Christmas this year was so much fun and as you will read in the posted below my family did a lot of fun thing to start some new family traditions. My whole family was together and healthy and I feel like I couldn't have asked for more.
Kason loved his Tribot (a fancy robot) and his K'nex Roller coaster and Ferris Wheel.
Kenzie.. well read on for that experince.
I hope everyone had a Happy & Safe New Years.

I know that you all thought that come Christmas morning when Kenzie saw the jeep she would forget about the traumatizing experience with Santa. You were ALL WRONG!!
Kason came into the room around 7:00 and had already made the trip upstairs to make sure Santa had made it to our house. I had him go into the living room and nicely wake up his sister and let her know that Santa had come.
Ben ended up trying to get Kenzie to wake up and he said the fatal words "Santa came" this was the beginning of the end. Kenzie sat straight up and began to whale and scream. She was terrified!! I got the whole thing on tape if there are not believers. She probably screamed for a good 10 minutes before she calmed down and realized she was staring right at her Barbie Jeep.
The crying stopped and .........

I was unable to remove Kenzie for the Jeep for the rest of the day. It was a success. Thank heavens.

On Christmas Eve my Grandma Sparks gives all the Great Grandkids new pajamis. The kids love to get in their jamies and wait for Santa.
These are all the Great Grandkids short 4 kids.

This was a much easier task for my Grandma when there was only her 7 Grandchildren. Boy has our family grown.

My little Kenzie and my cousins little Skylie with their matching PJ's. Too CUTE! As you can see they have on their princess shoes to match there pajamas.

My dad is the greatest! When I was a little girl our family tradition was to make the trip up to Banida (a little town in Idaho) and stay the night Christmas Eve at my Great Grandma Gregersens house. This is where both my parents grew up. My uncle Miles has a farm and we would go his barn and see Joesph and Mary and little Baby Jesus. This was something I still remember today and when I think of my Christmas' I always remember taking a trip to the barn to see Baby Jesus.
This year my Dad wanted to recreate this for his Grandchildren. He went to alot of work and I was so happy to see that my kids loved it as much I did.
Thanks Dad for making memories for my Kids.

Kenzie taking a closer look at baby Jesus. This is so preious.

Kason finally got to try out his new snowmobile. It worked great on the roads and the sidewalks but, it was not tough enough to barrel through all the new powder. Kason was content to just ride it around the streets. (by the way I did make him put his helmet on to ride the snowmobile)

Can you believe all the SNOW we got hammered with on Christmas night?! I thought for sure I was going to be snowed in at Grandmas house. The next day after all the snow blowing and shoveling it made a perfect day to play in the snow. All the hills of snow were perfect for sledding. Kenzie is definitely my outside girl. She was frozen solid but, insisted on staying outside sledding.

I may have ruined Christmas for Kenzie...FOREVER

I will try to make this a short post but, this is a must read!
Ben and I thought we had it all together and on top of things when we had our entire Christmas done the day after Thanksgiving. How WRONG we were.
The first week of December I have the kids sit down and write their letter to Santa. Kason's letter went something like this.

Dear Santa
I would like and Ipod, a WII, and a laptop oh... and SNOW.

Nothing on this list was bought for him for Christmas.

Kenzie's asked Santa for a Jammin Jeep.....a what??
Ben and I struggled with this for at least a week before we figured out what she was trying to say. She wants a Barbie Jeep.

These Christmas lists are tall orders. Ben & and I tried to talk ourselfs into beliving that come Christmas morning that the kids would love and be so excited about the gifts we bought them that they would forget about their Christmas list.

For the next week or so all Kenzie talked about was her Jammin Jeep that Santa was going to bring her. When you would asked if there was anything else she would like, she would say "No. Just my Jammin Jeep!"

Long story short Ben and I decided to purchase the Barbie Jeep but, it was not an easy task. Apparently these Barbie Jeeps are a HOT item. I looked all over the internet and checked every store I could think of and on line these Jeeps were SOLD OUT! We were in Wal Mart last weekend and spotted the one and only Barbie Jeep in Wal Mart. We made the purchase and felt like we were good parents again. I did tell Ben that Kenzie better wake up Christmas morning and see the Jeep and I expect Cartwheels.

