Christmastime!

caleb's preschool put on a cute holiday musical filled with gingerbread kids, elves, snowpeople, reindeer and santa. caleb was an elf, and they sang lots of christmas favorites. the best part was during jingle bells when all the little "elves" shook their heads like mad to jingle the bells at the end of their hats! caleb loves to sing and did a great job. then afterwards we had a little cookie party and santa came. that was a disaster! cabes is totally afraid of santa! and he cried and wanted to leave and didn't even care if santa had a gift for him.

well, we missed out on quite a bit of picture taking for christmas due to battery shortages and camera weirdness, but we did get a few! we opened up presents from my parents on christmas eve, and haven got this excellent tin princess case with a little dora inside--her favorite!


toran loves animals of all kinds, and he was very excited to receive a new webkinz penguin to add to his growing collection. both the boys got new ones and all the big kids got their first "shining stars" pets. we now need another computer to keep up with all the feeding and tending of online-animals!
this picture seems to epitomize our family christmas this year. slow and lazy with a few great gifts and plenty of junky treats! we get to have sugary cereal! oh how we love golden grahams, and chocolate lucky charms, and our favorite cracklin' oat bran! and the pop tarts, yummy yum!
so tasty, but definitely only good to have all that high fructose corn syrup and crazy additives on just the one day! this was the first time in years that we have been all by ourself for the whole of christmas, and while we totally missed family, it was really nice to just hang out with our kids. actually i forgot for a moment that glenn and ciela and toran went to some of our friends for dinner, but the cabes and haven had been off and on sick so i did get to stay home all day. we did video chat with lots of fam, or atleast try for a few minutes! that was awesome!