Here comes the Christmas post! Now that the craziness has died down, I am going to type this up (even though I'm super exhausted) simply because if I keep putting it off you will not see our Christmas until perhaps March...or even next Christmas. I'm a procrastinator.
Anywho...Ryan had EVERY DAY OFF except Christmas Eve, which was a bummer. Mostly for him. It made it so I got a chance to make Cinnamon Rolls!
I made those on Wednesday morning and they turned out really great! Ryan chalks all of it up to the icing he made...to hear him talk you could put that icing on a piece of cardboard and it would be, "SO AMAZING! YOU CAN'T DENY HOW GOOD THAT FROSTING IS!" I like to think the rest of the cinnamon rolls were tasty too.On Christmas Eve I tried to get me and all the kids looking fabulous, followed by my apartment. The apartment didn't really get finished before nap time, but it was pretty good. While the kids were down, Ryan got home (yay!) so I got them up a little early and we packed everything up and headed to Orem.
We always go to Ryan's Uncle Tim's and eat food and wait for Santa Claus to knock on the door. This year was pretty exciting in that department now that Nick and Eric know exactly who Santa is.
Nicholas looked like he was going to explode with happiness when he sat on his lap and Eric just looked...dazed? 
At least he didn't cry like last year. Liam did not cry, just wriggled around trying to escape so he could finally try out the stairs or the dog food, or whatever else is a no no.We exchanged our gifts with Thayne, Sarah and Piper, Sarah made all the boys very cute hats, which
they were pretty excited about. As you can see, there were attempts at family pictures, and this is the best of what I got. We went to Ryan's parents after that and prepared for Christmas. We were all very tired, but made it through. We spent the night and at about 5:30 in the morning Christmas attacked! Yes...we were very very tired.
Allyson got a scooter!
The kids liked pushing buttons on it, more than about anything else. 
They got all sorts of stuff, but especially enjoyed the dogs that "poop" out candy.
Shortly after presents my camera decided to use up all the battery power and refused to turn on the rest of the day. So I don't have a lot of pics. 
They wore cute Christmas clothes though, so the next morning I put them back in them for a minute for pictures. 
They were pretty uncooperative but I got some really cute pictures anyway.
On Saturday we were just gonna hang out around the house, but Ryan's parents called and said they were coming up to go to the Gateway in SLC and invited us along.
I nearly always leap at the chance of getting me and the kids OUT of the house, so of course we went. 
It was COLD.
But I got to go to Barnes and Noble (where if alone I could probably spend a couple hours in). 
After the mall we went to Dee's, and it was really, really good.Of course after all that we had to have something go wrong.
1. The Honda ran out of gas in the parking lot (again).
2. Ryan's mom lost her phone somewhere and it cannot be found.
3. The book I bought at B&N appears to be hiding with her phone. I was reading it in the van. Nobody can remember bringing it in the house and we can't find it in the van at all. All I can figure is that we have a book thief. Yeah...someone who goes to the trouble to get into somebodies van and only take a book. An 8 dollar book.
Anyways, the holiday were good, the kids had a grand time, and hopefully next year me and Ryan can actually get something for one another :)
Merry Christmas! I hope everybody else had a great one!
Here is our Christmas morning :)
