Christmas Pleasures

Our Christmas was the best ever. The boys had so much fun with their new toys and it was so exciting to be able to spend it here in our new home and be able to have my parents come here instead of us going there. The pictures are not really in any order since I don't want to worry about sorting and moving them around. Here's just a sampling of the fun that we had. Aaron got some new tools and some fun family history resources. Aaron's mom made us the nicest denim quilt which we love. We don't have a nice one to use so that was very exciting, plus some fun pillows that boys love. I got lots of fun new stuff for my kitchen. Dishes, spice rack, and lots of other things. My mom made us some beautiful new towels for our bathrooms. And gave us a new bedding set that is gorgeous. The boys got way to many toys and had sooo much fun.

Here a picture of part of the mess after all the opening was done.
Parker and our new kitties!!! They are soo sweet. We love them, and even better, they love us!! They let the kids pick them up and hold them and don't even make a peep in protest. They love to cuddle and purr and I am so happy!! They are both boys. The white one is named Butter and the orange one is Pumpkin. They already had names so we decided to keep them since all Parker could think to call them was Christmas tree or lights.

Here is our upstairs family/play room, most the toys hide back in the corner :) We still want to do some painting and hang some blinds and window panels. But here's where we are so far. And thanks to lots of help from my mom and dad we are completely unpacked and organized already!! So we are ready for visitors any time!!
The kids bathroom with some cute towels my mom made with their names embroidered on them.

Here we all are in our new Christmas jammies :) This is my favorite tradition, opening new jammies on Christmas eve.

In our family we have always had our big dinner on Christmas eve so this year mom and dad came to our house and after dinner they let us open our gifts from them and we gave them theirs. Mom is wearing an apron that she made for Parker.

Daddy was soo nice to play cards with Parker He got a few different card games and had lots of fun playing them. I think here they are playing "Go Fish"

Our little workers with their new tools and tool bench.

KC playing on Parkers new trampoline.
Santa brought the boys new electric toothbrushes in their stockings and KC loves his! Must feel good on those sore gums.
Here they are laying on the pillows from Grandma Sue and Papa Chuck, and playing with the balls they gave them also. KC especially was excited about that, he loves little balls just right for his hand.

My bedroom. Isn't is pretty!! I plan to paint one, maybe more, of the walls pale green to match my quilt.

The towels. Gorgeous aren't they!! I told her she should start selling these.



So that's our Christmas, I am so grateful for the wonderful family I have and the opportunity we had to be together.I'm glad neither of us had jobs that we had to work over the holidays and that we had so much fun being together. I feel so blessed this year and don't know how life could get any better. To top it of this friday Aaron and I will celebrate our 5 year anniversary. He is the most wonderful husband in the world. He is so helpful and thoughtful all the time. He makes an effort to always make time for his family and let us know that we always come first to him. He is my very best friend and I never dreamed I would get so lucky. Thanks for being the man that you are and for always loving me. You are so wonderful. Our boys and I are so blessed to have you.