Christmas Card 2009

Merry Christmas!

I hope everybody had a wonderful Christmas... here is our Christmas Card for those of you I don't have addresses for. If you are truly offended by not receiving one in the mail, give me your address and I can assure you will get one next year (if I do one).

Here is the Santa picture we got from our ward Christmas party. They had everything set up so nicely and took this picture for us...the Christmas miracle is that Easton and Ty are both looking at the camera and we even got a smile out of Easton! He was so happy about this we left and Easton kept saying, "where are Santa's reindeer? I can't find them anywhere!"

Christmas 2008

So, I haven't fallen off the face of the earth...just off the internet. I don't have internet at my house right now so the only time I can blog is when Ace brings his laptop home from work at night. Which, as you can see, doesn't happen very often!

We had a fun Christmas this year, although we couldn't go anywhere due to my "condition" Grandma Leelee flew down and spent Christmas with us! We had a lot of fun and Easton sure enjoyed being spoiled non-stop by Leelee!

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Santa came to visit on Christmas Eve

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Easton wasn't too sure what to think...

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He got many fabulous gifts that we are still trying to find room for!

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He loved his Elmo slippers...

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And finally got his Build-a-bear animals!

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We also went to the Gift of Lights

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Because Easton loves Christmas lights!

Funnest Preschool Week Ever!

So this last week has probably been my favorite week of preschool that I have ever done so I thought I would post about it! It was a lot of fun to be able to talk about Christmas --I wasn't allowed up at school so I took major advantage of it!

On Tuesday I did an entire day on the book, "The Polar Express"! It was a blast! I had all of the children come to school in their pajamas. Then they were given a ticket to board our polar express train (I just had the chairs lined up like a train)

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After everyone was aboard the train I used a book on CD to read the book (it had all of the train sound effects and voices so it kept the kids attention a lot better than me). When the story was over I "accidentally" bumped a chair and all the children discovered there was a silver bell under their chairs! We then sat and had Hot cocoa and chocolates just like in the book! Such a fun day!

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Thursday was our last day at preschool until January so we had our Christmas party! We read the book, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and made an ornament for the parents. Then, the best part of all...Santa came to our class and gave everyone a present! The kids went crazy when Santa got there and they were all so excited to get a present from the Big Guy himself!! You can click on this picture to see everyone with Santa...

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P.S--does Santa look a little familiar to anyone?? If he does, I will tell you that it took a WHOLE lot of persuasion and I was told that I wasn't allowed to take pictures...but honestly, who could resist this?!?!