Christmas 2014

The kids and I flew to Boise Thursday Dec 18th. Weston drove out on Christmas Eve. Before we left that day I went to Haylee's school twice for a singing program and then her class party later in the day.

Straight from school we left for the airport. Hunter had been waiting for this moment for the past month. He was soooooo excited to finally being going to his cousins house for christmas!

Lots of cookie making with cousins

A girls night out at the nutcracker

In the midst of all the christmas celebrations cousin Brandon celebrated a 4th birthday with a car themed birthday party. We played red light green light, pin lightening mcqueen on the race track and car races!

The entire wismer family was able to be together this year. Two parents, six kids, 5 spouses, 13 grandkids, and 3 on the way! We had full houses and the best times. Santa made an appearance to drop off some cousins presents for the cousin gift exchange.

Christmas eve dinner! The littles table

And the bigger littles. I missed the adult tables

The annual Christmas eve program! Haylee and Sadie did the cutest number to Rudolph. They worked on it all week. Even swinging on the rings was included in their skit.

My niece Lindy and I played a few songs on the clarinet and all four of my sisters and I sang away in a manger while my brother Steven accompanied us on the Piano.

Lots of cousins singing together and acting out the nativity story. Hunter was Joseph and Haylee was the angel holding up the star and bring the good news to the shepards

Christmas morning brought many smiles, and excitement and ended with a family room covered with presents!

Hunter took this picture of the tree and I thought it was so pretty!

One of my best presents was one from my very own Santa. He bought me a lot to build our brand new house on!!! So excited to see those walls go up!!

But the very best present of all this year, was throughout the entire Christmas season and our week in boise, was the little baby boy I felt moving inside me everyday! So so blessed and excited for him to come to our family in 2015.

What a wonderful and amazing Christmas season we had with family, and remembering our Savior Jesus Christ! So very thankful for his birth and blessings he gives to our family!!

December

Our December from my phone

Decorating our own stockings this year.

My kids don't like hot chocolate. Its sad really, so we enjoy nice cold chocolate milk in our christmas mugs instead. And lots of bubbles!

Making Christmas trees with all the cousins on a quick weekend trip to Boise we took.

Hunter's preschool program. Probably one of the cutest things I've ever seen. He sang all the songs and was a great lamb in one of them.

A fun Christmas story hr.

I keep texting Weston pictures of stuff I want for christmas. Hint, hint babe!

Lots of green and red play dough. They should make Christmas flavored kool aid so my play dough smells like the Christmas scents instead of lime.

Haylee's Christmas choir concert. She has had so much fun being in a choir and I loved watching her perform!!

Haylee named our elf Jack and Hunter named him buddy. So Jack/Buddy has been very silly this year. Haylee likes to call him a little rascal.

December!

We are in full swing Christmas mode. All what we have this year for decor is a tree and dollar store stockings. Today I noticed on our picture new testament scriptures that there is a picture of baby Jesus so we added that to our decor too and now it's complete! And it's fabulous. So much less stress. Of course I miss all my decorations but next year when we are moved into a home and have all of our stuff back we'll go crazy decorating again. This year it's so fun because Haylee cannot read enough. She reads everything so she is reading us the christmas story out of the scriptures every night. Brings such a sweet spirit into our home. And we took the kids to see the mall santa. Haylee tells me that the mall santa's are just helpers but not the real Santa. The real Santa is too busy. I told her well sometimes the real Santa has to be at the mall because the helpers are busy too. After we visited him in the mall we figured out that the real Santa is at our mall! And it was exciting!! He was totally the real deal. So so sweet with the kids and very Jolly. We went to a different mall a few days later and this one was for sure just a helper Haylee told me. I agreed with her 100%.

haylee is 7

I'm usually not this behind on blogging but Haylee's birthday celebration was a couple weeks ago and here's the pictures to show for it! She got spoiled at home in the morning, at school and at her party. Can't believe she is 7. It still seems hard to say. It's too old for me and I still think of her as a little 3 yr old nervous to go to preschool.