Something………………….

Something you want, Something you need,

Something to wear, Something to read.

My good friend Tawny told me about this saying and we used it as a guideline for Christmas this year. I feel like every Christmas it’s hard to find a balance on what Santa gets the kids and this was a great way to do it. My older boys were saying that Mom, Dad, Grandma and Papa always get them lame gifts like clothes! What?! Actually it’s true, but this year that all changed but honestly I don’t think they even noticed who gave them what. I feel like my kids got a perfect amount of gifts and got fun stuff and stuff that was needed. I will defiantly be using this saying every year from here on out.

What a great Christmas season this was. It was my favorite by far. I’m pretty sure this was the last “magical” year of Santa for Jackson and Ayden so we soaked it up. They were so excited. We talked about it all the time and watching non-stop Christmas movies and just lived in the magic. After watching one movie the boys were up stairs and they were talking about if they believed in Santa and Jackson said “oh he’s real FOR SURE”, Ayden said “I only think he’s 50% real”. I love listening to their conversations, they crack me up!

Christmas Eve we had a wonderful ham dinner that Ryan make for us. We watched a Christmas movie and check where Santa was stopped at online. The boys love that! Christmas morning was soooooooooooo wonderful! All of my kids were so cute. Leah got a HUGE pixar art set with All the Toy Stories, Ratatouille and Finding Nemo, stickers, crayons, markers, stamps, paper. To watch her eyes pop out of her head was priceless. She kept screaming and stomping around with joy. Jackson and Ayden were ripping presents open not caring who’s was who’s and loving everything. Brody got a balance bike and kept yelling “for me mom”? over and over again. Jackson got a bathrobe and a shark tooth necklace and kept telling us that he feels like a “man” in his bathrobe, who knows where the kid got that from, Ryan doesn’t wear a robe. (side note: Pajama day is on Monday and he can hardly wait to wear his bathrobe to school!)

We got the game “Life” from my sister and my kids have been playing it non-stop. It’s great listening to there reasoning and already life experiences. Jackson wants to for sure marry a girl from “high circumstances” which we have no clue what that means, but it’s a big deal. We asked him what circumstances we are in and he said the middle, lol, but Ayden is low circumstances and will probably marry a girl from low circumstances. Where is this kid getting him info from?! Jackson also only wants 2 kids because he hates the babies and thinks that Ryan and I hate them too-uh oh!! Ayden wants 7 kids, so he makes up for our bad parenting.

What we really needed this year was a new camera, but the budget didn’t make that happen, so sorry you have to look at our crappy pics. Enjoy!

Checking on Santa before going to bed