With some super adorable kids.  Here they are holding their gifts for Jesus. Devon was a shepherd.   Carson was a Wise Man.  Dillon was Joseph.  I was Mary. Bailey was the angel and flew around the room with “swish swish swish” sounds for about 2 minutes. Then Bailey took over my role as Mary…

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-how my boys snuck down the road and tried to discreetly bring in some of the neighbor’s garbage cans in full daylight.  As in they were hiding behind 4” trees, bushes, and behind cars to get to them. -how my boys left some pretty poinsettia’s on an old couple’s doorstep, rang the doorbell, and ran….

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Dillon wasn’t feeling all that great on Christmas Eve morning unfortunately, so while he slept, the kids and I watched Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas in our bedroom until it was time to go to my sister’s house. We spent the afternoon at my sister’s house and had a delicious dinner followed by our traditional…

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My friend Sabra and I sew once a week together.  It’s always a fun time, and our kids normally really love it also.  Sabra went to leave and had just opened the closet door to check if her son was in there.  She was getting her stuff together and wondered, “Where did Jonas go?”  So…

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Bailey announcing she has a Christmas Tree chip.   Bailey’s new outfit: My sister did a 12 days of Christmas countdown where the kids got to open a craft every day until Christmas.  They loved it! She couldn’t quite get the candy off! What we gave for neighbor gifts this year.

  I took exactly 50 pictures for our Christmas card this year, and only 2 out of all of those had all 3 kids smiling and looking at me, not pulling faces, closing their eyes, scowling, etc :).  But I love them all of course!  We sure had fun.  I love these little trouble-makers of…

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First we watched the Grinch together and then Bailey went to bed while the boys slept under the tree.  I love this tradition!  We just started it last year but the kids were so excited to do it again!

It snowed last night, and it was the PERFECT snow for building a snowman.  I was going to make the dough for our sugar cookies, but quickly ended up outside helping them (which I didn’t think I’d want to do, but they needed help with that HEAVY snowman!).     The kids weren’t planning on…

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  Complete with Easter sprinkles! Bailey finally got to make some as well, since she was sleeping when the boys decorated theirs :).