We hope everyone had a Very Merry christmas!
We had Christmas at home a day early. Drove to Ohio on Christmas Eve and spent a few days there with Mike's dad's family.
The kids had a blast with their Aunt Hailey!
we went to Church on Sunday. Olivia and the boys had a great time with the other kids.
we are home now. Happy New year! :)

Channing had his preschool Christmas program last Friday! He did such a great job singing. I tried to upload one of the videos from it but for some reason, it's not working right. I will try again another time.
When the class was done singing we were invited to a cookie/juice social. It's so neat to watch Channing interact with all of his friends! He's complete opposite at school than what he is at home.

The kids and I had a great night of baking cookies!! Funny, I could not, for the life of me, get the dough to roll out. Olivia grabs the rolling pin from me and says, "Here mom, let me show you. This is how Grandma showed me." And by golly she rolled out the dough! :) Such a smart lil girl. When the cookies were done baking. I gave each kiddo their own tray and we spread out frosting, marshmellows, chocolates, etc in the middle of the table and I let them decorate as their little hearts desired! :)

See what a sister will do to a brother! lol! I used to dress my brother up when we were little, too!
Yesterday, Mom and Dad went up to Olivia's school to help her make a Gingerbread house! It turned out really cute.
Today, we had Breakfast with Santa. Olivia said this was not the real Santa. She is getting to the age where she is figuring everything out. We told her the "mall" santa was the real Santa and she said, "I know!" lol.
This year for Christmas Olivia asked Santa for: Barbies, Pillow pet, make up. Channing asked for a Tool set, Pillow pet, Star wars toys and shoes. Gavin asked for Pillow pet, star wars toys, books, baby. Gavin looked at Santa and said, "ok, I have my pillow pet now." santa replied, "you have to wait until I come to your house." Gavin says, "I have it now." lol. It was really funny. trying to bargain with Santa. ;)

A friend of mine is getting into Photography and asked if she could use me and the kids as her subjects! Of course, I said yes! She said she wasn't happy with the way the lighting turned out but I still cherish any memory I get with the kids and I think they turned out great! :)
we have been staying plenty busy getting ready for Christmas. Lots of shopping, decorating and baking! Work is going great and it's so nice having my own money to buy things with! If you all keep up with me on Facebook, you will know I pretty much update with stories and pictures on that site to all of my family and friends. I know there is a select few that have facebook so I will still update on here, too.