Our Christmas

At the Christmas party with my dad's side of the family, my dad always plays "Santa" and gives the kids a present that my Aunt Tammy brings. Kinda silly but the kids love it!

On Christmas Eve we go to my parents house and act out the nativity, have a yummy dinner and open up our Christmas jammies. For the nativity Makayla was Mary, Evan was a Shepherd, Tyson was a Wise man, I was an innkeeper and Ryan was the donkey. After the nativity Makayla played Jingle Bells on the piano, she had been practicing it all month. She did a great job!

Evan got a a special "sleep drink and reindeer food" from Teacher Misty at preschool. So when we got home from my parents on Christmas Eve the kids were so excited to sprinkle the reindeer food on the snow in the front yard and drink their "sleep drink" (it was hot chocolate, a candy kiss, a marshmallow snowman and a candy cane). Makayla put the cookies on Santa's plate along with 8 carrots for the reindeer.

Christmas morning!!! Evan woke up at 3:30 am and wanted to go downstairs! I told him it was WAY to early and to go back to bed. It took him a while to go back to sleep. Then finally at 7:00 am Makayla and Evan woke up and we had to wake up Tyson. They were so excited!!! Tyson wasn't sure what to think, he was more excited to sit on the balloons and pop them!

On Christmas afternoon we went over to Clarke's to have our Christmas party with them. We brought our new sleds and went sleigh riding behind Ronda's four wheeler. The kids had a great time!

The day after Christmas we went to Hardware Ranch to see the elk. Tyson is absolutely obsessed with elk. Ryan got a email a while ago with elk on it and Tyson will sit and watch it over and over again. Ryan also has a picture of him holding a elk head on his phone and Tyson begs to see it. He loves them! So we were so excited to see his reaction when he saw the real live elk! He didn't get real excited, he just stared at them taking it all in. He kept saying "elk" and pointing at them and "poot" which means poop. There was a lot of poop and they just kept pooping! He also loved the horses that were pulling the wagons around. He loves animals which is not like Makayla and Evan. We all had a great time!