Christmas 2010!!

We had a fun Christmas this year. Not very many pictures but lots of fun!

We started off Christmas Eve making sugar cookies to take to Grandma and Grandpa's to decorate. After watching "A Christmas Story" and making and eating our yummy individual pizzas.

The kids were very happy to help cut out the cookies

Emma is a very smart girl and can figure almost anything out on her own. (she put a bakugon togeter all by herself at church today!)

Here she is looking through the star cookie cutter!
I was very excited for Christmas this year. More so than other years. I think it's because my kids are getting older, at least Ethan is, and he understands more about Santa and presents.
It was fun to see thier faces Christmas morning when they opened their gifts.
Here's our tree post-Santa!
(can you say spoiled?!?)
Ethan left Santa some of the cookies we made and a note.

(who knows why this picture is sideways? sorry)

For Patty

Mike's mom sent Emma an apron to wear while she helps me cook...or bake which I do more of :)

Here she is the first time I put it on her when we made our Christmas cookies.

Not so sure she liked it

She did warm up to it though!
Ethan and Emma also got really cute outfits for church and here they are...

My favorite shot of them!

Goofing off

Being SUPER silly

Emma

Ethan

As a side note--Emma gets to go to NURSERY next week!

Hooray!

For Sarah

Mike's sister, Sarah, had our family in the Herrington family rotations for gifts this year. She got some way cool stuff for Ethan and Emma.

Ethan loves the color changing cars that he got!

He can't wait to use them with his color changing track! (again)
Emma got the Fisher Price Zoo and can't get enough of it. It was the last present she opened and she hasn't stopped playing with it since!

Thanks Sarah!!

Look what I got!

This week we celebrated our 7 year anniversary! As an early Christmas present, Mike gave me a day at the spa! I got a facial, pediucure, ate lunch while getting my pedicure, and a manicure! After being pampered for over 3 hours, Mike took me to dinner at Los Hermanos, my favorite, and to see the new Narnia movie (very good by the way)! All while our kids were playing with Grandma and Grandpa and their cousins!

Here are my toes!

I love the sparklieness of my them!

I told Mike I will need to get a pedicure every other month, at least, from now on.

This is what he got me for my anniversary present.

I love it!

And this is where it hangs in our home!

Cheap entertainment

I'm done with my Christmas shopping and wrapping, but after last night and this morning, I'm not sure what I got the kids will be as cool as these...

They played last night and this morning in these boxes pretending they were cars! All those toys maybe a waste.

Here they are honking at eachother.

Our FHE this week!

After Mike made yummy empanadas and a short fhe, we headed to the Riverwoods to go on a FREE wagon ride through the shops.

The kids were excited to go and Emma even wanted to put her mittens on, she pulled them off the last time we put them on her.

Aren't they cute?

I think so!

We saw where Santa would be but Ruldoph wasn't feeling well so Santa was taking care of him.

Mike and the kids posed in front of the tree.

I wanted my turn too.
We ran into Zoltar and he gave Mike a fabulous fortune.

(I'm pretty sure it will come true this next year!)

We just had to stop by the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory for our FHE treat.

This is what Ethan got

3 marshmallows stacked and dipped in chocolate.

This is what Emma thought of it

Ethan was kind enough to share with her.

He's a GREAT big brother.

Growing too fast

Last year we had Ethan's picture taken and I love it!

Don't you?

So cute, sweet, and just a titch shy.

Last month Ethan went on a field trip to the photographer's studio and had his picture taken. I was sad to replace the above picture but when I held this one up next to it, I just had to replace his picture because he's grown so much in just a year.

He's older and bigger (lost all that baby look about him) and is toothless and you can tell from his expressions that he has come out of his shell, I credit that all to preschool!

I now love this picture as much as last year's and can't wait to see what next year's will look like!