Evie's 4th Birthday Party

We had Evie's birthday party today at ICream Cafe.  The kids were allowed to go behind the counter and make ice cream and then pick all the toppings they wanted.  While some kids were making ice cream others were coloring ice cream pages.  Then we had pizza and fruit.  Once everyone was done, it was time to sing Happy Birthday to the birthday girl.  Evie was so excited to see all her friends and celebrate with them. She came home and opened all her gifts.  She got a lot of things she loves-dress ups, princesses legos(that she put together all but her self), cinderella shoes that she wore all day and to bed, carriage for Cinderella and lots of art projects.  She had a great day and we had so much fun celebrating her 4th bday.  We all love you Evie!  

Birthday Girl

Mom and Birthday Girl

Alina making ice cream

YUM

A group getting ready to make ice cream

Aiden hard at work

Jill managing the table

Friends

Enjoying her coloring

Fruit cups I made out of cones

My new boots from Tori:)

Her cinderella shoes from Vivi, Hudson and Bo.  She wore them all day

Treat bags

Snuggling at end of night

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

On Christmas Eve we headed to church then to Scott and Sara's for dinner.  Scott made his famous tenderloin again and the kids had fun running around.  After we ate, we headed home to get ready for Santa.  The kids put the reindeer food out on the deck, put the cookies and milk out along with the letters they had written to Santa.  They went right to bed since they knew they needed to sleep in order for Santa to come.  Josh was tracking Santa on his phone all night at dinner so the kids knew he was close:)  The next morning they were up at 7:15 and ready to open gifts.  Aiden wanted to read his letter right away.  Gifts were open in record time this year:)  They got lots of fun things from santa.  Aiden has not stopped playing with his cargo terminal.  That by far was/is his favorite gift.  He never got out of his PJ's all day:) Evie loved her Doc McStuffins dress up and her dolls.  They played all day and Eli and Jane stopped by to see all the gifts the kids got.  Once they left, we had Christmas dinner.  We are truly blessed and had such a wonderful day celebrating Jesus birthday.  God bless us all:)

Blessings

Doc Dress up

Cargo Terminal 

St Joe Christmas

We went to MI to celebrate with the family.  Friday night we had ham dinner and the kids painted cookies.  Sat morning the kids acted out the Christmas story-Aiden was the King, Eli-Joseph, Evie-Mary, Jane-Angel, Laney-sheep, Annie-sheep and Mateo was baby Jesus.  They did a great job.  Then the kids tore open all the gifts and had fun playing with all of them.  Then it was the adults turn to open gifts.  Sunday we went to church then had lunch.  When we got home from MI the kids were eager to make cookies for Santa.  So we made them and frosted them.  They did a great job:)  

Gigi and Evie

Evie and Jane-Silly

Show time

Gigi and Laney

My little sheep

Us

Kids

Frosting cookies