Ghosts of Christmas Past

How is it already over? How did it all blur by?

Seriously baffled. We ate. We played. We did not sleep. Christmas time is the best.

Santa came and left lovelies under the tree. It made for two very happy ladies.

Santa's elves make a wicked Tinkerbell dress up.

Fat Macer loving Christmas time WHAT!? Jer and I in a picture together? Now that IS a Christmas miracle!
Me and the sweets
Don't you love them?
In the mass of red and festive monkeys are all the cousins! Trouble.

Hoover...the vacuum that is.

This little girl is crawling. Crawling in the kitchen. Crawling in the bathroom. Crawling into sissy's room. And oh, how she loves her new found freedom. She loves to explore every inch of our house and pick up any small unsuspecting objects off the floor and stick them straight away into her mouth. Ahhh, the vacuum stage. I think her new nick name should be Hoover.

Princess and the Frog

Claire and I went to Princess and the Frog on Saturday. A little date. She loved the big theater, the popcorn, the pink lemonade. She did not however love "the shadow man". She is used to Sleeping Beauty and Snow White so she was fine...but I thought he was kind of creepy.

Going on our first date. She had to wear her princess dress to see a princess movie.

We are super fun.

Peas?

I was singing some Christmas songs to Claire before she went to sleep and I happened to start out with Silent Night.

I finished the chorus..."Sleep in heavenly peace."

She looked at me all confused.

"Mom," she said, "we eat peas for dinner."

I then tried to explain that peas and peace were spelled different and had different meanings to a three year old.

Then, after my clarifying rambling, she said, "We still eat peas for dinner. And toast."

Peace and toast.

I don't know when we had that for dinner, but apparently it made an impression.

Peas out.

Sign of the times...

Sometimes motherhood makes me feel like a crazy person. Does it do that to you too? How is it you can go from wanting to implode because you are so frustrated to your heart melting at the sight of them? Seriously, crazy people do that.

Anyway.

These two babes do that to me. I will spare you the imploding pictures and just highlight the heart melting ones.

Couldn't you just eat them up? Kiss their faces off that is for sure.

Claire is in love with her nutcracker. It stems from watching the barbie version of the classic nutcracker tale. To her, it seems magical that her name is so close to Clara in the story.

Clara.

Claire.

Coinscidence? I think not. Well, more like she thinks not.

Last night she kissed her nutcracker goodnight and went to bed. Sort of.

5 minutes later...

"Mom, nutcracker needs a drink."

2 Minutes later...

"Dad, nutcracker is hungry."

I think that nutcracker is pretty demanding. Well, no crackable nuts at our house so nutcracker went to bed hungry. And finally so did Claire. But, oh isn't she the dang spanking cutest thing you've ever seen snuggling with her nutcracker? Yes. Yes, she is.


Let the imploding begin.

Lights Galore!

Who's the cutest family on temple square? Your looking at them! We had a fabulous adventure with the Fulks family and my mom and dad. It is always amazing to see all the lights and think of the hours put into creating such a magical experience for our chillins.Macy looks comfy doesn't she? Everyone was envious of our extra seat in the stroller. That is an idea for a money making adventure next year....strollering people around temple square in their own personal sleeping bags. Silly.

Do you want a free beanie?

Do you ever feel like you could do more to help others?

My sister has a way you can do that and get these amazing Christmas Grams in return.

Don't they look delightful?Oh, yes they do!
If you check out her blog and decide this is something you want to do, just let her know you saw it on my blog and the first five people that order will receive a free beanie or headband of their choice. Your cozy cranium will thank you later!

Merry Christmas! Share the love!

Just to remind you of the cuteness:

Remember this cute little number? You could have it...Or one of these? They come in adult sizes too!

Guns and Roses

...or Pie! Lots of creamy delicious pumpkin pie. Nothing puts me in the holiday spirit like gorging myself on good food.

Claire and Wes chased...and I am sure each of them broke something. I'm not admitting to anything Honey, I'm just saying it is possible.The boys had plenty of time to shoot. Don't they look serious? That on in the middle is seriously hot. Once again, just saying.

Yep, that one.Claire snagged Honey's sweater and thought herself very stylish.Then we hunted a Christmas tree with this snow bunny...Oh man, don't you want to eat them up they are so cute?
Apparently Macy and I weren't picture worthy this holiday. Maybe Christmas?