Up on the Housetop...Christmas 2014

Merry Christmas! Here I am updating for the months of November and December. I'll just jump right in on a few of the merry memories!

• Eli is obsessed with "juicy tomatoes" (not eating them, just squishing them), picking "carrots" from our frozen garden and "Pete's bootie on fire" (from the Mickey Mouse Christmas cartoon) and "Pete not nice"
• Eli will just bust out singing the start of the Lion king song....you know, the one that starts the movie off with the random sounds and words...
• Edward wants to wear his pj pants backwards for the "taggies" and picks out his clothes according to which tags he likes.
• Eli asks to pray for 'Nana, grandaddy and Ethan' every night.
• Our first visit with Santa this year was on December 5 and Edward completely and totally surprised me on what a big boy he was!! Eli was very skeptical, so I had to sit with him. And then Santa asked Edward what his names was and he clearly stated "Edward" and then I answered for Eli. Next, Santa asked what he wanted for Christmas and Edward said without pause "garbage truck and cement truck...garbage truck with trash can and real trash in it" and Santa asked Eli and he said "cement truck". Santa knows what my boys wanted!
• Edward told Eli "Eli, on Christmas day we can open presents" . This year was a magical year as I watched Edwards anticipation for Christmas....leaving reindeer food out, making cookies, gingerbread house, Santa coming down the chimney. He was completely embracing all of the fun of Christmas and we especially celebrated Jesus' birthday and even made Him a birthday cake. 
• The boys were quite worried that Daddy was going to eat their gingerbread house "Daddy no eat gingerbread house"
• Eli loves to sing! This year 'Jingle Bells' sounded alot like "taco bell". Some of our other favorite non-holiday songs right now are 'muffin man' and 'farmer and the dell'. They both particularly loved the song "hit the road Jack" when we heard it somewhere recently.
• We celebrated the season with lots of fun activities which included:
• Breakfast with Santa at the discovery center
• Santa meet and greet at the PPHM in canyon
• Lights parade in Canyon square
• Zoo lights
• Botanical gardens lights
• Bishop Hills lights
• Christmas movies
• Christmas Eve Service at Trinity Baptist
• Trains at Canyon library
• Some of the most loved presents this year have been:
• Garbage and cement truck
• Hot wheels race track
• Leappad
• Eli got 'Spare Mint' from Edward and he is obsessed with it, will not put it down!

Ho, ho, ho Merry Christmas and a blessed 2015 New Year!