Jaxon and Kayden enjoying the night's entertainment.
Josh decided to tell everyone a story. He is one animated kid.
Kayden decided to reenact his favorite Wii game Zelda as the character Link. He is putting on his shield and preparing his sword.
Jaxon did a magic trick during the talent show. He threw a penny through a wall and it landed on the other side.
Josh then favored us with a few Christmas songs that he learned at school.
Kayden then read to us (in his own cute way) and showed us pictures of the Zelda walk through book. He carries it everywhere at Grandma White's house.
Finally Christmas morning arrived! Christmas landed on a Sunday this year so we decided to see what Santa brought us before church and then open presents after church. We told our boys we would be awake at 7:00. When 7:00 rolled around Christmas morning, our kids were all still snoozing away down in the basement. So Jeremy and I took showers and began getting ready for church. We finally had to go down and wake up the boys so they could see some Christmas before church. They are all set to go check out what Santa brought us in the above picture.
They had fun emptying their stockings and checking out the goods. Santa brought us a basketball hoop to put down in the basement.
Here are my handsome boys all decked out for church in their matching ties.
After church we opened presents. Josh thought for sure this present was a lump of coal. He was so funny about it--he was almost insulted. Instead it was a jar of bubblegum for his bubblegum machine that he had gotten for Christmas last year.
Jaxon opening presents.
McKay taking a peek at what is inside one of his presents. He got a cold weather sleeping bag for Christmas for his future scout camps.
Kayden was excited to get his own "iPod". (Really it is a LeapPad explorer.)
Kayden opening presents.
Jaxon so badly wanted to get the new Zelda Wii game this year. He was excited to get it. His little brothers were pretty excited too.
Kayden LOVED his new sword and shield (the cheapest present seems to be the present they love most).
Josh was decked out with BYU gear for Christmas this year. He got a new BYU basketball and some BYU basketball shorts. That boys loves those Cougars!
Josh opening a nice surprise. His gift was a new bike, put we couldn't fit it under the tree. So we wrapped up a box of fruit snacks with a note on it to go and look in the laundry room.
He was so excited about his bike. He was very specific about what kind of bike he wanted. He wanted one that had shocks on it just like his friend's and he was glad to see that it did.
Josh out taking his bike for a spin. (Note here that we have had ZERO snow this year. As much as I don't like to drive in the white stuff, it has been hard to have a cold winter with the snow lacking.)
They day after Christmas we went up to Soldier Hallow to do some snow tubing. The snow was lacking there as well, but they had plenty of the man made snow so we could still enjoy the tubing hill. In the above picture is Kellie and Brady (Jeremy's brother and his wife) along with Jaxon and his cousin Lachlan.
McKay and his cousin Marissa getting ready to take a ride down the hill.
Kayden and Jeremy taking a nice relaxing ride up the hill.
Josh playing in what little snow there was on the way up the hill. (See the mountain behind him has absolutely no snow.)
After tubing and lunch, we went back to Grandma Haacke's house to open more presents. I couldn't help but snap this picture. Kayden received a game for his LeapPad from his cousin Camron and therefore gave him a huge hug. Pretty darn cute.I hope your holiday season was just as wonderful and memorable as ours. Merry Christmas! (Just a couple of weeks late.)
I have heard many things about the bubblegum machine. Owen thinks it is great!
ReplyDeleteLoved all of these photos! It looks like you guys had a great Christmas.
ReplyDeleteVery cute pics indeed! Seems like 2 lucky little boys had an awesome Christmas!
ReplyDelete-Jackie @ Matching neckties