Friday, I was at the Mall with my mom helping her do some last minute shopping and I spotted Santa!. I asked Kenzie if she would like to sit on Santas lap and ask him to bring her the Barbie Jeep. Of course to no surprise she was terrified of Santa. She wouldn't even let me get within 10 feet of Santa. I said to her "You have to tell Santa that you want your Jeep or he won't bring it for you Christmas morning."

This is where I made the fatal mistake. I forced Kenzie to sit on Santas lap and she was forever traumatized. Kenzie now tells us that she does NOT want Santa to come to our house and she doesn't want her Jeep anymore. (I guess the cartwheels are out of the question now!)

Now we have tried to talk to her about Santa and I even tried to read some Christmas book to her to try to show her that Santa is a NICE person. Nothing so far has worked and she still is terrified that Santa will be coming to our house in a few days.

I may have ruined Christmas For Kenzie!!!

Once a month my friends and I get together and have a Girls night out. This has been every month for the past year or so. When we started it I didn't think it would be such a hit. I look forward to that time each month when I can get together with my best friends and catch up and just talk to each other.
This was our Christmas party and we went to CooperMill. It was so much fun and I had a great time.
Laura, Emily, Traci, Michelle, Julie and Melissa. Thanks so much for being such Great friends. I love that we can still get together and talk about our kids, husbands and our problems. I hope this tradition goes on for many years.
Merry Christmas

What Great friends I have. Julie, me and Melissa.

The first Snow day. Of Course my little Kenzie girl had to be out in the snow. She woke up and saw the snow and the first thing she said was "Now Dad can take me snowmobiling." It took quite awhile to convince her that there was not enough snow to snowmobile.
I let her get all dressed up in her snow gear and play in the little snow we had. By the time she was ready to come in the house the snow was melted.
I can't wait till she can go outside and build a snowman. She loves to be outside.

Okay just a quick post on my sons crazy teeth. As you can see he has lost a few teeth. It all started with one of his bottom teeth. One day I was talking to him and noticed that his perment tooth was coming in behind his baby tooth. I called the dentist and got him an appointment. The ended up having to pull the tooth because the baby tooth wasen't even the slightest bit loose. So that dentist trip Kason had two bottom teeth pulled. So I thought this was a little weird but, then thought nothing more about it.
Just a few weeks ago I notice Kasons front top right tooth was moving to the left. I tried to wiggle it and it wasen't loose. I waited a couple more days and I looked again. The tooth looked more to the left and it still was not loose. This time I saw yet again his perment tooth coming in and pushing the baby tooth out of the way. Mind you that the baby tooth is NOT loose. I called the dentist again and there was not an appointment until the first of the year.
The dentist suggested that we wiggle it daily and remind Kason to wiggle throughout the day. He thought for sure it was become loose and just fall out.
This was two weeks ago and the tooth is still fimly in place with the perment tooth making quite the apperance.
The dentist called a couple days ago and said they had a cancellation and would we like to take it? Of course I would!! This tooth is creepying me out. So this Monday Hopefully it will be OUT!

Creepy Right?

Christmas at my house starts on Thanksgiving day. Personally I have always thought this was a little early. This year we put up the tree the night before Thanksgiving, I have to admit this was partially my fault. Kenzie was so excited about the tree, she kept saying "I am so excited!" I thought it was so cute to see her little face so happy.
Ben put up the tree the night before but, I made them wait to decorate the tree until Thanksgiving day. Thanksgiving morning Kenzie woke up and immediately remembered that it was time to decorate the tree. Kason was still asleep so she ran to his room and yelled "Kason wake up we can decorate the tree, I am so excited!"
So the decorating began and to this day has not stopped. Kenzie likes to rearrange the bulbs and the candycanes on the tree. Everyday is a new look for the tree.
Our tree this year is really pretty and I love that my family did it together.

Sorry for the naked shot of Kenzie. When she is at home she loves to just run around in her undies.

All decorated. What a pretty Tree.

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