Christmas Eve

The cousins opening their presents.

The cousins listening to Granpa Evans' Christmas talk.

Zach and Blake. Blake really enjoyed his gift from Grandma and Grandpa Evans.

Grandma Evans (my mom) crying over her Christmas present. My sisters
and I had a professional picture done of all 16 grand kids. I hope she enjoys it
because I don't know if we want to do such an undertaking again.

My dad sporting his Christmas hat that Tricia gave him. It fits him perfectly!

All 16 of my parents grandchildren on Christmas Eve at Traci' s home.

The Ronald McDonald House

My sisters and I take our older kids to make the dinner.
Tyler, Zach, Trent, Lexi, Kassi, Aubrey and Cameron.

The Ronald McDonald House

Our annual Christmas Tradition - making dinner at the Ronald McDonald House.

We made Navajo Tacos and a Sundae Bar.

I love The Festival Trees. I went with Zach this year.

Kaeden and Santa. Kaeden wants transformers and a Wii for Christmas.
He was a good boy - so he received both. (The Wii was a family gift.)

Christmas

I love Christmas! I love everything about it! I love the anticipation of Christmas. I love Christmas music, the goodwill toward men that is in the air otherwise known as the Christmas Spirit, Christmas movies, cookie exchanges, neighbor gifts, Christmas cards/letters, Christmas goodies (receiving and making them.) gingerbread men, Christmas decorations, giving my children Christmas presents and I could go on and on.

I am not a fan of the after Christmas let down. The goodwill towards men disappears quickly. That being said, I will focus on our Christmas season and the good things.

Halloween

I love Halloween! Actually, I love all holidays! I love decorating my home for the holidays, I love making holiday foods and having a reason to celebrate. Anthony's favorite holiday is Halloween.

Some of the fun things we did to celebrate Halloween this year were: carved pumpkins, made Halloween cookies and boo'd our neighbors, had a family Halloween party with cousins, went to the corn maze & a haunted house (The Castle of Chaos), went trick or treating for almost 2 hours and Anthony & I went to Thriller put on by the Odyssey Dance  Company at Kingsbury Hall. I actually didn't go to the corn maze or the Haunted House but Anthony went with the kids. (I stayed home with Blake.) 

We really enjoyed Thriller. My favorite dance number was called "Dem Bones." It was amazing how they did it - to see the dancers look like real skeletons was quite amazing. They sure did have amazing lighting and incredible choreography. 

For Halloween, Zach dressed up in a black wig with all black clothes and cool sun glasses. People thought he was either Michael Jackson or Al Capone. He wasn't really trying to be anyone, he just did something fast for a costume so he could go trick or treating. Kaeden was GI Joe and Blake was Spiderman. Kassi didn't dress up for Halloween. She spent the night at Grandma Evans' home giving out candy. 

We had very few trick or treaters last night - so I have a lot of left over candy. (Reeses, Kit Kat and Hersheys.) Now, I have to hide the candy so I won't eat it.