Favorite Holiday Memories of 2013
Cooper running into church on Christmas Eve with Jeremy and Izzy, seeing me with my Sunday School class, and yelling, "Mommy, I got my TIE on!!"
Cooper 'getting' the idea of presents was a blast! And he was pretty okay with the idea of unwrapping everything before playing with one thing.
Izzy 'booping' the tree ornaments, after thousands of times saying, "No, no, Izzy!" She decided to copy her brother and poke at them with her pointer finger.
Sledding down the deck stairs with daddy.
The kids amazing us at their flexibility staying up late, being pretty well-behaved, and even sleeping a tiny bit later in the mornings. (We regularly made it to 7 AM over the five days surrounding Christmas!) We had five Christmases in five days... but they were troopers!!
Making cookies for Santa. Well, let me rephrase... Cooper rolling out the dough, poking all the cookies to make 'buttons,' and dumping sprinkles on while saying, "Spinkle, spinkle, spinkle." And Izzy shoving fistfulls of dough into her cute little mouth while I was distracted.
Both kids freaking at the sight of Santa. Again. Like death-grip, hide their faces, scream-when-we-try-to-put-them-on-his-lap freaking. But the Santa we saw did a really great job trying to get them warmed up. Good effort, Mr. Claus, but no chance.
Cooper being confused about a puppy being inside his big box and Gma and Gpa Kalal's house. Then his confusion when there was nothing in the box. Then his sheer excitement when he received the 4-wheeler from Jackie!! And, of course, his love of driving back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, through the living room on it.
Cooper being confused about a puppy being inside his big box and Gma and Gpa Kalal's house. Then his confusion when there was nothing in the box. Then his sheer excitement when he received the 4-wheeler from Jackie!! And, of course, his love of driving back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, through the living room on it.
The kids agreeing to photos only when Izzy got to sit in Cooper's lap. And he either nearly strangled or strongly smooched her every time.
The entire holiday break was simply awesome. We got a lot of time to see family, relax, and have fun together. What a blessing to have this time off together. It was stress-less and wonderful!! Below is a Smilebox creation I made... I have never embedded one on my blog page, so I hope it works! You should be able to zoom into individual pictures if you want a closer look at any. (Sorry about the ads!)
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tr><td><a href="http://www.smilebox.com/play/4d7a6b7a4d6a63354e44453d0d0a&blogview=true&campaign=blog_playback_link&partner=smileboxa" target="_blank"><img width="420" height="330" alt="Click to play this Smilebox collage" src="http://www.smilebox.com/snap/4d7a6b7a4d6a63354e44453d0d0a.jpg" style="border: medium none ;"/></a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.smilebox.com?partner=smileboxa&campaign=blog_snapshot" target="_blank"><img width="420" height="46" alt="Create your own collage - Powered by Smilebox" src="http://www.smilebox.com/globalImages/blogInstructions/blogLogoSmilebox.gif" style="border: medium none ;"/></a></td></tr><tr><td align="center">Personalize your own <a href="http://www.smilebox.com/?campaign=blog_playback_link&partner=smileboxa" target="_blank">free digital collage</a></td></tr></table>
Or the actual link, if that's not working:Christmas Collage 2013
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