Christmas Morning - Video

Christmas 2014

We had a wonderful Christmas this year! The kids truly got EVERYTHING the wanted and the grown-ups were pretty pleased with their haul as well. The kids slept much later than we expected so everyone was well rested and chipper on Christmas morning. We opened presents, had our traditional cinnamon roll breakfast and played with new toys. Jason made an outstanding beef wellington for dinner! He really out did himself. 

Some of our favorite gifts were:

Alia - All the Lego's, anything "Frozen" and the Doc Mobile

Max - his race track, leap pad and all the Lego's

Mommy - bike! and "mommy's day off"

Daddy - Kindle, Colts jersey

Action shot!

Max got an Olaf Snuggie

The floor could not be seen.

Jason was pretty excited about this gift from his brother :-)

The doc is in!

This picture cracks me up. The front room was just covered and Max got creative and made his own little space for putting together some Legos.

Preschool Christmas Choir

Max's preschool class combined with the pre-K class performed a few songs for the parents the week before winter break. Max was adorable but clearly had a little stage fright (he doesn't get that from me :-). We were very proud of him! Mommy, Daddy, Grammy and Alia all came to watch! Here are a few snippets of his performance.

Christmas Cookies

Another annual tradition at the Douglas house is the making of cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve. This year I wasn't able to help because of my shoulder/right arm being out of commission, but Alia insisted that I put on my apron anyway! 

We were so impressed with the kids decorating skills this year! They had some lovely creations.

A little preview of Christmas morning ... this was after Santa visited.

Birthday Party - Snowball Toss

Just had to share a "lightning round" of our snowball toss game. The kids had a blast with this one!

Birthday Girl is 6!

My "little jellybean" turned SIX years old last weekend. I'm still not sure how that is even possible! She requested a "small but unique" party at home with just her 3 closest friends (and her little brother). She wanted a Frozen party, but with the boys outnumbering the girls, we made it more of a snowman/winter/Frozen party. 

We started the day with family presents!

Then we went to Starbucks for birthday breakfast, as requested by the birthday girl.

Then she picked out just the right outfit. She wanted something Frozen-y but that she could jump around and play in. I think this little ensemble that she put together worked perfectly!

We had been decorating slowly throughout the week, but put the finishing touches on the party room that morning!

Once the guests arrived we started out by doing some art projects - snowflake ornaments and building styrofoam snowmen!

Next, we played a snowball toss game. The kids had lots of fun with this. The other activity we did was a Frozen themed scavenger hunt. I'm so bummed I didn't get that on video. The kids had a blast and were squealing and running from room to room. It was hilarious!

Then we let the kids decorate their own cupcakes before singing Happy Birthday and opening presents!

We concluded our day with the birthday girls favorite meal, macaroni and cheese and building one of her brand new Lego sets!

Silliness

What started as an attempt to get a "good" picture of my kids in front of the Christmas tree in their holiday pjs (for the sake of my calendar that I make every year) turned into a silly fest. Thought I would post some of these just to tickle your funny bone.