Meghan Cut Her Hair

Today Meghan was in the bathroom (I thought she was going) and she called me for help. When I went in there the first thing I noticed was she had bangs!! She took several snips with the scissors to her hair and even threw the cut hair in the garbage. She looked in the mirror and said "I look cute". I was thinking "yeah if you could only see the back. She basically had a mullett back there. I called my dear friend Hannah and asked if she could help me fix it and here is the results. I didn't take a before picture because I didn't want Meghan thinking

Utah

The day after Christmas we left our house around 5:30 a.m. to go to Utah with Nana, Papa and B.J., Kelly, Ace, Jake, Josh, Jace and Caden and Bobby and Liz. We caravaned in three white jeeps and one white van. We had a great trip in. The weather was really good and we were all safe. We enjoyed playing in the snow, dinner at Tucano's (Brazilian) for Ace's birthday, Lunch at The Italian Place (sandwich shop) and wonderful Family Dinner at Grandma Green's, Nertz and visiting with family. It was a great trip. We came home on New Years' Eve.

Christmas Evening at the Elmers'

We went over to Grandma and Grandpa Elmers' house Christmas evening. We have a tradition of having finger foods that everyone brings and also Christmas punch which is a must. A few must have foods are chicken wings, toquitos, and pot stickers. We always have those. We have a ton of stuff. We opened presents and visited and just had fun. There are a ton of us at mom and dad's.

Christmas Morning at Nana and Papa's

At 10 in the morning we went over to the Greens'. Nana and Papa had us over and Nana made us a yummy brunch and we opened gifts and played video games. We played the gift exchange game with everyone and that was fun too.

Christmas Morning-Our House

Lennon came in at 3:00 a.m. and informed us that Santa came. We had discussed the night before that we were not getting up until 6 (according to mom) or 5 (according to dad) and since we did not agree then Lennon assumed that 3 a.m. would be fine. We had him climb in bed with us and he asked every 15 minutes if we could get up know even though we kept telling him we're not getting up until 5 and to go back to sleep. Around 4:15 he went and woke up the girls and then he proceded to bring in gifts to our room and tell us what the tag said. We finally gave in (since we weren't sleeping anyways) and got up at 4:30.

Christmas Eve with the Constantines'

We spent Christmas Eve at Grandma Shirley and Grandpa Bill's. We had a great time. I forgot my camera at home so no pictures. We had baked potatoes for dinner and enjoyed visiting. We play that gift exchange game which was fun. We ended up with a Webkinz and a Christmas bowl with a Santa spreader knife that Meghan loved and carried around with her the rest of the night. Grandma and Grandpa got the kids all Baskin Robins gift cards and all the guys got fishing licenses and the gals got these darling aprons with oven mits that Grandma made for us. It was a lovely evening.
Meghan loves to hold Kelly and Ace's baby Caden and on Christmas Eve that was no different. While Kelly was gone feeding the baby Meghan said to me "Mom, tell me when that girl with the baby comes back ok" it was so funny.

Christmas Eve Traditions

On Christmas Eve morning I make breakfast. In the past we were leaving our home on Christmas morning so early that I didn't have time to do it on Christmas morning so I started doing it the morning of Christmas Eve. I enjoy doing it on Christmas Eve so I can enjoy Christmas morning too and not have to make breakfast and miss out watching the kids enjoy their presents. I make enough Christmas Eve morning so we can have leftovers on Christmas morning.

I think it is cool now that the kids are getting older they remember things. Just before Christmas Lennon said that he couldn't wait until Christmas Eve because we have our Christmas Eve breakfast. I was excited that he remembered that. I asked him what we should have and he said "french toast, chocolate chip pancakes, bacon, sausage, hot chocolate with whipped cream and sprinkles" that is basically what we had but I added orange juice and we had some egg nog so I put that out too.

Also on Christmas Eve we let the kids open a present from Mom and Dad it is most always clothes. They still couldn't wait. I had them out in the morning and they kept asking if they could open their present and they opened them early afternoon. They all got pajamas. Meghan got Tinkerbell pjs, Abby got Hannah Montana and Lennon got some Wii pajama pants. They were cute.