Christmas....craziness.....fun

We had a great Christmas this year. We start off with Christmas Eve dinner at your house with all of my family and Brian's parents. The kids all got jammies after dinner and then Aunt Tawni reads a Christmas story.

All the kids got matching jammies, but since Isaac is the only boy he got Buzz Lightyear PJ's and thought it was pretty darn cool.

Miss Livy Locks.....

All the girls in their matching nightgowns that have their names on them!

All the Ray grandchildren.

My kiddos, and yes it does look like Isaac is a Mexican jumping bean...

Listening to Aunt Tawni read the Christmas story.

Christmas morning before the chaos arrived.

We did the stockings and then headed off to 9am church...then came back to do the rest of the presents.

In the afternoon we went to my dad's for Christmas dinner and more presents.

Trying out my new camera on my handsome boy.

The day after Christmas Liz and Steve arrived with their kiddos, we had a blast. We went swimming....

Anna joined us for the fun.

And....we got bunnies. So far they have been a lot of fun.
Leila with "Oreo"

Olivia with "Snowball"

Then on New Years we had a weenie roast.....

Claire stuffing a marshmallow in her mouth.

What a great ending to a great year. My wish for this next year is to be just a fun with a little less medical drama. :-)

Never a dull moment

Poor Brian has had a rough year when it comes to accidents. Less than two weeks before Christmas Brian blew out his achilles' and had to have surgery a week later. He is super bummed because it happened right before Christmas and because he will have a long (3 month) recovery......we love you babe, you still work hard even though you have to hop around.

Pre-surgery

In the recovery room....

Pre- Christmas Programs

Isaac's class had a little Christmas performance. It was so cute. He did a great job.

Typical Isaac, just loungin' around because he is tired (or maybe just lazy)

The kids sang at the Ward Christmas Breakfast and did a great job.

Santa came to visit and the kids did great...well expect for one....

Claire HATED it.....after this she was afraid of Santa for the rest of the month.

Ohh Piggy Piggy

Too cute not to post...Claire's hair is now long enough for piggy tails. I love them.

Christmas Tree Shopping

As always, Christmas Tree shopping is always great fun! Lizzie joined us and we got a winner within 3 minutes.

The Christmas tree lot had Santa's sleigh, reindeer, hot coco and a hot tub. True story. We only enjoyed the sleigh and reindeer though.

Shortly after Isaac touched the deers rack it bucked it's head pretty hard and just about gave Isaac a heart attack.

SoCal for Thanksgiving

We had so much fun at Rob and Tina's in Thousand Oaks for Thanksgiving.

The kids spent A LOT of time in the hot tub/ pool.

Brian is walking on water....teeeheehee

Liz and I took Olivia and Leila to the American Girl Doll Store. It was so fun.

We tried to get family pictures, pretty much impossible with three little ones.

We went to the beach and although the water was cold the kids had a blast.

Coming home...

Not sure who Claire is hiding from.