Christmas celebrations, Christmas Cookies, and Carverisms

We have been busy, busy, busy but enjoying every minute of this holiday season. I am taking this opportunity while we're stuck inside during another winter storm (Yeah, it's going to be a long winter!) to finally update. So hang on because here we go!



We celebrated Christmas with my brother Alan and his family this weekend. It is always great to get the cousins together and we always have such a good time watching them all play.



Carver and Ava played dress up in all of Ava's dresses :) and the little guys had fun following the big kids around.

Here are all of the kiddos riding on super Daddy! He is so amazing with all of the kids, they just love to climb all over him.

The whole gang. My sister in law Sara, niece Ava, brother Alan, nephew Connor, Me, Kayden, Carver, and Chris.

The kids. Getting them all to sit for a picture is getting more difficult everytime we get together, but they are just so cute it doesn't really matter!

Goofing around as usual!

So, besides our fun Christmas celebrations we have been keeping busy at home with lots of fun projects. Today it was Christmas cookies. The boys loved making them and then decorating them. I think eating them was their favorite part though. :)

And, just to give you a little chuckle I have to include a couple of Carverisms.....

We were at the mall last week and Carver saw Santa and wanted to say hi. Now, he had seen Santa at several different places but I figured it can't hurt and I'm so glad that he's not afraid of him so I don't really care. So up he went to sit on Santa's lap. Santa proceeds to ask him what he wants and Carver looks at him like he must be stupid and says, "I've already seen you 3 times!" I could not believe he said that! So, I told him that he just needs to be reminded so he went on to tell him what he wanted.

Then, today I went to drop Carver off at school and his teacher said, "Oh, we're so glad to see you." Chris has been dropping him off and picking him up a lot the last couple of weeks with the bad weather so I guess his teacher and her assistant had told Carver that they had missed seeing me and asked where I had been. And his response to them, "My mom jumped out a window." I seriously don't know where he gets this stuff! And he stuck with his story when they said, no she didn't, and teased him that maybe I did because he was driving me crazy.

These kiddos are sure keeping me on my toes but they are lots of fun! Carver has his Christmas program on Thursday, weather permitting, so I'll be sure to post some pictures from that when I can.

Hope you're enjoying the holidays as much as we are. Merry Christmas!!