Bling Day at School

Christmas with the Mortensens!

We set aside Christmas Eve to enjoy the holiday with the Mortensens! We always have super fun with them!!!

Super fun foam swords to play with at the park!

Ready to create gingerbread houses!

The dad's relaxing!

Tyler and Maddy

Gunnar and Jack

T and Macee

(T is the M's little foster girl)

Jonny and Damon

Candlelight Dinner

Christmas caroling to grandparents

(singing to g-ma/pa Rowley)

And the elves left PJ's!!!

Christmas 2010

So... some may say I go overboard... but I don't care! I enjoy Christmas and I love to have an excuse to buy/make my kids gifts. Do I spoil them? On holidays, yes... in regular life, not really!

Christmas morning.

"Stockings!" This time we set out bags for Santa to fill. Really it was that I didn't get their new stocking made, so it just had to be that way! Santa even left Chuck and I a few goodies!

Traditional picture before opening presents!

Santa didn't disappoint!!!

New warm, flannel quilts!!! I couldn't have finished them without Chuck's help! When he suggested I stay the whole time at Disneyland with my g-ma, I knew the only way it would happen is if I had the quilts all sewn (I could clip them while I was there). So he stayed up really late one night with me (a sacrifice for Chuck... he LOVES his sleep) and helped me! And then he took the kids out the next day so I could get the last one put together.

Maddy's gifts

Macee's gifts

Tyler's gifts

The girls enjoying some of their gifts.

Tyler and Chuck playing a new game Tyler got.