Holly Jolly Christmas Adam and Eve

Christmas weekend celebration started on the Saturday of Christmas Adam.

Grammy Tammy (or "Tummy" as it sometimes sounds when Kasen says it) came down to hang out with us for a little while and we made an impromptu gingerbread house!

 When I say impromptu and you see how much candy I just happened to have at my house you might first think that we love candy, but I will prove to you that the exact opposite it true! I rarely eat candy.

The frosting was left over from Tai's birthday party 2 weeks ago. The kisses are from Dakota's graduation 1 week ago. The mini MnMs are from our green Grinch dinner with the Smiths, earlier this week. Kasen brought the peppermints home, in a trick or treat bag, from my parents house the week of Halloween. The lifesavers are from the stocking Kyle's parents gave us LAST Christmas! And the candy canes... from our wedding, 6 YEARS ago! The ribbon candy was delivered to us that morning from a neighbor. The graham crackers I had. Because 2 kids.

THAT is the story of how long candy will last at our house and how we were able to make an impromptu gingerbread house without having to buy any candy for it.

We actually just barely busted out a chocolate rabbit from Easter and have been breaking off pieces for Kasen's potty treats! Lol

This year is the first year since Kyle became a police officer that he had both Christmas Eve and Christmas day off! So we took full advantage of spending it together.

 Christmas Eve morning we went to Sacrament meeting at church and I sang a couple of songs with our ward choir. I love to sing, but even though I was in choir all through high school and have taken both violin and piano lessons, I cannot read music at all. I like singing with other people. No solos. Our ward choir only has two sopranos and since the other soprano was gone I was going to be all alone- freaking out! Luckily Lindsay Gneiting left the altos to sing with me though! Hallelujah!

 Thanks for holding her hand Kasen! Also, on the way home from church Kasen started using the work AWKWARD. It's the best because he uses is correctly too!

 I asked Kyle what he wanted for his Christmas Eve meal and he chose homemade pizza! I have never made homemade pizza before so I bought a pizza pan and found a pizza dough recipe on Pinterest and we made homemade pizza! Kyle's was a stuffed crust with pepperoni, pineapple, olives and jalapenos. Mine was a white artichoke, spinach and mushroom pizza! Sooo Good!!!
Kasen ate ramen noodles. That is his second favorite food after yogurt. He did eat the rest of the pineapple out of the can though and even drank the juice out of it when he was done!

 This was also the first year that I've bought us all matching pajamas. Kyle loved it....

I thought they were stinkin adorable. All the way from China.
Also, The only pictures with me in them from the entire weekend ;)

 Then we started making our cookies for Santa! I asked Kasen if he wanted to help unwrap the peppermint kisses, but he just wanted to hold the container for Kyle to throw them in.

 He did not want anyone eating any either, they had to go into his container for the cookies!

 He helped me roll the dough balls in sugar though! Until he decided that just licking sugar off of his fingers was more fun. Then I let him put the kisses on top of the cookies. He was so cute trying to count them as he went!

 When the kisses slid off he'd just put a new one on top of it. I had to let my OCD go for this one and just let Kasen be in charge of the cookies. He did so good!

 Later I walked into the kitchen to find Kasen talking to and loving on Peeka. They were so cute the entire night! She is so good to let the kids poke and stand on and pull on her.

 Kasen especially likes looking at her "teeth!"

 Peeka got a new dog house for Christmas and we brought it in before Kasen had gone to bed. He found a good spot to sit and play a few games after we read ALL of our Christmas books and even shook a jingle bell while we read the Polar Express one.

 "Hi Peeka!"

 He even tried it out and snuggled with Peeka in there for a little while. When it was bed time he begged us to let him go to sleep in there, but we sent him to his bed to wait for Santa.