sweet-awesomeness: Our Christmas 2012 Post

Warning: I say "cute"(and rightfully so) in many forms many, many times in this post. You have been warned.

Christmas Eve was spent at my mom's house. My mom made us a delicious meal (she always makes salmon for Christmas Eve...yum!) and we acted out the nativity and did our brother and sister presents. It was such a good time! Sure do love all the time we get to spend with family during the holidays.

I especially love my mom.

Seriously?? A picture speaks a thousand words. I love all their different faces, kind of telling of their personalities. Little goobes. I love them. Can you believe Jaxtons face? Cause I can't. THEY ARE SO CUTE!!

The nativity was really too cute. The actors did whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted, regardless of story line. :) In case you couldn't tell we thought it was SOO picture perfect regardless. I just want to kiss all those little cuties!!

These little goobers kept finding this big present to be the perfect seat throughout the night--sometimes together--it was their perfect size. They always looked so proud. Cuties!!

My mom makes everyone super cool PJ for Christmas Eve. Here are the little guys of the family sportin' theirs. They loved them. And seriously?? SO CUTE!!

Check this out, it doesn't happen everyday. Hazel was all about Justin for a little while, and Rod joined in; precious.

Clarissa a Zach lounging in their new pants--Zach's are UofU pants, Clarissa's are BYU. Hehe, funny. :)
I should have taken a picture of EVERYONE in their pants...dang. They were sooo cute!
My mom thoughtfully picts out special material for each person, so it makes it really fun to see what she picked for each person. Except Steve and Justin, they opt out of the pant tradition. They are too cool for school/pj pants. So my mom get them tools. Again, very thoughtful.
It was really, so much fun. I love my family.

Christmas Day

These are my two little goobers on Christmas morning. I heart them.

Awww. To bad Rod thought it was more of a headlock than hug...still cute.

The kids LOVED opening presents (shocker, I know.) But I mean the actual act of opening boxes and unwrapping; not just what was in them. They loved to help us open our gifts even if it wasn't for them.

Jax got me a clip for my hair, and got Justin some pens, and a ball for Rod. Not the ball in the picture--a dog ball, from All a Dollar--it was super cute. ;) He was really excited about that. He was excited about everything. That might have something to do with the copious amounts of sugar he consumed so quickly and early in the morning...;)

I love these pictures of Justin and Jax.:)

So this year I got 90% of their presents at Savers. It was like $15 total. And they thought it was great. I may or may not do that again, just because wrapping was a HUGE pain. Nothing is in boxes, it was terrible. Plus, some stuff doesn't work very good. (Yes, I know that is why they where at Savers in the first place, but I'm just saying, that was still annoying. Plus, broken crap belongs in the garbage, not Savers.)

Like this car track, it works like 40% of the time, super cool when it works, but you really have to mess with it to get it to go...flop.

At about 11am we head over to Preston and Debbie's house for lots and lots of spoiling and yummy food.:)

Great Grama Wing, Great Grama Gause, and Brooke and Jason and their kids were there too, tons of fun! We all get presents from all of them, I say again, spoiled...but seriously, we don't super mind. ;)

It was really, really nice to be with everybody; such a nice afternoon. Lots of smiling and laughing; and napping by babies, which in turn leads to more smiling and laughing.

We love the Gause's.

Jaxton modeling his new Jam-ams from Grama Gause.

Grama stealing a hug from the little goobe--you gotta steal em' if you want em'! :)

Grama and Grampa Gause had some real "score" presents with my kids. These shovels are one in that category. Jax loves this shovel. He loves to go and shovel, see the picts at the end of this post.

I know these two pictures of Rod are blurry, but that's all I got. And you can still see the excitement through the blur. Jax and Rod both got 2 of these super cool monster trucks, EACH! They were in heaven. If I had to pick a favorite present they each got for Christmas, these monster trucks would probably be it for both of them. They are OBSESSED with these monster trucks. They each have a monster truck in their hands about 75% of their time at home. They LOVE THEM. Such a simple thing; you just can't top it.