Christmas!!!!

The Holidays are always busy for us! We ping-pong back and forth between family activities cause- heaven forbid we miss anything!! We want to catch it all!! So Christmas Eve evening starts with a visit from Santa. He is always so nice to stop in the town of Hinckley amidst his travels that night....

Sister did not want a thing to do with him!!

We then venture into Grandma Joyce's for the annual Christmas Eve Moody get-together! Good food- good company.

(Shayda Mae and Dylan- loving siblings)

Dylan thinks Grandpa Rick is awesome- which he is! 

We then ventured back out to Hinckley to spend the night and wait for Santa to come....

Boxes are so much funner than the actual presents!

After a TON of good food and fun....we headed back to Cedar- Santa knew that the little Cobalt wouldn't be able to hold what Hayden wanted for Christmas; so he left it in Cedar at our house.

She loves her little kitchen.....she is quite the little homemaker!

We love Christmas and the traditions that it brings....we are so very grateful for our Savior and for the sacrifices he has made for us. We love the opportunity to celebrate his birth and cannot wait for the years to come!

Happy happy New Years everyone!!

It's the most wonderful time of the year.

I tried to do a cute little photo shoot with this little setup..........note to self: when you have a 20 month old......wait until you have help!

The little diva did not think it was as fun as mom thought it would be....

Boring.........

Finally a decent picture!!!

A week or so ago.... we went to get our Christmas Tree!! I took my camera and as I was snapping away I realized that I had left my SD card at home and my camera has no internal memory.....so I didn't get the cute pictures of Millie eating it in the snow and her face COVERED in the 'white stuff.' She did not think it was funny! So when we got back to the truck.... I busted out the phone to snap a few pics.

For FHE that next Monday we got to decorating!!!

And the stockings were hung by the 'plant shelf'' with care........because toddler hands would have had those pulled down in a heart beat had they actually been on our pretend mantle!

Someone was a menace during our decorating process so her dad put her in 'time-out'.......I bet ya can't guess how long that lasted!

And.....ta da.... our little tree! It turned out better than we thought it would because we had to hurry to get it cause I was working that night.

On a school note...... Colby and I are both done with our classes for a couple weeks and we ended up doing better than we thought we would this semester! We are enjoying some time off watching movies at night when we put the little one to bed instead of doing homework!!