Merry Christmas 2013

Now, on to our Christmas Day.  This year we had a fun time coming up with ideas for gifts for the girls.  We decided that as their parents, we would give them each a book, a hobby and a movie.  Santa gave them a toy, a game and coloring books, and grandparents...like usual....spoiled them over the top!  :)  We had a wonderful Christmas and a fun full two weeks of playing with all the new toys, hobbies, games and watching movies!  Here are most of the pictures...

Here is the set up.  I think I was most excited that Santa brought us matching stockings this year!  YEAH!!  You can see the 3 we had before were still hanging on the wall.  The older girls were really worried about what Santa would do with only 3 stockings.  Good thing Santa is so smart.  :)

 

 Good Morning everyone.  Caleb wasn't sure what was going on - but the girls convinced him this little car was for him.  He has since taken many, MANY rides around the house in it.  It's fun to watch him LOVE the rides his sisters are willing to take him on.  They open the door for him to let him know they are done with the ride and he will quickly close the door to say, "Keep Going!"  They are great sisters, because they will usually take him on another round or two.  Writing this a few weeks after Christmas, Caleb is very possessive of his little car.  If friends come around or the girls try to get in, they quickly learn/hear that THAT is HIS car.  hahaha

 Beep, Beep, Beep!

 Lot's of new fun coloring books

 Thanks Aunt Tamara and family for all the fun crafts, coloring books and art projects.

Ali and her green frog from Grandma and Grandpa Broderick.  Thank you!

 Adalyn loved her Disney Princess sticker book.

 Andie has had fun with her new nail polish!  We got a LOT of new nail polish this year.  It's been fun.

 Ali loves rocks and is always trying to bring random rocks inside.  So, for her hobby, I found this Crystal Mining kit.  She LOVED it! and had fun finding, cleaning, polishing and recording/naming the different crystals she found.

 Shawn got me an Amazon gift card.  I haven't decided what to use it for yet.

 Princess Candyland is probably the MOST played game in our house as of December 25th.  Adalyn wins about 95% of the time - and she even plays with all the rules!  She LOVES it and so do we!

 Beat the parents.  This is a fun game, but Ali gets frustrated because she can't read and understand all the cards.  It will be more fun in a year or two when the girls get older.  Andie on the other hand is a competitive little sneak!  This is a trivia game and one day I caught her reading through all of the cards.  I didn't think it through until we played it that night and as we were in the middle of reading a question to the kids, she quickly blurted out the answer.  I said, "How do you know?"  she replied, "I read that card today and already know the answer!"  haha.  She has a memory like no other!  It's probably photographic.  :)

 Andie got Legos...and was so excited.  We're not the best picture takers/lookers.  :)

Adalyn's big present from Santa was a little people princess castle.  Boy of Boy....her expression tells it all!

 Grandma and Grandpa Pratt got Ali a doodle bear.  She exclaimed while opening it, "I'VE ALWAYS WANTED ONE OF THESE!!!!"  That bear has been doodled and washed on many times - and she still loves it.  The second it comes out clean clean again, she's doodling flowers on it again.  Thanks!

 Andie wanted a BIG BUTTERFLY Stuffed animal.  A butterfly pillow pet did the trick!  Thanks Grandma and Grandpa!

 Shawn got Star Trek of Catan...bummer is we need at least 3 people to play, but it was fun when we played a quick game with the missionaries on Christmas day while they were skyping with their parents.

 Ali wanted to a picture with all of her stuff.  So, she arranged it all and said, "Mom, will you take my picture?"  Sure thing.

Mining for crystals.  :)

We had a great year and are so grateful to our extended family for thinking of us too!