New Years EVE and day

New years was so fun this year. We celebrated the New Year with Mikes parents, Josh and Adrienne and their kids, and Ashley and Mitch, Neil and his friend and Todd. Then after midnight we put the kids to bed and headed to Peter and Julies house for a party.

Group Kid pic! So cute!

 

Then for New Years Day we always go over to Grandma Yoshis house for yummy New years FOOD!! Lots of Japanese stuff I dont eat but I do eat the lucky black beans....EVERY year. Gotta have good luck!

The gang

Ethan testing out the gyro bowl. He was so funny!

Cheers!

Christmas night

After all the chaos of the morning we get to end Christmas day at my Grandma Yoshis house for dinner. She makes dinner and we get to open even more presents. Grandma got us all jazz jackets this year and the people at Fanzz gave her tickets for everyone to go to the game. The people at fanzz know her because she comes in every year. 

 Here are some pics from the Jazz game that she got tickets to.

My Grandma and Thurl. She know him from when she worked at Pagoda and the Jazz players would all come eat there after games.

Christmas Morning

Christmas morning is also very busy...We wake up head over to my moms house and have some of my dads yummy pancakes for breakfast and open presents there. The kids got some pretty fun stuff. The girls got a tiny tramp that plays music and Ethan got a huge basketball hoop. SO fun. Oh and they also got these little guns that were probably the cheapest gifts but the kids were obsessed with them!

this is what I get when I say "SMILE" now a days. LOL

New pillows

The guns...

at one point we couldnt find Emma...she went into my moms bed to lay down. Guess she was tired. LOL

Bop it XT. Ethan wanted it so bad.

 

 

 

 

Then we came home to open our presents from Santa and Mikes parents bring their presents over too. And after we got have a beautiful meal at Mikes parents house.

Santa brought Ethan Spy net! He was so happy!

Bee Movie!! LOVE

This is the girls taking a nap after lunch at Mike's parents house. Tuckered out!

Christmas Eve

Sometimes I wish we didn't have SO much to do on Christmas eve but every year I always enjoy seeing family and friends. We started out at Marketstreet grill for lunch with Mikes parents and uncle Mitch. It was so fun. The kids were great and they even got a compliment on how well behaved they were when we left!!? What? My kids!? LOL Then home for a nap and then up to Aunt Kelly's house. It was great to see all of my Dads side of the family. Then we went over to my moms friend Roz's house. They have friends that come over to carol. I always love that. The kids got cranky...it was midnight...so we headed home. It was so busy but I love seeing everyone.

us at Marketstreet

Ethan and Grandpa at Marketstreet

The girls opening their presents at Aunt Kelly's

Haha....my boys

fam <3

Aunt Kelly getting ready to start passing out the presents

Ethan got Aqua sand. He was so excited!

Christmas fun

We went over to our dear friends the Sylvesters home for a little Christmas celebration. It was so fun to just have dinner, hang out. and let our kids play together. They always have so much fun. The kids even got to make a gingerbread manger. It was fun for the older kids....The twins were not that interested. LOL There was even a brown man acting at the pooper scooper behind the manger. Yeah it got kinda out of hand. LOL So funny. The kids also made ornaments.

The finished product!

ornaments

these are some cute aprons and hats that their girls got.

Somehow all the little kids ended up with no tops on. LOL

Visit with Santa

Last weekend was the ward Christmas party, and my Jean / Jewelry party on the same day so Mike took the kids over to visit with Santa. I stayed home and looked at cute jeans and jewelry! He said that Ethan pretty much just froze and didn't really talk much and the girls were pretty good. They just sat there and kept looking at Santa. We had hoped to get to the mall and have them sit on Santa's lap so I could take some pics but Mike was able to get a few.

The Littlest Christmas Tree

I just got back from watching my big boy in his first Preschool Christmas play. It was called The Littlest Christmas Tree. Ethan was the biggest tree. Its about three trees, two of them get picked by a family and the littlest one gets left alone. Then bunnies come and decorate it with berries and garland and it feels like a Christmas tree too!! Such a cute play and all of the kids did such a great job. I got some pic but they turned out kinda crappy. I am so proud of our little boy. He is getting too big too fast. He was so excited for the play and did such an awesome job!!

Ethan was so funny...The second we go there he ran right to where he was supposed to stand for the play.

The Three Christmas Trees.

Singing a song

His part of the play is over. :) Waiting patiently.

Ethan and his friend Nadia. <3