Christmas

 December always seems to be a busy month.  This year was even busier as we decided to have a "Christmas with the Morin Family" only 5 days before our trip to Portland to have "Christmas with the Wilde Family."  My parents came out and stayed with us, and my sister, her husband and daughter came up to our house after church that Sunday.  We had a little Christmas Family Home Evening, where Joseph told the kids the Story of Christmas using the Little People Nativity.  It was adorable.  (I was certain we took pictures of this, but I couldn't find them, so if I do I'll just add them to the post later I guess.)  Starting Monday it was time for me to get the house in order and to start packing.  Our trip to Portland was great.  Austin and Kaylee both did really well on the plane rides.  We stayed with Joseph's sister, Angelina, and her husband, Wayne, where we enjoyed some space for the kids to run around, wonderful food, and the smell of a real Christmas Tree. :)  (We used an artificial tree this year since we were going to be out of town the whole week of Christmas.)  Austin and Kaylee loved playing with their cousins and everything about Christmas.  We had a wonderful time!

Austin watching The Polar Express on the plane ride to Portland.

Kaylee & Austin all dressed for church the Sunday before Christmas.

Christmas morning stockings.  They were very patient.

Story time with Grandma Ann and cousins.

Kaylee LOVES her pillow pet!

A picture I made for Joseph.  It says, "A father is his son's first hero and his daughter's first love."

Austin LOVES his trains!

Don't let this picture deceive you, Austin does NOT love his pillow pet.  He said he didn't like it's trunk.  We got him a Winnie the Pooh one when we got back to Phoenix and now Austin loves his pillow pet too. :)  Thank goodness.

This is a book from the Wilde Grandparents called How Animal Mommies Love their Babies.  Kaylee was hugging every page. It was adorable!