Christmas!

We visited Utah for Christmas this year.

We simply had a wonderful time and forgot about all our stress for a week.

Letters to Santa

Christmas Eve pajamas!  The kids seem to forget every year that I have them open one gift on Christmas Eve, and that it's ALWAYS pajamas.  Funny.

Parker will always come up with the weirdest poses for pictures!  What a cutie.

Look what Santa left us!  His elves found some really good deals on toys this year.  We shared Christmas morning with my mom and Karen.  They got to join in on the excitement.  Dear Karen still doesn't know.... :)

One of Cohen's top gifts this year was a simple cross bow.  It's had hours and hours of use.

Christmas mayhem

Christmas mayhem continued.  I just had to capture it.

Baylee's first Christmas.  She was so excited.... right?

Really, she could care less.  But, she's cute.

This was the one and only picture we could capture with everyone on Christmas day before many more meltdowns occurred.  Baylee was the first to melt.  I think some of the parents were next.

This is the first year we took the family to see the temple square lights.  It was freezing but we had a great time!

Baylee's poor face was so cold, but daddy kept everything else nice and warm.

We crashed Josh's good friend's (Rob) family Christmas Party.  They figured Josh was family anyway since they've known each other since they were 5.  Now both our kids are 5, and they played Mary and Joseph in the Nativity.  Oh, they were so cute!

It was actually quite the program.

No one prompted Cohen to pick up and rock the baby Jesus.  He just wanted to.  What a tender-hearted little man.