Christmas eve and morning

Christmas Eve we spent eating yummy Mexican food and visiting with family.  The kids were so excited for Santa to visit our house!!  They woke up early Christmas morning to find Santa had come, it was a magical morning.  Rhylan loved her talking bird, stick horse, How to Train Your Dragons 2, and a new Lego set.  Gracin loved his new Dragon Bike, blow dart gun, Planes 2 movie, and his magnet building set.  Hazel loved her doll house, Frozen microphone, and her kitty.

Story time

The kids love getting extra story time when Grammy C and Papa come to town.

Sundays

We had some fun with Rhylan's hair in December!  And Hazel even let me curl her hair for church!! 

Green Valley house

My parents came the weekend before Christmas.  We had lots of fun!  The first night we headed to this house I had heard about in Green Valley with an amazing display.  Yep it was pretty great!  You actually get out of your car and walk a round on a trail to see it all.  

Our real tree died!! After 2 years of bad luck with real trees, I decided that I wanted to get a really nice tree... so I did:) 

Fun mom

Sometimes mom needs to win!  So we had crazy hair day at our house!  Too bad Hazel still had green hair 5 days later... including a Sunday!  They thought I was the best.

Christmas preperations

working hard for the money

The kids wanted to earn some money, so I came up with this list.  They could choose what they wanted to do.  It maybe a new thing at our house.  I loved the help.  Hazel didn't earn any money but she didn't want to be left out of the new toy part.  I got her these Elsa shoes... she was so happy!

More Pumpkin Patches

We were in Pinetop for my brothers homecoming talk.  We spent a few hours with cousins, Grammy, Papa and Aunts and Uncle picking pumpkins. They all liked pushing the cart.  Then later Hazel and I went to a pumpkin patch here with my preschool. The kids loved designing and carving their own pumpkins this year.