Life at the Lyman's: Christmas Festivities

Holy pictures over load. I just lumped all the Christmas activities that happened over the week into one post. So be prepared, I gave you warning stop now if you've seen enough of my kids.

Here we go. We had to make our cookies for Santa. That was hilarious to watch them all try to roll out their own dough because they insisted they could do it themselves of course. We finally made some progress once they allowed Mitch and I to give a helping hand. We waited until Monday morning to decorate them. One activity per day is enough and clean up. I think Santa is used to having a tiny bit of cookie along with his mounds of icing on his cookies. They loved the sprinkles as well WOW!!! Luckily we had plenty of sprinkles because we went through a lot of them.

The kids even got some snow while Daddy was already off work. Thank goodness or they would have been begging me to take them out, which would have been hard to accomplish with Parker. We got to stay inside and make hot chocolate for them when they were finished.

Christmas Eve we went to my parents that morning to celebrate with them. We spent most of the day there and opened gifts and enjoyed a late lunch. We enjoyed our Christmas Eve service at church. I always love listening to our good friend and Pastor, Steve give wonderful messages and that night was no acceptation. We headed to my grandparents and celebrated with my Dad's side of the family once church was out. The kids did so well considering they had such a long day and Parker was the only one the napped. One of our family traditions is getting new p.j's on Christmas Eve to wear before Santa comes. So they were all nice and cozy and dressed for bed before we left. After some good family fun we headed home. All 3 boys passed out in the car after being on the road for 2 minutes. Payton stayed up and was able to put out reindeer food, pick out Santa's cookies and milk.

Christmas morning seeing the kids so excited is one of the greatest joys of being a parent. I don't think anyone was disappointed. Payton was the only one that actually asked Santa for anything and she was so sure he would bring her a hula hop, and amazingly he did. Cooper and Cohen each got a dump truck and Parker got an animal stacker. They played with their new toys and then Mitch's family came over late morning and we had brunch and then opened gifts with them. We are so blessed and the kids are lucky to have such a great Aunt and Uncle. They even had the boys birthday present since they won't be in town for their party. We played games later in the afternoon during naptime.

We had a great Christmas!! It's so hard to believe it's all over and the new year is around the corner. Time goes by so fast it's crazy. We loved spending good time with family and enjoyed having Mitch have a couple extra days off work and have us all together. We hope everyone had a great Christmas!

yes, he found the tree