Christmas

This year we had a really fabulous christmas! We opted to stay home Christmas day and it was GREAT! No running around from house to house with tired over stimulated kids! It was nice to let the kids just play with their new toys all day. We instead invited people to come here and enjoy dinner with us. Nick, Tina, kaytee, Jerry & Glenna all came over and the kids were really excited to give them the gifts they bought them with my dad. I love to watch them show as much excitment in giving as they do in recieving. As far as recieving goes, I am pretty sure the kids got just about everything they wanted...besides the puppy Alyssa has been begging for! ryan got his PS3, a video camera, a bike, and more. Alyssa got a keyboard, DSi, Wii games and more. Chloe got a baby doll set, dollhouse, ball pit, and more. They got Alot of great things this year! JR and I got a laptop from my wonderful mom!!! LOVE IT! JR got me and Ipod touch that I am in looooove with. I got him tony hawk ride (not sure he likes it) We also got some gift cards.

Better than gifts was just the pure joy of watching my kids sooooo excited with anticipation! Ryan woke up at a little after 2 am and we werent even asleep yet. Alyssa was up at about 5 and we all got up. She was so excited and kept yelling "santa came!!!" It was adorable. We have all just been lounging around and not doing a whole lot of anything except for JR who is back to work. I really need to get back on track and get the house in order. I need to find a place for all this new stuff.

I am really looking forward to 2 more weeks of the kids being home from school...hopefully we can go do something fun.

Cheer Parade

So Alyssa is done with cheerleading and to finish it off they had a performance in the San Bernardino christmas parade. It was so cute and my little girl made me so proud. She doesnt really like cheerleading all that much but I made her finish out the class because her costume was expensive and I wasnt going to let it go to waste. Even tho she wasnt into it like I was hoping, she really gave it her all. I think she is just a natural performer in whatever she does. She was out there with the biggest smile on her face, yelling louder than anyone and proved that she had really learned her routine. I was PROUD!!!! We were all bummed that JR had to work but we kept him updated with lots of pictures :) It was a fun day and I am SO proud!!!