GRANDKIDS & THE MALL SANTA
Each year my mom likes to get pictures with Santa. when we where young we would get dressed up and went somewhere where Santa was for pictures and now since the youngest in our family is now 13 my mom had moved on to grandkids. This is the third year of pictures of grandkids with Santa and probably the most difficult due to the time we went(kids just waking up) so needless to say we did no get a good picture but it's memories!
HAFEN FAMILY PICTURES
My mom wanted to get so family pictures taken since it is rare that everyone is together at one time and it worked out this particular weekend that everyone would be in town so we headed to Aliante Park and Stephen Salazar took a gazillion pictures, of course these are not by him the are from my own camera after we took family pictures.
LINCOLN'S E.R. TRIP
Poor Lincoln, He is too adventurous for his own good. We came down to Vegas for our ward temple night and guess what we didn't get to go because we had to take this little monster to the ER for stitches because he like to climb on the kid chair at the kid table and this time the chair tipped and he cut the inside of his lip open. Luckily Darrin was working at Valley so we didn't have to wait all night. poor little guy.
Boulder City's Christmas Parade
This Year besides her own craft show, art in the park, and a few other home craft shows, my mom decided to do the doodle bug craft bazaar and after it was over there was a Christmas parade that I swear was an hour and a half long, but the kids enjoyed it.
Our Attempt @ A GINGERBREAD HOUSE
This year I decided to try making a gingerbread house and in our(mine and my kids) haste to make the house we didn't read the instructions, thus we didn't wait long enough to decoration, therefore our gingerbread house began falling apart before we were done decorating. So we made, decorated, and ate a gingerbread house all in one night.
Before
After
After the sugar Rush
Lincoln's 1ST HAIR CUT
I guess when your son is starting to look like your daughter, it is time to cut the hair. Let me tell you I still have mixed feelings, I loved his hair long, but he looks cute with it short. I guess it is a good thing Hair grow back.
Bye Bye Hair
SO CUTE
WARD'S CHRISTMAS PARTY
This year our ward had a really good Christmas party and since we are on the activity committee our sisters came down to help with our kids. Ethan also was the shepard in our Christmas Program, and of course a party would not be complete without a visit from Santa.
HAFEN FAMILY FUN NIGHT
This year the Hafen family all got together, ate yummy soups, caroled to some neighbors, looked at the awesome lights down on Judson, and had a family talent show. which ended with the grandkids Nativity. So Cute!
SANTA @ TOWN SQUARE
The Next Day Me Matt & the kids went out to town square to get our "offical" Santa Picture. Matt was so good getting our kids to smile that he got offered a job to make all the kids smile for the camera(funny) We had a really fun day of shopping and being with our family.
Christmas Sunday Crafts
Just a couple of things I tried this year, Reindeer candy canes for the kids classes and Raegans Hair bows. Not to bad for a first timer.
Christmas Sunday ALL DRESSED UP
So Cute I love Holiday dress clothes. Of course the only picture I could get of all 3 is where they are crying.(Gotta love 11am church-Nap Time for all)
THE BONE'S CHRISTMAS PARTY
GRANDMA SUGAR'S FAMILY CHRISTMAS PARTY(AKA The Herdmans)
Monday before Christmas my mom had all over her side of the family over for a Christmas Party. We had fun eating delicious Mexican Food and of course Santa came. And this Santa was so nice and brought presents for all the kids. Of course we played the always fun white elephant gift exchange.
GRANDMA HONEY'S CHRISTMAS PARTY
Grandma Honey Christmas Party's are always fun and she is always coming up with fun games to play. If you take a close look at the pictures we are all wearing name tags with our "Christmas" Name on it and for the entire night you have to use your Christmas name and if you get caught calling someone by their given name you get a mark. The one with the lest marks at the end of the party wins. Then we played a snowman game, grandma honey made stretching snowman costumes and the object of the game was to get the most blown up balloons in your snowman. And the last and most entertaining game(besides the white elephant game) was the reindeer game. We were divided into teams and give balloons. We had to blow up the balloons stuff 5 balloons in each leg of a pair of nylons then one person from our team had to put it on their head and sing Jingle Bells. First one to finish singing wins. It was really fun and when you look at the picture you will see that it started off as the game and then ended in laughs as Matt and Austin get creative with the nylons.
CHRISTMAS EVE @ GRANDMA HAFEN"S HOUSE
Every Year my dad's family gets toghter at Grandma Hafen House to have Christmas Eve Dinner and wathc grandma & grandpa Hafen open their gift. This year Grandma Hafen wanted me to have the Great Grandkids do the nativity like they did at my moms house to bring the Christmas Spirit. I gotta tell you as a kid I always hated dressing up for the nativity year after year but as a mom, seeing my kids up there portraying the birth of our Savior I can understand why our moms made us do that every year. It was amazing and spiritual yet still was so cute.
Our Wiseman
CHRISTMAS MORNING
Christmas Mornings our always fun and even better when kids are at that stage where they are so excited about everything. Thankfully our kids were exhausted from all the parties and slept in until 9(amazing becuase they are usually up by 7 if not earlier) So that was a nice gift to us. After all the presents were unwrapped we ate breakfast I finished up some binding on the quilt I made and we headed up to St George for Christmas Dinner with Bone's. It was nice and we had a wonderful Christmas. I could not have ask for any thing more.
Gotta love kids who love everything and can be excited even when it is clothes(of course they got more than just clothes)
