Thursday, February 21, 2013

Christmas Day 2012

Christmas Day was awesome!!!! We made waffles for our Christmas Eve dinner. Dont' laugh... That was one of my presents because we lost ours in the move from Idaho to New Mexico.

This is what Santa left for us! Troy decided it would be good to tell Hinckley the truth about Santa this year... It went a lot better than I thought it was going to go. It did take a little out of the magic for him this year which made me sad but it was good that we did it. I will try to explain why in a later post...

Do you love our fireplace made out of construction paper?! And we have a train under our tree that the kids loved!
All 5 of our stockings together on the couch
Last year we made a new tradition of a nerf gun fight on Christmas day. So Santa didn't disappoint this year with new guns!
We had a bit of a rough start to Christmas morning... I haven't decided whether or not to write about it. We did get through it and had a great day so maybe its not worth remembering?! Grandpa and Grandma Carter got to be on skype to see the kids come out and open their presents!


This is what Z-bug thought about Christmas
























I don't think we were done opening presents until like noon! We didn't have a ton but the boys were so excited about each one it took a while to open them! It was a great day.

Christmas Eve

We ventured out on Christmas Eve to do a little bowling. The older 2 boys had a blast! Zane was pretty happy and content hanging out with Dad while the rest of us bowled.


 It is so hard to get them both smiling at the camera!
 This was like attempt #6


 My handsome little 6 year old!





 It was serious business for this little dude to get the ball just right.




 Happy DANCE! LOL... what a goof ball







 FAVORITE PICTURE!






 He kept trying to kick the ball



 Hinks tried too
 Daddy and Z-bug


We loved going bowling again this year! We noticed a lot of arcade toys at a table near our lane and wondered if somebody had forgot their arcade prizes... Well at the end of bowling 2 girls ages 8 & 10 came back to their stuff. We got to talking and found out they were alone there. The bowling alley and arcade is right next to a casino and their parents were off gambling while they played alone on Christmas Eve! I WANTED TO CRY FOR THOSE GIRLS. We stayed a little while longer and talked with them and let our kids play around with them. I just wanted to take them home with us so they could be with family but of course we didn't.