Christmas came early...pre-dawn hours

Santa delivered the much requested Skylanders

the cookies, carrots and chocolate milk were consumed

Stockings inspected

More presents opened

and then the playing began...Logan got his iPod fixed

Logan cleaned up his GeoTrax for Caden

and Shawn got his game cabinet

Then it was off to Nannie and Papas for more madness

Logan gave Wyatt a copy of one of his favorite books, The Monster at the End of the Book. It was a fun read.

T'was the night before Christmas

and Yoda Santa was getting ready for our festivities.

Cookies were decorated for Santa

Grandma, Grandpa and Kelly joined us for a special dinner and some Christmas cheer

the boys decorated Grandpa

Lots of Christmas stories were read

Good food was enjoyed

Presents were exchanged math theorems were explained

...and to all a good night!

Our Jurassic House Guest

This is quickly becoming Caden's favorite story...the day the lizard got into the house. He tells everyone who will listen. Cade spotted the lizard against the patio door and enthusiastically pointed it out to me. I responded with a shriek which then scared Caden...it was something out of a cheesy Shelley Long comedy. By the time I finally settled Caden down, the lizard ran to the basket of stuffed animals in the family room.

Luckily, he was petrified too, so I just had to take the basket outside and all was back to normal.

And Caden has a great story to tell over and over and over again.

"Take my picture!"

We sat down to put on shoes before leaving for preschool and I stopped to grab my camera in hopes to finally remember to get some pics of Caden's classmates to keep up with my room-mom duties. Caden saw the camera and said his usual, "Take my picture!" so we had an impromptu photo shoot.

and I forgot to take pics at school AGAIN!

LEGO - A Four Letter Word in my house

This is what my dining room table has looked like since Christmas...Logan received a toy store inventory of Legos and when asked what he wanted to buy with one of his gift cards he responded with MORE LEGOS...is there NO LIMIT??

Star Wars under the Stars

Shawn set up a screen ala white sheet in the backyard for a special backyard viewing of a family favorite, Star Wars. After a few minor technical difficulties, we let the force be with us

Waiting for it to get dark...shadow puppets passed the time

"The Dark Side"

We enjoyed some homemade ice cream too!

It was a GREAT evening, hopefully we'll have a lot more in the future!