Christmas with the Prazeau's

After Christmas morning and a nap for Olivia, we headed to my dad's house for a Christmas celebration with my side of the fam.  We had a huge potluck, gifts for the littles and our annual gift exchange.

Beautiful Stephers and RJ

Peyton playing with his DS.  Austin also got one from Santa and they had fun playing with them together.

Gorgeous nieces Marissa and Alexa.

She will kill me for posting this pic..haha.  Steph playing peek-a-boo with Livs

Opening stockings 

We all got this Christmas card from my nephew Brandon and his new bride Kate announcing their new arrival in July!

{Great} Grandpa opening a picture frame for a future pic of a new great grandchild!

At this point we all had a little too much wine and we were taking pics like this and also, the boys all had a contest weighing themselves on the scale? Random, but true Prazeau crazy style.

Best friend/sister/niece forever!

Mayhem in the kitchen

Amy and I

Cousin Love!

Sibling love!

My bro Hugh and sis-in-law Sherri

More loot.  I see a bedroom clean out and Goodwill run in our  near future.

Giving Grandpa loves

More Ninjago Legos {And my brother Hugh in the background, gotta love him}

Getting help from Kate

Oh Lex, just show your gorgeous face.

Watching Grandpa open gifts

Silly cousins!

Santa Came!

I always get a little giddy Christmas Eve night, excited for the kids to wake up and see that Santa came.  Thankfully this year we wrapped most of the gifts and put toys together ahead of time so we could go to bed at a decent hour!

Santa came!

Opening stockings...It was hard to get Peyton to slow down for his sister

Opening their loot! Peyt's big gift from Santa was a Nintendo DS, he also got legos, a remote control quad, a ninja turtle, lots of Ninjago stuff and more. Liv got a Disney kitchen from Santa, legos, colors, clothes, and more.

A few of my favorite gifts.  My favorite being the ornament Peyton made me at school.

Making some 'breakpest'

Legos!

Playing DS...and notice our LOVELY torn apart floors, we are still waiting for our insurance company. So frustrating!

Christmas Eve with the Springer's

We headed to B's parents' house for dinner and Christmas celebration! We had delicious prime rib and pasta, and the kids had so much fun opening gifts.  They are lucky to have grandparents that love them SO much!

My girl and I.

Her 'cheese' smile

Loved his excitement for all things Christmas this year.  

My Loves!  (And purple wine teeth!)

She loves her Daddy...total Daddy's girl

Opening gifts...they loved their dream lites from Great Grandma Barb

Grammy and Papa showered them with so many gifts.

Peyton so excited about his Green Machine

And Liv loved her girly quad

Class Christmas Card

Santa land

Last week one day the kids met me at work and we headed downtown to visit Santa at Macy's Santa Land.  Peyton was super excited, as was Olivia.  We were the only ones there surprisingly and the kids got to talk to Santa while they looked around.  Olivia was fine in my arms, until I sat her down on Santa's lap and she FREAKED.  I was tired after working all day and really wasn't wanting to be in the picture, but Santa encouraged B and I to come over to ease her anxiety and make it a family pic.  Peyton was in awe of Santa and said to me afterwards: "Mom.  I didn't know Santa was THAT real." 

This pic is priceless.  Her face kills me.

Gingerbread house

One night after I got off work this past week we built a gingerbread house! I manned the frosting, B manned the camera, Peyt manned the candies, and Olivia helped out too but got frustrated to not be right in the action.  

Thanks B..

So excited

Decorating a snowman

But wanting to do whatever Peyton is doing.