Enjoying our New Toys

The kids are so blessed to have so many loving relatives and friends that adore them.  Here they are enjoying some of their gifts from Christmas!

Now I ahve two drivers on my hands! Avery has learned how to drive Sage's old car!

Sage and Avery both love Avery's new kitchen and all her accesories!

Cinderelaa's castle

whack-a-mole. Hilarious!

Avery trying on Sages spiderman mask.

Spiderman Puzzle (I put together with no help from him)

Reading his new little bible (passed down by Daddy) to his new Mickey Mouse! 

THank you everyone who made this Christmas so special!

Christmas Day 2012!

In Pictures!

 

Santa gifts first!

 

And then opening from us, eachother, My brothers family and some other family members.

  So blessed!

 And then we headed to my parents house to celebrate even more!

Sage helped Tatum and Avery open some of their gifts.

pretending to sleep in her new tent from Mimi and Papa!

Playing with his remote control helecopter and car with Papa 

yes, she is still in her Cinderella costume

Sage ate his weight in peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate.  THanks Jeana!!

 His Bow and Arrow he got from Santa may be his favorite gift.  He plays with it all the time
He has a pretty good shot!

teaching me how to shoot.  He wanted to take a picture of me "trying to shoot like him"

Sage was very excited to see Mimi and Papas new truck for him to play with.  THis one stays at theri house,

 

Then our extended family came over!  Avery is obsessed with Carson, huggin ghime, kissing him, hitting him, head butting him. She's crazy around him.

Sophie, Avery and Carson

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO

JESUS

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

 

Christmas Eve 2012!

We always spend Christmas Eve with Ryan's parents and brother, Jacob, and his wife, Laurie.

We all headed to church at Faithbridge along with Lauries parents and LOVED their Christmas Eve service. 

We let Sage come to big church with us for the first time. He didn't do that great but stayed quiet for the most part. He got to take his first communion.  I didn't even realize it until we were next in line to take communion.  All of the sudden I was like, wow, this is a big deal.  He took the bread, dipped it and ate it.  THen I took him to the stairs with me to pray. (this was my first time to pray on the stairs too)   He was so cute, he sat down on the stairs facing the congregation and folded his hands, closed his eyes, and bowed his head.  I started to pray aloud to him and he repeated everything I said.  It was a special moment.  I wish I had a picture!!

 

2:00 service at Faithbridge!

Yummy cookies, thanks Nana!

 

Walking in Nanas shoes

 

As soon as he opened this gift he ran outside to cut down a tree. HA!

 

Opening gifts with Nana and Mommy

 

Loveing their new costumes!

 

Outisde to fly Sage's new helicopter before it getst to dark.

 Ready to blow out the lights and go to bed!

Santas all done!

Christmas Crafts!!

 

 

Mimi did this with Avery while I was subbing one day!

Helping me wrap!

The biggest craft ever- candy house!

 

My favorite one, the egg carton christmas tree. 

Painted before nap time then put stickers and hot glued little ornaments on.

 

This one was Christmas Eve day.  The kids were begging to open presents so I pulled our some stickers, tiny jingle bells and green craft foam.  Kept them busy for 20 minutes!

 

We had some crafts of our own

Here is Ryan and his dad workin gon Avery's kitchen.  Jean and I supervised!

 

 

THen Ryan and I worked together to put together Sage's jeep

 

 

 

 

All our fun crafts.  Some of these they created at school too.

Don't know what I would do without Pinterest!! :)