Girls Night Out

One of the nights while Nikki was here we had a fun night out. First we headed over to Brick House for a yummy meal by the fire. Then we headed over to Pinot's Painting for a fun painting project. Here's my progress on the painting:

The artists at work:

The finished outcome, I love it!!

Stephanie had seen a painting in their bathroom so she decided to do her background different, Nikki did yellow flowers, Mom did Maroon flowers and I tried to copy the original- if you zoom in to this picture the original is just past Mom's head. We had such a fun girls night out!!

Christmas Day

A few days before Christmas the kids made their annual visit to see Santa, Bailey was so excited to see Santa...unless she was on his lap.

On Christmas Eve we made sure the big man had a nice snack and Jaxson made sure Santa knew what the carrot was for :)

Christmas morning was perfect! The kids were awesome, the gifts were a hit and the homemade breakfast was just the way to start our Christmas day! How funny is Jaxson with one sock off! :)

Christmas afternoon we headed over for the Powers Christmas and to see Nikki & Gabe who had arrived from Colorado.

What's in this bag??

We finished off the night with a Christmas Light Scavenger Hunt. It was a very Merry Christmas, we are blessed!

Christmas Eve

This Christmas Eve was filled with a lot of firsts and some really great memories! Earlier in the week Scott was watching Pioneer Woman who was making these fantastic looking Cinnamon rolls, he suggested we try to make them- and I'm always up for a baking adventure so we planned to do this together on our Christmas Eve. The recipe was pretty lengthy and we gave away 5 trays of rolls because the batch was so huge- but the rolls were delicious and this is something we will do again next year for sure!

Next up was Christmas Eve service, it was so nice to get to go to our church on Christmas eve. Bailey loved the service and was a dancing queen in the front row. Her dress was handmade by Nana and was absolutely beautiful!

Next up for Christmas eve was a fun night with the Richters. Unfortunately for Uncle Steve he was called into work at the last minute- but it made for a very fun and memorable evening for the rest of us when we met up with him. First we headed over to Grammie and Popo's for dinner and a few gifts.

A few days before Christmas Jaxson and Bailey were supposed to go to the family skate night at the Cedar Park Center- but Jaxson had a 24 hour stomach bug so we weren't able to go. When we got to the Cedar Park Center to visit Uncle Steve on Christmas Eve he had a special surprise for Jaxson and Bailey- he had Christmas music going and the kids got to go onto the ice. It was awesome, Jaxson said it was "the best gift ever"!!!

After we had our fun time on the ice we went up to the area where the suites are to finish opening up gifts and finish off our Christmas Eve.

It was a bummer for Uncle Steve that he had to work, but that was sure a memorable Christmas Eve- we were thankful he did work :)

Christmas Break

I had last week off from work and before it began I had the whole week planned out...I wanted to fill every day with something fun. I was so excited to have the time off with the kids and didn't want to waste one minute sitting around being bored! Here's some of the fun stuff we did:

Jumpstreet

Build-a-bear

 Aquarium

Play for All Park

Thinkery Children's Museum

 Other Random Fun

We accomplished a fantastic week of FUN! I seriously loved my time off and especially enjoyed my extra time with my loves! Jaxson and Bailey were inseparable, I just love watching the way they play together, laugh together and enjoy being brother and sister! What a blessing!!