Most Wonderful Time of the Year 2015

It's the most wonderful time of the year!  I love all the festivities and events that we get to attend during the Christmas season.  It started with Kayden's class reading a play:

 The group of kids that read the play with Kayden.

 Kayden was the narrator.

The next Christmas event was one I look forward to every year: the school sing-in.  This year did not disappoint!

Josh and the 5th grade getting ready to sing.  He is on the second row from the bottom in the middle--he looks thrilled, but really he had a good time singing for all the parents.

 The 5th grade sang Santa Got Stuck in the Chimney Again and Hot Cup of Cocoa.

Kayden sang I'm Getting Nothin' For Christmas and Jingle Bell Rock with the rest of the 2nd grade.  He is on the top row--the only one in green.  He prefers to stand out!

I was able to snap a picture of Kayden as he was leaving the stage.  His class was the last one to sing.

Once school was out, the cousins from Houston came and we spent a lot of time at Grandma's house having fun and celebrating Christmas.

The boys had a good time decorating and eating sugar cookies.  Josh especially paid close attention to detail as he added candy on top of the frosting.

Kayden enjoyed adding sprinkles the the sugar cookie he was decorating.

After much anticipating and waiting Christmas morning finally arrived!  We started a new tradition this year.  I assigned each child a wrapping paper and didn't tell them whose was whose.  There were no gift tags on presents this year.  Everyone was curious to know which presents were theirs!

Coming up the stairs ready to see what Santa had brought and to open presents.  I think they might be excited!  Grandma White made the boys BYU pajamas this year.

Christmas in the great room before all the chaos began.  We had Grandma White make the boys some new play cushions.  They stacked from the floor all the way up to the balcony!

 Opening presents.  I have no pictures of McKay opening presents this year.  He made a comment about how he knows it is a really good present if mom takes a picture of him opening it.  Therefore, I was too paranoid to bring out the camera when he was opening.  I didn't want to give anything away!

 McKay had Jaxon to buy for this year.  He spent a couple of hours putting layer after layer of wrapping paper on Jaxon's gift as a silly joke.  It was pretty funny to watch Jaxon open his present!

 Jeremy was curious to know what was in the big box for him under the tree.  He got a new BBQ smoker for Christmas.  Yum!

Jaxon, being the Spurs fan that he is, was pretty excited to get four tickets to the Spurs versus Jazz game in February.  Uncle Weston helped us secure tickets in box seats!

 Kayden LOVES baseball and loved receiving this BYU baseball jersey.

We had a wonderful Christmas morning!  We received about 18" of snow Christmas Eve night, so it took us a while to dig ourselves out so we could go and visit grandmas and grandpas.

We received the game Pie Face for Christmas and had a good time playing it at Grandma Haacke's house.  It was fun to watch their faces as they anticipated the pie in the face as well as their faces after they had pie on their face!

 

Even I joined in on the fun!

 Once the Idaho cousins came to town, we got to celebrate Christmas again.  The boys had fun opening presents from cousins and from Grandma and Grandpa Haacke.

The day after Christmas Jeremy took the boys skiing.  They had a really good time!

It was Kayden's first time skiing and he attended all day ski school.  Above he is getting a lift to the top of the hill (left).  Jeremy checked in on him during his lunch time.  Kayden had fun!
 

Josh has turned into quite the skier and has gotten better and better each year.  He loves to ski with his dad!

McKay, Marissa and Brady skiing together.

I stayed home from skiing and hung out with these two munchkins--Brady and Kellie's boys (I got to hang out with Kellie too).  Are they not the sweetest!?!  Mason is the newest addition to the White family.  He was born in November.  He and I hit it off right away.  I love to make him smile and hold him while he sleeps.  Taylor is their oldest little boy.  It took me two weeks to get him to talk to me, but once I did we had a good time together!

2015 was a wonderful Christmas season.  We wish you and yours the best and hope you had an equally wonderful holiday season!

#ASaviorIsBorn

This is my beautiful Sunday School class:

18 of the most beautiful girls (and two leaders) that you will ever see.

The Sunday before Christmas we talked about all the gifts the Savior has given to us, especially the ones that we learned about by studying the New Testament throughout the year.  They each filled in the blank on a paper that said, "He was born so I..."  We then decided we needed to give a gift to the Savior.  Each girl wrote a gift to the Savior and put it in an envelope.  Hopefully they will remember the gift they gave throughout the year.  I love these girls!