Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was a really bad day for Lexi. She was in a lot of pain and having a hard time swallowing. I was running around the house trying to get ready for Christmas Day. Then.... I realized something: WHY?!?! Why am I killing my self and making everybody miserable trying to make it all picture perfect. So,... I quickly applied the brakes - over the course of a month, our guest list had gone from 9 to 2. I decided to try and enjoy it.

Instead of getting ALL dressed up in nice clothes (Lexi I KNOW didn't feel like it,.... we decided to dress "wacky"!! This kids really did enjoy that!

Lexi had on a blue shirt, tan velvet pants, 2 different socks, & crazy hair. Cooper had on a Rudolph light-up shirt, turtle swim trunks, "Round Rock Express" wristbands, and a shark hat. VERY funny!!

My fun socks!

Here is the last picture of the kids with their elves. Santa took the elves back to the North Pole.

Oh,... and Cricket has a Christmas dress!!




Here are the kids giving each other shugas! They were thanking each other for the gifts they exchanged. SUPER sweet kids!!

Cooper was VERY excited about his ticket to go see "Playhouse Disney Live"!! This Thursday he and I have a date: stay tuned!!

Lexi was REALLY excited to get a ticket to see the 3-D Hannah Montana movie of the concert in February. Concert tickets were nearly impossible to get. We were not very lucky!! So,.... Lexi and her friend, Courtney are going to the movie together!! Lexi is STILL excited!

Cooper seems to be amazed at his new car track! IF you ever get one of these, I would assemble it BEFOREHAND!! It took forever!!

I wrapped one of Lexi's gifts in 14 nesting boxes. Here she is annoyed that she keeps working SO hard, but keeps getting another box. A little cruel, but REALLY funny for me!!

It really paid off! When Lexi saw that she is going to get her ears pierced, she ran in her room, grabbed her pillow, and was flailing around! Pretty crazy, but only lasted for a short while - remember, she didn't feel that good! But, it was good to see her get real excited!

We are getting ready for Santa to come. The kids get together some cookies for Santa and apples for the reindeer. Not to sure what Cooper's doing, but it sure is cute!

Lexi sent the elves off with some portraits she had colored!

And,... the track finally got completed! The actual play time was not very long! Before we knew it, it was 10pm! We checked the GPS Santa tracker and Santa was already in Tennessee!!

So,.... we rushed to brush our teeth, get in our jammies, and off to bed!! Well,... except for mom! I still had a full night's of work ahead of me!!