Christmas Eve
We decided to do a nativity this year complete with costumes and the most awesomest stable ever constructed complete with an orange crate for the manger! It went um... ok. We learned some pointers for next year.
1. wait until the parents are fully costumed and ready to go before dressing the children or else their perfect costumes will loose their appeal and will end in many screams from the 2 yr old.
2. If you have an amazing angle costume complete with lights plan on dressing the 2 yr old in the same costume because suddenly wearing a towel on your head to be Joseph just isn't cool enough any more.
3. Don't worry that the 1 and 2 yr olds didn't preform their parts with perfection, they are 1 and 2. I know you have been telling yourself that since this idea was hatched, but really, quench that small glimmer of hope that maybe, just maybe, they will be perfect.
4. Go ahead and start with 2 baby Jesus's to avoid the initial fighting and perhaps another manger as well to avoid the one baby being used to hit the other out of the manger.
5. Take pictures before, you may be asking before what but you'll find out soon enough!
... well at least it will be a start!
This is Cora as Mary, giving loves to the baby Jesus
We have a tradition to have the Elves come and drop off Christmas Pj's on Christmas Eve and Justice has a Tradition of going for a walk on Christmas Eve to look for Santa so we combined them and when the kids got back from their walk the elves had been there and left something... Izaac was rather disappointed that the elves only brought candy and pillowcases(made by aunt Krissy!) and not treats... he really likes treats.
This was the closest I could get to a nice picture of the two of them,,, yep it is the second after Izaac hit Cora
Cora with candy cane in her hair, can you find it???Christmas Morning!
Knock Knock... Who could it be??
It's The Erickson's!!! all the way from Canada!! Can you BELIEVE it???
It's The Erickson's!!! all the way from Canada!! Can you BELIEVE it??? (We were so excited with this lovely surprise that my sister Alyssa included in our Christmas package from my mom! They didn't want us to have to eat alone!)
Brotherly bonding time playing the Wii... way to High Five!
Riley is the WINNER!! It was rather surprising that he could eat and play at the same time.
Alyssa and I fighting over putting nuts into the salad... I totally won so she went and sulked by eating all my Chocolates from Gram... Fatty :( ... I don't like to share :( :{
My little ham!
My little ham!
Cora and Cloe playing, it was all good until Cloe offended Cora some how, I think she tried to steal Cor's Dora.
Izaac insisted on sitting next to Baby Brigham!... hmmm looks like they couldn't wait for the rest of us to sit down!
Cora loved sitting by Uncle Riley and he quite enjoyed all the scraps that she fed him from her plate
Hooray for popper hats!!
Izaac insisted on sitting next to Baby Brigham!... hmmm looks like they couldn't wait for the rest of us to sit down!
Cora loved sitting by Uncle Riley and he quite enjoyed all the scraps that she fed him from her plate
Hooray for popper hats!!
Izaac giving kisses to Uncle Riley and Cloe... pictured just too late!
3 comments:
Holy cow! I started laughing uncontrollably when I looked at the 'best' picture of the two darlings having some brother/sister bonding time in front of the camera...aka Christmas boxing action shot with Cora's head flinging back and Izaac's fist mid air. In fact, I keep on going back to that picture to laugh some more. so funny!
I loved your post! I feel like such a Christmas lame-o, it is so much work to instill these traditions! I wish I was more motivated or at least had a task master. I loved Alyssa's family eating pictures joining along with all of the festivities. Rock on. They seemed like not bad company. ;)
awwww!! that is a'cora'ble! haha Oh and by the way this is Adrien. If you can't tell. anyways, I decided since we are going down for megans baptism, I should make a blog so all of us can keep in touch. Anyways, Love you guys!
I am totally playing blog catch up and am still sticking to my statement of you guys being outgoing great parents. I love how you went to the hershey park, did a family nativity, made gingerbread houses, went to the parade, etc, etc, etc. I love it. I think my favorite has to be the story of being locked out of the house with the police and all. Oh and my favorite picture is of the kids in santa hats eating cookies :) I love all the stories. Thanks for sharing with us :)
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