Christmas Take 4

Take 4 is all about our immediate family Christmas Celebrations.

We celebrated ‘Kole’ Christmas together @ Gma and Gpa Kole’s the weekend before Christmas.

 

Cousins opening their stockings

the madness and fun.

checking out their new stuff cute little fam

syd laying with her baby

relaxing with papa

helping mama

present opening teamwork

syd and her sleeping bag from uncle paul, aunt jen, kenz and dylan…she was obsessed to say the least.  :) she ended up sleeping in it at home for the next few days.

wrapping paper hat!

and grandpa taking off his ‘hat’ I LOVE both of their faces :)

sydee and aunt jen

baby dolls 

At our house, we put our cookies for santa and carrots for the reindeer.  Along with some milk to wash it down.  (syd has the same pjs on as last year i just noticed)

santa was busy

owen taking it all in on Christmas morning. he was so excited

he ran to get syd and brought her in to see

LOVE.

papa opening his socks!

syd’s goodies – its a donut shaped mirror

he loves his handsome shirt

looking at her new picture book bible

strong guy

proud of his darth vader mask!

We went to Gran’s house to celebrate Christmas later on Christmas morning…

its a tradition for the guys to get all handsome with slicked back hair and sweaters with collars. Owen of course has to join in his uncles :)

little elves

gran excited for her new holsters

domesticated gifts.  :)

busy with her new game

playing together with their new toys

uncle and owen outside trying out owen’s new nerf gun – it even whistles! 

Christmas Take 3 – Christmas Prep & Fun

 

These little goobers were so excited to get all the Christmas decorations up that they even let me take their pictures together and posed so cute :)  (more on the tree decorating process later in this post…)

but that was short lived…

no more pics…the socks and shoes came off… 

my little santa…for the past couple of years we’ve put the kids in this costume – its a size 18 months but we make it work…lol…

ringing the bell at walgreens…owen was such a trooper..it was COLD that night

my little camel (and his stare down) dressed up for the special children’s service – they read the Christmas story and let the kids help act it out…

Making crafts with cousins!  Grandma brought over all the supplies to do cool ornaments

  

putting up the tree and decorating it – the kids loved it!

talking to her strawberry shortcake ornament 

being a goof 

giving in to mama’s requests to smile nice :)

we love our fun little ornaments, quite the menagerie …this little biker boy is quite something…

scott’s little elfin friend from when he was 2

our ‘’first christmas’ ornament from 2004

putting the star on the top…

i love everything about this pic…scott reaching over to fix the star,owen reaching up to ‘touch the sky’ and syd standing back takign it all in while sipping her ‘milky’

tilting his head to try to make the star look straight

and of course syd needed a shot at getting that star on there just right…

these next pics are on the night of the kids’ first ‘Christmas program’ look how excited owen was… :)

my two little cuties

little syd in the front row…

singin her little heart out

each of the kids in owen’s class got to play someone from the Christmas story..owen was joseph and we got to hear in the weeks leading up to the program all about who was who – the kitties and kittens and shepherds,and mice they were all so sweet and excited!

owen standing up for his part in the program…so proud of himself! :)

the teachers and kiddos all worked so hard to prepare for the program and it was the most adorable thing ever.  the highlights for me were owen and his little buddy sitting in the back row prior to the program actually starting and shouting out ‘beef'!’ for no apparent reason! also, syd pulling her dress up and also picking her nose while on stage…yes. my kids are ‘those’ kids. and i wouldn’t have it any other way!!

we did also go visit santa at Home and Co as we have for the past couple years…owen was still a little apprehensive and syd was only ok with it if she sat on my lap…