i LOVE christmas time

It has been an exceptional FUN busy christmas holiday this year.
Parker Adam and Abigail are loving every second of everyday with all the excitement and christmas sprit that is around us. James and I are having so much fun watching them get excited, we are just loving it.
Parker especially has been counting down the days until christmas and he just can't wait!

here he is sending off his SANTA note at the post office the other day, he was asking the post lady there all kinds of questions and making sure SANTA would get his letter. it was so funny.

note to Santa: 

he always involves adam and abby and i love it.

 his list isn't too hard... unless both of them are MIA sure hope SANTA finds what he wants....?

 5 is such a fun age for christmas. He is excited about EVERYTHING. we have been talking about the real meaning of christmas a lot lately and he has been so cute. He was asked what gift he would give back to Jesus in his primary class a couple weeks ago (i taught his class) and he said, be kind to everyone. SO SWEET. he sure is a tender hearted little boy and we love him so much. i hope we can continue teaching him good things. he sure teaches me about the small and simple things daily. they are such sweet spirits at this age.

They made o'GINGERBREAD houses on the last day of school. he said it was "AWESOME" 

i was happy because we didn't get around to making one ourselves this year...:)

our neighbor gifts

thanks to my good friend CANDIS' creativeness i had fun yummy treats to give out this year!!

parker and i had fun delivering them. i still can't believe christmas is in only a few days!

3 to be exact, parker is keeping me on track!

we had a neighborhood christmas caroling party monday night. It was a fun fun night. There was NO snow on that ground that morning but then by the end of the day we had inches and inches!!! A few feet by the next day! i wasn't sure how we would be able to go caroling but we made it! we bundled up and off we went! there was a huge group of us trekking through the snow, and down the roads. the kids throwing each other in the snow, snowball fights and everything else! the twins followed close behind. Abby LOVED it. she wasn't quite sure at first and wanted to be held but then when she wanted down, she was off! i couldn't pick her up after that. She didn't want to walk on the sidewalk.. she wanted to stomp through the mountains of snow! it was so funny. adam following the "big" boys around. pretty sure he thinks he is the same age as Parker! I hadn't ever seen parker in the snow like that before, he was running and sliding in it, throwing himself in it, crawling through it, it was great. he hasn't been much of a snow lover, he loves it now!

we went back to our neighbors house for a dinner and some fun! It was a great night. So glad we were able to go (twins were too little the first year, and the 2nd we were out of town) 

great hosts, great food, and lots of laughing and chatting. THANKS for invited us!     

... no pictures sadly, i didn't even take my camera! i know, weird but i didn't want it to ruin in the snow!

also i find the kids daily under the tree with their toys playing with each other. It is so funny. they love it!
i think they will be sad, when we take the tree down!

this is when abby says, LEAVE US ALONE
that look of hers.. it still is so cute! ha. most of the time anyways..