Our Christmas

Okay so I'm just going to stick all of these on here!! (Can't ever seem to eliminate)... :) But we had a wonderful and fun Christmas this year! These guys just make everything a blast!!


They opened their traditional Christmas Eve present of pajamas the night before, so they could wear them to bed! (Timothy was of course more interested in the actual wrapping paper)... Very excited kids that night!

Christmas Morning!

Timothy was so enthralled with this orange from his stocking that morning - he took a few bites of the peel and then of course decided he wasn't that interested... :)

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They all got dinosaurs this year....

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And sunglasses...

More opening-present fun....

We were so excited to have our tons-of-fun Aunt Heidi here for Christmas morning this year!!!



Favorite Presents...















Timothy LOVED this cat almost more than Brielle did! He kept wanting to give it hugs all morning... :)














Well, we all probably got too much again as always -- always so very blessed! But it was a wonderful Christmas this year.... Always so sad when it's over!

(Samuel wanted to be certain his Star Wars guy up on the door knob was included in this picture! - He worked very hard to set his presents up for us!) :)

We sure love our cute and happy kids!! What would holidays be without these guys.... :)

Other Christmas Fun

Okay, so now I have a bunch of random December pictures that I'm just going to post here for fun.... (These are all BEFORE Christmas -- crazy picture-takers that we are!) :) But we had a very fun Christmas Break this year!

Making a Gingerbread House...










Making Christmas Cookies...




















Our fun Christmas Eve with Grandma & Grandpa Haws!

And Brielle lost her tooth on Christmas Eve!! Yay!! (We've been waiting for that one to come out for a long time now!) She had a very memorable Christmas this year, as Santa AND the Tooth Fairy both visited her on the same night! :)

Our Albuquerque Trip!

So Jared has to go back to Albuquerque every month for his Reserves Weekend, and for his December weekend, the kids and I were able to join him! We turned it into a fun little family trip, and we all had a blast! Heidi was also able to go with us, which allowed me to go with Jared to his Reserves Christmas party! It was tons of fun... :)



One of the best parts of the trip was that it snowed for us!! The kids had been asking all December if it was going to snow (which of course is never likely here in Arizona now), and the first morning we were there in Albuquerque, it snowed just for us! It was perfect because the rest of the days we were there, the weather was nice and a lot warmer, letting us have that one fun day of playing in the snow, but also making it possible to play outside for the rest of the days without worrying about the troubles of snow the whole time! :)
This was Timothy's first real experience with snow... He was very intrigued! :)

These kids have an absolute blast with their awesome Aunt Heidi! It's so much fun having her around!! :)

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One of the days we were there, Heidi and I took the kids on a fun little walk, and we were having a little too much fun doing picture shoots! They found this cute little gazebo to play on -- which they decided was their "boat", and that was definitely a fun little memory from the trip.... :)

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Also, while we were there, we decided to do our own little nativity with them (since it was the Sunday before Christmas), and they loved that! (The bottle was the only way to get our little baby Jesus to stay put! And Colette way up high is supposed to be the angel!) :)

We got to stay in the temporary lodging there on the base, which is pretty much like a furnished little house, and the kids call it the "fun hotel"! They remembered it from when we stayed there during our move back in May.... Lots of fun memories! :)