Christmas! 25th and 26th combined (in pictures)!

 

1- Santa Clause, and that he came to our house!

2- Pretty Christmas Trees . . .

3- and scared/excited faces! (I really can’t tell which emotion this is!)

4- This face (surprise!)

5- And this face (what’s that? . . . I think I might want it!)

6- And this face (gimme that camera!)

7- And definitely this face (what’s going on here – said super slow mo)

8- And yes, even this face (your ear is mine!!!!)

9- And that I finally uploaded those pictures to the computer! (From the Festival of Tress the first week of December)

10- I’m grateful that we get together every year for a Christmas party with my dad and his family.

11- And that their house is freaking amazingly beautiful and their Christmas decorations spectacular.

12- And that, for the first time, Kaiah was able to spend Christmas with them, too!

13- And how cute she was with the present bows in her hair . . .

14- And that of all the bows stuck to her, she chose to pull out the one that was actually suppose to be there!

15- And this face (how could you do this to me, mom?!?)

16- One of Kaiah’s new Christmas outfits . . .

17- And that we got a HUGE bag of rice for Christmas, to go along with our . . .

18- Brand new gigantic and super nice rice cooker! (Thanks to Ashley and Megan, my Canadian Freshmas roommates for introducing me to rice cookers for the first time!)

19- Thing 1 and Thing 2 outfits from Grandma and Grandpa Bright

20- My mom’s animated hand motions

21- And this face (really, another picture?)

22- That we were able to spend Christmas with Cloe and Noah (Stephen’s kids).

23- That Cloe is the BEST babysitter I have EVER met! She had Kaiah entertained crawling away from the evil “humans” and giving her “victory cheerios” for hours! Then she entertained Caleb (4 yrs old) by zapping the evil witch (my mom) and obliterating her brain. LOVE CLOE!

24- That Noah pretends that he doesn’t like Kaiah, but then he giver her kisses and calls her Kaiah Bug and plays with her when no one is watching! It melts my heart to see the look in his eyes when he plays with Kaiah!

25- That Kaiah has two more people to call aunt and uncle

26- That Cloe prepared a beautiful song to perform for us on Christmas Eve – complete with her own homemade song book!

27- That she has a KILLER voice!

28- That I don’t find them near as annoying as I used to! (no offense ). They are getting older and I grow to love them more and more every year!

29- That Kaiah was able to spend Christmas Eve with my immediate and closest family . . . Jer, Kaiah, Grandma We We, Grandpa Bright, Aunt Cloe, Uncle Noah, Aunt Kamie, Uncle Alex, Cousin Ari, Uncle Joe-face, and great grandma Jaylene!

30- That they all wanted to capture the action, except for my grandma who would have the slightest clue what to do with a camera!

31- And that my grandma is priceless . . .

32- Kaiah’s first Christmas present (from Aunt Cloe and Uncle Noah)

33- And this face! (Presents . . . please!)

34- Christmas pajamas

35 – And cousin kisses!

36- New big girl convertible car seat (thanks grandma we we!)

37- And big girl Tinkerbell bean bags!

38- Stylin hats

39 – And shoes . . .

40- And clothes!

41- Entire new wardrobes – Kaiah is set for the whole year!

42 – And new storage bins – Kaiah loves pulling things out of them!

43- Stuffed animals and books

44- New froggy rockers

45- And more toys than one girl could possible need!

46- Gloworm toys from Grandma and Grandpa Payne. I had one when I was a baby and I loved it, and Kaiah loves hers, too!

47- That we were able to host Christmas this year. Thanks to both my family and Jer’s for coming to our house!

48- And that we didn’t have to drive all over the place (we usually do Heber and Tooele all on Christmas day!)

49- That becoming a mom has brought on a whole new level of Christmas – it is so much more exciting!

50-  And that I get to do this all over again next year.

51- And that even though Jer and I only bought Kaiah really cheap essentials (hangers, bowl, and hair clips), she got PLENTY from all of her grandparents! It is nice to know that Kaiah can still get spoiled even though her parents are poor!