Christmas

The kids loved their advent calendars every morning.  Bridgette was in charge of finding everyone's number and passing out the chocolates.

We started off Christmas this year by Santa having an elf deliver the kids' big presents early since we were going to be in Utah for Christmas day.   The kids were so surprised and excited when they got up.  Penny got a pink scooter.

 Harrison a basketball hoop.

 And Bridgette a pink, sparkly princess bike.

 Testing out the new riding toys outside.

 We bought a new minivan!  Ahhh!  I can't believe we have finally succumbed to the pressure, but with 3 kids squeezed into our small car, it needed to happen.  We feel totally dorky but it is awesome!  Also, we are terrible at selfies.

We drove to St. George for Christmas.  The girls all got pedicures.  The salon let Bridgette and Penny soak their feet with us and have their toes painted.  They totally loved it.

 Bridgette hung out with Grandma.

 Christmas Eve we went bowling.  It was the first time for our kids and they loved it.

 Penny pushed her ball so slowly we were surprised it even made it down the lane.

 

Bridgette was very serious about it and got teary eyed when she realized she didn't win.  Her victory dances and cheers were so cute though.

"Mom take a picture of me in this chair".

 

It was fun to finally have cousins to play with!  All the kids before bed on Christmas Eve.

 We visited a cute Christmas Village done in someone's yard.  The kids loved all the little houses you could walk into.

Christmas morning was crazy.  Penny and Harrison were up first to unpack their stockings.

 I had to wake Bridgette up.  When I asked her if she wanted to be up because it was Christmas she said, "Yes, but I might fall back asleep."  Cute girl needs her sleep!

 Ball from his stocking.

 Harrison exploring cousin, Hadley's new cool toy.

 The girls both got a princess shirt, game and toy from Santa.

 Harrison got a car track and cars.  He was in heaven with all the car toys he got!

The kids got a stomp rocket from us and they loved it immediately.

 Of course they shot one on the roof within the first 10 minutes.

The kids got sunglasses in their stockings, but were way too silly trying to get a cute picture of everyone.  It was the first time they were all playing together just laughing and egging each other on.  Hard to get mad at that.

We had a wonderful time with the Moore family.  We ate lots of yummy food, played tons of games and the kids loved playing with Grandma and Grandpa.