Christmas 2010

We had a wonderful Christmas. On Christmas Eve, we had a nice candle-light dinner, read the Christmas story, and opened PJ's.

Christmas morning, Cassie and Jessie were awake at 6, and Jason and I heard them sneaking downstairs to take a peek. Being the mean parents that we are, we made them wait for Carston to wake up. In the meantime, we made some cinnamon rolls for breakfast, and while we were eating, Carston woke up. The kids were too excited to eat, so we went ahead and got into the stockings and opened our presents. Here are pictures:

Our tree before we opened presents.

Stockings:

Gifts for each other:

Gifts from Santa:

Other presents:

The weather was rainy all day, and we decided to spend a relaxing day inside. Jason prepared a nice steak and shrimp shish kabob dinner. This was definitely not our usual Christmas, but we had a nice day. We miss everyone at home, and hope you all had a good Christmas, as well.

Ready for Christmas

Just wanted to post some pictures of our Christmas decorations. We finally got our last package today, so we're all ready. Merry Christmas everyone!

We bought this little Christmas tree at the after Christmas sales last year. It is a bit smaller than we thought, but easier to store here than our larger tree would be.
The stockings were hung by the stairs with care... Speaking of that, we're anticipating that Santa will have to squeeze through the air vent this year, because we don't have a fire place our electric heater/air conditioner/de-humidifier units don't vent to the outside.

Santa

Santa came to visit at our Branch Christmas Party this year. Carston has been very excited about all the pictures of Santa out this year. He says, "There he is. Santa," and sometimes, "Ho, Ho." But when it came time to sit in his lap, he wasn't so sure.

White Beach

Temperatures went back up to 77 on Saturday, December 11, so we decided to go check out White Beach Naval Station. We found some cool sea shells and had a blast playing on the play ground. It was a beautiful day to be outside. I can't believe it's December!

Singing at the Food Court

Jessica's class and another Kindergarten class from her school teamed up to carol at the food court on December 8. The kids were so cute, and they did a great job. The day before the performance, Jessica said she was nervous, but you can't tell it in the pictures! There were so many cute pictures, I just couldn't decide which ones to post, so I'm posting quite a few.

Waiting to get started.


Jessica was one of the angels in the Angel Band number.


Playing her triangle in the angel band.


She's a star!

She looks like she's having a good time.

She's got moves- and she knows where the camera is.

It was so cute when all the kids were doing the twist.

What a cutie. She did great!