My Life as Wife, Mommy, & Child: Christmas in California

Our annual festivities started the first weekend in December when we trecked on down to Home Depot as a family and bought our Christmas tree. The girls had fun at the tree lot looking at the different types of trees and then helping to decorate the tree. Katelyn 'helped' with the lights and they both managed to get there hands on a bunch of ornaments. Thankfully, nothing was broken.

Here is a picture of the girls in front of our tree. So cute they are in their Christmas outfits.

I'm thinking that I need a star or angel for the top of the tree. It is year #6 and we still don't have a tree topper. It looks so sad. We opted for a short tree this year as Kyle insisted it would be so much easier to deal with and we were not going to be home on Christmas anyways. When we got it up & in the house, he said something to the effect of 'We should have gotten a bigger tree. . . .' Haha, oh well - live & learn.

This picture was taken the morning that Katelyn 'sang' with the Sunday School in front of church. I used quotes because in spite of the fact that she new almost every word to all the songs, she didn't sing a single word in church that morning. She did however lift her dress up so that we could see her belly button and sit down on the steps. This was a sharp contrast to the first time the Sunday School sang this year when she sang as loud as she could and tried to do all the motions, even when there were no motions for certain parts of the songs. We never know what to expect for our Missy Katelyn.

Because we were going out of town for Christmas, we opened our presents the Friday evening before Christmas. I made cinnamon caramel popcorn with pecans & white chocolate - the first time I have ever attempted anything like this. And let me just say - IT WAS SOOOOO GOOD! It was a great treat while we were opening presents.


Here is a link to the recipe - http://www.ourbestbites.com/2009/09/cinnamon-caramel-corn-with-pecans-white-chocolate-aka-cinnamon-bun-popcorn/ (it's a lot easier than it seems to make this)

The girls got a bunch of smaller presents. Their main gift was that Kyle made each of them a tent/fort. We usually make a large fort every time we get new books from the library, so I thought it would be great to have something we can just pop-up whenever we want. I think they will work great. They are, however, HUGE. I wasn't really thinking about where we would store them when we made two of them.

Opening gifts was a lot of fun this year as both of the girls were really excited about it. Katelyn kept making huge gasps every time a piece of wrapping paper was ripped off of a present and they were both helping each other open every present. Here are a bunch of pics from present opening night.