Just a few Christmas pics

We had a wonderful Christmas with family and friends!  The kids soaked up all the love and toys they got as well as the later bedtimes and treats!  I didn't take very many pictures on Christmas.  In fact, I really didn't even pull it out except to snap some pics of the kids on Christmas morning.  Oh well, I guess there is always next year.  We hope you had a wonderful Christmas season with the ones you love as well!

Brynn admiring the tree

Evan checking out Brynn's dollhouse from Santa

 Opening presents

Brynn helping Evan with his Buzz Lightyear...that they fight over every day!

And then just a few pictures from outside earlier in the week!

Ponytails!

Goof ball!

Merry Christmas to all...

and to all a good night!  We hope you have a wonderful day filled with loved ones!

Merry Christmas!!

More Christmas fun!

Brynn with her first Gingerbread house!

I obviously helped, but she told me where she wanted everything.

Evan wearing a Santa hat and practicing his "Ho Ho's!"

Silent Night?!

A Santa picture with no crying kids?  How can that be?  To be fair, we can't give Santa too much credit because Evan was sleeping.  He passed out on my shoulder while we were waiting for Santa to finish lunch polish off his cookies and feed his reindeer!  I can 100% guarantee you that he would have been screaming his head off {much like Brynn last year} because when I tried to put him on Santa's lap on the train, little dude wasn't having it!

And could Brynn's smile be any more perfect?  And the necklace was all her doing.  And ended up being kinda perfect too, no?  She told him that she wanted a dollhouse and shoes again.  At least she is consistent!  Another Santa picture in the books...wonder what next years will look like?  They both look sooo big compared to last year

Brynn's first dance recital!

If you can't see the video above, click here.

Brynn had her first dance recital yesterday and she couldn't have done any better!  Oh my goodness, all the little snowgirls were so cute!  Our little munchkin was so excited to go on stage with her friends and Miss Karen.  In fact, when they came off the stage she said she wanted to do it one more time!  We were so proud of her, especially since two of the last three weeks she hasn't wanted to dance at dance class.

 She didn't want to be bothered with pictures, just wanted to dance around with her friends!

They were really cute and were dancing around the ballroom while the other performers songs were on.  Little dancing queens!  And of course, now that we have her "show" taped she wants to watch it all the time too!  Brynn loves her some Brynn!!!  :) 

Christmastime

We have been busy doing Christmasy things over here in the Crayon house!  I love the holidays and love them even more watching it through the kids eyes.  They get so excited over the simplest of things!  

We started watching Christmas movies the day after Thanksgiving!  And we have gotten plenty of uses out of our Christmas jammies!

We have gone out to look at all the Christmas lights around the neighborhood complete with blankets and hot chocolate with mini marshmallows!  And we have driven through the neighborhoods with mega lights!

We've made Christmas cookies...

watched them bake and of course enjoyed eating them!

We rode the North Pole Express where we got to ride the train to the North Pole to pick up Santa!

 The kids wore their jammies, enjoyed chocolate milk and Christmas tree cookies, sang Christmas carols and got a visit from the big man himself.

{And my camera battery died so I didn't get too many pictures.  Boo!}

 Once we got back we waited to see Santa and we got "snowed" on!

And Brynn loooved Santa this year!  She told him that she wanted a dollhouse, shoes with sparkles on them and pretty dresses!  She is such a girly girl!

{Evan didn't want to go near anywhere near Santa!}

Santa even sent Brynn her own Christmas video that she LOVES to watch!  She gets so excited when she sees Santa with her pictures!  That's what we have been up to the last few weeks!  Just soaking in all the Christmas we can before the holiday season is over!  Only one week until Christmas, are you ready?

{Brynn started getting her back right 2nd molar on Monday {her 20th tooth} and Evan started getting his back left 1st molar on Tuesday {his 7th}.  Lots of teething going on right now!}