Christmas Day 2011

We celebrated Christmas on Christmas eve morning since everyone had to travel on Christmas day. Here are the pics from our fun day!
Kids getting ready to get their stockings:

Reading the Luke 2 Christmas story:

Allie & her stash!

Zachary LOVES these slim-fitting dry fit athletic shirts. He was THRILLED!!

Allie got a new gymnastics leotard AND a super cute new apron, both of which she put on immediately after she opened them!

Zachary & his stash:

Mimi had a very yummy special Christmas lunch for us.

Christmas at Mimi & Grandad's

We are having lots of fun in Arizona at Mimi & Grandad's house. Here's the first batch of pictures:

Allie was helping Mimi with lots of cooking & baking. She loves to help in the kitchen.

Mimi has these new super cool Marshmallow Blow Guns. You stick a marshmallow (or 3 or 10 marshmallows!) in the piping and blow. Zac & Todd were shooting all over the place!

(Another misplaced photo, thanks to Blogspot!)

Friday we went to the Phoenix Zoo!! Super fun! Here's Allie with the map, telling us that we have to turn in 45 minutes. Ha!

We got to feed the giraffes, which was sooo cool!

And ride a camel, which was even cooler!!

Aunt Meredith got the kids these super cute winter hats. Allie wore hers to the zoo. Cutie!

When the sun went down, the zoo re-opened for a special holiday event called "Zoolights" which was a walk-thru beautiful Christmas-lights experience! It was really pretty and well done.

Christmas with Grammy & Grandpa!

We had Christmas with Grammy & Grandpa yesterday! So fun!

This is Zac's face as he figured out the awesome noises that the tanker makes!

This is Allie's face as she opened her new cowboy boots!! This is Grammy's new annual tradition for the kids each Christmas. They LOVE them (obviously!)

Allie loved this dinner plate set from Aunt Shell. So cute!!

Zac loves to color, so this will be awesome on the plane trip to Arizona this week.

Zachary got this awesome handmade Native American bow & arrow from Colorado. He's now better at using it than I am!

Allie got some Polly Pockets, which she loves!!

Setting up a racetrack with Grandpa. Unfortunately this racetrack started smoking, which it's not supposed to do...!

Allie with some fancy jewelry & lots of purple clothes, which she loves!

Santa Visit

OK, I used to be able to load these in a specific order, but apparently can't anymore. So, the bottom one is supposed to be first because it's Allie patiently waiting her turn. So cute!! Oh well, here's the mixed-up version of the Santa post!

We took the kids to see Santa on Saturday. They were sweet about it. They wanted to know where his elves were! Ha! So funny.

Christmas Parties

The kids had their school Christmas parties this week. We had a lot of fun!

(Dear Blogspot, why are you no longer loading my pictures in the order I chose?!)