Now that Christmas is over...

I thought I'd have time to update this thing... yeah right!  Seeing that this will probably be my last entry for 2009 ~ I better try!

So, this year has been a little more hectic than most {I can't imagine why!  We only added another kid ~ sheesh!}.  :0)  It took us longer to get all of our Christmas decorations up.  Well, small correction.  I put up all our inside stuff November 3rd, while Clint was in Texas.  For all you humbugs out there, let me say I'm not ashamed that I decorated so early, I SO needed a pick-me-up and it did the trick!  As for the rest of it... yeeeeeeah.  It was a slow process {we have been SO BUSY!!!}.  BUT 2 weeks before the big day we finally got our lights up and tree bought.  Madi was really excited all that day and then KONK!  Fell asleep on the way to the tree store.  We tried to wake her up...

Nothing doing. 

It took me a week before I had the time to decorate it with Madi, and then I had to {ok, ok, ok, DECIDED to} make a new tree skirt {and matching stockings}, but it finally got finished and was beautiful.  Madi tried to be such a big helper with wrapping presents but mostly used up an entire roll of tape making bandaids {for anything that would sit still!  I still need to clean up Keahi's high chair!!}.

We got spoiled again this year, my dad got all of his kids 72-hour kits for their families and my brother gave us 12 #10 cans of Mountain House freeze dried meals.  Either they know something we don't or we just got hooked up for food storage!!  :0)  We also got a shredder, a camp table and a Camp Chef Stove.  Kiki's family gave us a beautiful frame and gave Madi a cool keyboard/book.  I got Clint new razor blades, clippers, a mag-light {our old one bounced off into the dessert on a 4-wheeling expedition} and some XBOX 360 games.  He got me 4 Cricut Cartridges and other Cricut accessories {WOOHOO!!!}.  Santa brought Madi the Littlest Petshop Adoption Care Center and Jonnet added a pack of 20 Littlest Petshop animals to fill it {and drive Daddy crazy with all the little pieces!!!}.  She also got a tea set from Clint's grandma, pots and pans for her kitchen set, Princess hair doing toys, UP, earrings... oh, I could go on and on!  Keahi got a pop-up toy, a shape sorter ball, clothes, earrings, a crinkly book that you put pictures in, diapers, a savings account... sheesh!  PLUS both girls got a $20 gift card to Wally-World from my dad!  I'm telling you, we got SPOILED!!

Since this is our last hoorah for 2009, I put in a LOT of pictures.  Some are from before Christmas

some are from our visit with Kiki before Christmas and on Christmas Day,

some are from Christmas with my family

and some are from our Christmas with Clint's fam.  The white knit beanie I made for my niece and wanted to show it off :0). 

So, that's it.  Our Christmas in a nutshell, a very BIG nutshell!  :0)  Merry Christmas to everyone!  Happy New Year!  Signing off 2009 ~ bring on 2010!!!!