have i mentioned lately how much i love dave?
he worked hard this christmas to make it nice for everyone.
he sent sadie and me to salt lake for 24 hours. we stayed in the little america hotel. we ate and shopped. it was so fun! when i came home, he had the house all clean for christmas. i needed to step away for a minute and enjoy getting out. he made it happen and he made sure when i came back, i wasn't more behind then when i left.
the next day, he walked in from a long day at work on christmas eve and he took over for me. i excused myself to wrap gifts and he cooked the entire christmas eve dinner.
he always takes over right when i need him to.
we like to spend christmas eve as a family.
this year the kids worked on their gifts for each other (aka 'santa's workshop'), then sadie took them ice skating while i cleaned up and did dinner prep.
dave cooked salmon, steak, shrimp and crab legs.
kai helped cook and set the table, even cutting branches from our yard for the napkins:)
after our candle light dinner, we exchanged sibling gifts.
i almost put this tradition on hold this year, because it takes work, but i like the idea of the kids thinking about each other, so we did simple gifts and i'm glad we did.
this year, viv had sadie.
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abe gave to kai.
he made star wars pokemon cards.
kai gave to max.
he created a thumb wars game.
sadie gave to abe.
lets just say, abe was a little excited.
she gave him a coupon to go see star wars with her, and a new light-saber.
max gave to vivian.
he decorated her doll house for christmas. she liked it.
christmas eve jammies were a hit!
everyone immediately stripped down and put them on...haha!
sadie was feeling a little uncomfortable!!
even kai liked his elf of the shelf pjs, which i thought might be a zonk. loved them!
the kids headed downstairs to sleep all together in sadie's room.
the stockings were hung and
the stockings were hung and
vivian was so excited.
good times!
