Christmas

We are officially on Christmas break and life is grand! I feel like a stay at home mom again and am loving life. We had a incredibly terrific and blessed Christmas. The boys were spoiled by Santa and our family. We have just been playing with all their new toys all day every day.

The boys left Santa oreos and milk and carrots for the reindeer.

Josh left this note for Santa. I wrote it, but this is exactly what he told me to write.

Santa always leaves just a few big gifts and the rest are from Mommy, Daddy and our out of town family.
This year Santa  left the Polar Express train, bike and a scooter.

Josh has been on a 2 wheeler for a while now. He got a bigger bike. Daddy put hand brakes on it for him this week.

stockings

Josh zoomed all over the court on his new bike. See the red blob in the background?
Jason ran laps around the court. Not sure why Santa got a scooter if he is happy just running...

Grammie and Grampy got the boys remote control  trucks which were a big hit.

Jason sat on the curb in his PJs forever just driving his remote control truck until the battery died.

Christmas is so much fun with kids. It like being a kid again yourself. I am looking forward to still having more time off from school. We have lots of fun stuff planned. More to come on all our fun Christmas break adventures....

Christmas Play

On the last day of school before Christmas break Josh's class preformed a play during Chapel. Josh was one of the three wise men. He did such a great job as he always does and it was quite adorable.

This boy always makes me so proud!  



Jason's Christmas Concert

I was looking forward to Jason's Christmas Concert since I had no clue what they were doing. I knew what Josh was doing for his since my students were in it with him. Jason's....I was clueless and he kept telling me they were just singing Scooby Doo songs.

Handsome boy excited for his concert.

This is when the crying started. It was hard to get any good pictures  because of the lighting.

For the first part he cried on stage. I thought I was going to have to go up there and get him. He was not happy. I think it was because he couldn't find us in the crowd. Then his class went off stage for a bit. I kept asking Mike if I should go check on him. I am so glad I didn't because when they came out for the last songs he saw me crazily waving my arms at him. He instantly smiled and went from standing there crying on stage to this...

He made us laugh so hard. I am glad he came out of his shell and wasn't traumatized from it. We still aren't done with boys' Christmas performances. Josh's class is doing a Christmas play this week. Love it!

And... 3 and half more school days until Christmas Break. Yahoooooo!

Josh's Christmas Concert

Thursday night was our school's Christmas Concert. The concert Josh was in was Kindergarten through 3rd grade, so he was with my class. We got to be together for the dress rehearsal and performance which was fun. The concert was at the California Theater in downtown San Jose, which is beautiful. It was pretty awesome!

Rehearsal earlier that day

Outside the theatre... the "LI" theatre. They need to get their lights fixed.

Backstage waiting to start

My view from backstage

It was such a nice evening. Josh did so good and was just adorbale. Jason's Christmas Concert is next week!

Santa

Every year Santa comes to Daddy's work. This year Josh made his list all by himself and gave it to Santa. It was so cute. Neither of the boys wanted to sit on Santa's lap. At least there were no tears this year.

Santa reading Josh's list

Josh enjoying the goody bag from Santa

Jason being his silly self

Christmas Dinner Dance Time

Every December we go to a big Christmas event put on by Mike's work. It is something we look forward to all year long. We always have an awesome time together and with our friends who go with us each year. One of the main reasons we look forward to it so much is because we stay the night at the hotel the event is at and get to sleep in the next morning. What parents don't love a morning where they can sleep in?! Sleeping in this morning was pretty awesome!

Each year is a different theme and this year was Mardi Gras. That explains the huge gorilla in the mural behind us in some if these pics.



Gotta take the self portrait in the hotel room on our way downstairs to the event.





The decor was pretty amazing! Totally felt like you were at Mardi Gras.



The only bummer part of the night was that it went by way too fast. We had so much fun and can't wait for next year!

Christmas Tree

We went to Battaglia Ranch this week to pick out our Christmas tree. It's always so fun to walk around the Christmas Tree farm and find the perfect tree. We brought home a beautiful 8 ft tree that is making our house smell amazing!

It was freezing cold

Jason totally did this on purpose

This one is such a ham

Snowman Josh

I love this time of year!