Christmas Day

Christmas Day started at about 9:30 in the morning for us. Surprisingly both kiddos slept in a little. Toddler T was beyond excited this year. He got everything that he asked Santa for and more.  His favorites were his new fire house, bob the builder hat, his baby vacuum and his train set.  Baby D is obsessed with her new baby doll too.  She keeps holding her, while kissing and hugging her.  It's kinda sweet!  Plus, it's the first girly toy that we now have in our house. 

We spend the rest of Christmas Day skyping with Elder Challis, eating good food, sleeping, playing and we all went to see the late night showing of Les Miserables.  Not a bad Christmas at all. It was great to have the Challis family with us to celebrate! 

Christmas Eve in Seattle

I can't believe that Christmas had already come and gone.  We spent Christmas Eve day up in Seattle. We started the day at the Space Needle.  This was our first time there since we moved up here and it was awesome!  Toddler T has been wanting to go for weeks and he really liked it.  You take a 41 second elevator ride to the top and then you have awesome views of all parts of the city. We then headed down to Pike's and shopped around the market, saw gum wall, enjoyed the views and had an awesome late lunch. 

Space santa was even at the top and T got to sit in his spaceship and talk with him.  He was pretty excited about it. 

Music Monday - Les Misérables - Clip - On My Own

On Christmas Day we went and saw Les Miserables.  It was an ok movie, it's better on stage.  I feel like they chose big names instead of big voices for some of the rolls, but I still liked it.  Here is a clip from On My Own.  The soundtrack is obviously good. Enjoy it!

And Happy New Year's! 

Church and Gingerbread Houses.

The kiddos looked so good in their Sunday Christmas best for church last week.  Baby D finally fits in this dress and we found an awesome blue blazer + bow tie for toddler T at Target just a few days before.   Later in the evening after Church we continued the tradition of making gingerbread houses and made a little competition out of it.  Toddler T's house won, of course!  What a fun time of year. 

Happy Birthday Wifey Dear

Last week we celebrated the wifey's birthday. She is now the same age I was when we got married (almost) 5 years ago.

We had a cake of donuts, her favorite, and then she opened a few presents from myself and the kiddos.  Later that evening, I went out with some of the guys in the ward to watch the BYU bowl game (it was an ugly game, yet we won!) and the wifey had a movie night with a bunch of her friends later that night.  We had celebrated the night before with going out to dinner and seeing the Fantasy Christmas Lights. 

Happy Birthday Wifey Dear! 

Who Hair Ugly Sweater Party

This year we had a fun little party with some new friends in our ward. All the ladies did their hair in the who-ville fashion and the guys wore ugly sweaters. It was great!! We has yummy desserts and hot cocoa and a white elephant gift exchange.  We got some pretty good/funny gifts.  (See pictures below).  This was a great replacement from the neck n nog party this year and I still got to bust out my sweaters and mugs! 

Good times. Tis the season.