to try to remember what everyone got for christmas would be an impossible task mostly because i broke the tradition that after opening all the gifts i separate then into piles and take a pic. this year there was so much stuff, and a big mess, that i instantly wanted to try to get it cleaned up and under control. besides alot of the gifts were small and wouldn't be seen so great if i took a picture. i could tell you the main and best gifts. i got a car starter. tony got guitar hero world hero for xbox 360. it's so cool. it has a drum set and guitar. i play the drums. it's so addictive. there's also a mic so someone can sing. for a couple of songs, tony took a break from playing the guitar to try singing. he was so horrible and i was laughing so hard that i missed so many notes playing the drums that a failed out. mady got a kitchen set. kian got a crib bedding set that has planes on it. i wish i could remember more but nonetheless we all had a wonderful christmas and you hope you all did too!

our stockings hung waiting to be stuffed by santa claus


before and after pictures of our tree



(i forgot these pictures were on my camera and i just got around to it today downloading all the pix off my camera so i thought i would include them in my xmas post. but i still don't have any of all our presents once they were opened)

more than one christmas

christmas will come two days this year for our family. i just got off work at 4am and woke tony up so we could stuff stockings and put together some presents. we are going to celebrate christmas today, christmas eve because tomorrow we will be going over to his mum's and having christmas with his sister and family and his mum and didn't want that to take away from our family christmas.. so whatever day you and your family will be celebrating christmas, from our family to ours...MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Christmas preparations, shopping, decorating inside of house, wrapping, planning, deciding, shopping, decorating outside of house, buying a real christmas tree for $40 then going to buy a stand for the real christmas tree and seeing a fake christmas tree for $263 that i absolutely love and had to have and bought that was on sale for $199 (so now we have two christmas trees and paid $240, which is less than buying the fake christmas tree if it wasn't on sale), setting up the fake christmas tree in the house and the real christmas tree outside, decorating the fake christmas tree. all that and we have more decorating and shopping and wrapping to do before christmas. this is why i have not blogged or checked blogs in awhile. all the while still having to work a full-time job, take care of two kids, clean the house, cook, do laundry, be a wife. and we actually had time to go for family pictures. it was fun and so easy cause we went to lady locally who does it. mady was cooperative cause she knew her and we weren't on some kind of schedule like at walmart where they rush you cause they have other appointments. the pictures turned out so good and we will finally send out an official christmas card. here's a sneak peek of our photo shoot. it was so hard to decide which ones to post to show you since all of them turned out so good.














and there's about a hundred more she took!

before time gets away from me again and since you all can see how busy i am i want to wish everyone HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!