a while and we drove up to see him. These are the cousins sitting in the sleigh. Gavin thought it was pretty much the coolest.
Some of my cute friends from high school had an ugly sweater party after Christmas. It was a blast and it was so fun to catch up with these girls and their hubbies. Here we are looking fantastic :) We couldn't find Rob a sweater so he wore one of my dad's..which was a few sizes large.
Then last but not least we celebrated New Years with our own little partay, we made yummy food and games and music and Gav made us all party hats and we cracked open that bubbly at about 7:00 PM! Yeah you read that right, I know, we are animals right! :) The kids went to bed and Rob and I relaxed and watched movies.
I know we look a little rough but we just got back from sledding O.K?!!
Merry New YeaR!
Normal...no??
Everett celebrated his second birthday on Saturday! I really can't believe he is two already, my-my how the time does fly. This means that potty training a SECOND kid is looming in the near future. bleh...I can't even think about it. Anyway on a happier note :) We had a great day. We went to the dollar store and picked out exciting things (wink-wink- take advantage of the dollar store while they still think its awesome!) We had family over to celebrate and eat cake. Everett was very pleased with himself all day long!
preparing to spit on the cake----I mean BLOW out the candle :)
Me trying once again to have a special little family moment picture...don't we look special?
He got spoiled by both grandparents! Here he is with grandma Nash.
Awaiting the guests arrival for the party.
Everett's only birthday request was to eat cake...a boy after my own heart :) He wanted blue cake, so I made him a cookie monster cake with oreo cream filling. Happy Birthday Cutie Pie!
