All dressed and ready for the big night!!! I must say there is nothing like being a kid and the excitement of Christmas Eve... Except for being the Mama of the 3 kids!! Friday, December 25, 2009
Christmas Eve 2009
All dressed and ready for the big night!!! I must say there is nothing like being a kid and the excitement of Christmas Eve... Except for being the Mama of the 3 kids!! 
The Season Part 3
Wow! I am so behind on blogging about the Christmas season. It is actually Christmas Day, the kids are in bed after a long day filled with spending time with family, opening presents, and most importantly celebrating our Savior's birth. "The season" is far from over, we still have 2 families left to celebrate with and a nice long drive to South Carolina. Christmas Eve we hosted the annual Weathington Family Christmas party. It was quite in adventure getting ready for the event. Zach finished the foyer!!! Yeah I finally have my house back in order, and cleaned the house--I unexpectedly got called into work 4 hours before people were supposed to be at our house. Oh well!! It worked out okay, I only had to work for 2 hours and then was back home to help finish the cleaning. Our house was full!!!! I think that is how houses are meant to be. With 9 kids and 13 adults, we shared lots of laughter, meat on the grill (thanks guys for cooking in the nasty weather) and played a combination of white elephant/dirty Santa game. I haven't laughed so much in a long time. It was amazing that our kids are finally getting big enough to entertain themselves and let the adults spend a nice evening together. Thanks everyone for driving out to the other side of the county. We had a great time!
Back up a couple of days and the kids finally finished school with all of their Christmas Parties and celebrations! I had to work on the day of all of their parties. I was really sad at first, but it actually turned out okay. Zach went with E and Lauren went with S. Sometimes you just have to be okay with not being at EVERYTHING and know that life will go on!!! This will just make the parties and special events I do get to attend all the better!!!! Thankful to have a job I love, (a lot more than some people can say) even if I do have to miss a Christmas party or two.
I have lots of Christmas pictures to post and will get even more in the next coming days!!! Finally glad the day is here, so we can get a little rest. All the work is done and now time to enjoy being with family and celebrating the birth of our Savior!!!
Back up a couple of days and the kids finally finished school with all of their Christmas Parties and celebrations! I had to work on the day of all of their parties. I was really sad at first, but it actually turned out okay. Zach went with E and Lauren went with S. Sometimes you just have to be okay with not being at EVERYTHING and know that life will go on!!! This will just make the parties and special events I do get to attend all the better!!!! Thankful to have a job I love, (a lot more than some people can say) even if I do have to miss a Christmas party or two.
I have lots of Christmas pictures to post and will get even more in the next coming days!!! Finally glad the day is here, so we can get a little rest. All the work is done and now time to enjoy being with family and celebrating the birth of our Savior!!!
Monday, December 7, 2009
The Season Part 2
Wow!
I cannot believe it is Dec 7th and we are smack dab in the middle of the Christmas season! We survived S birthday weekend--always thrown in the middle of the season. She had her cousin and a friend from school over to spend the night. The next morning we headed to the skating rink with 5 kids in tow!!! (Wow, never realized when you have 3 of your own, it doesn't take but just a couple more and you have a heard of kiddos)!!! All the kids including M tried their hand at skating, lets just say that no one quite mastered the rink while we were there. There was a lot of falling, a few tears, soreness and bruising-- but thank God no broken bones. Proof that God answers prayers!!! The minute all the kids got out on the rink and started falling all over the place this mama started praying!!!! Maybe skating with 5 kids ages 3, 5, 7, and 8 was not the best thought out idea. Zach and I both enjoyed the skating, we hadn't skated in over 15 years!!!
The tree is up and we have all really enjoyed it this year. This is the first year in a long time that I have not had to struggle with keeping little hands away from ornaments on the tree. We still have had some tragic ornament accidents, but by now I most of my ornaments are pretty kid proof. (All the fragile ornaments have already been destroyed in the years past). The shopping is coming along and the kids are changing their Christmas lists daily! Santa should make a rule that there should be no last minute toy swapping on the Christmas list!! Ha!
I have really enjoyed the Christmas music at church. I never get tired of those old Christmas hymns we sing over and over. I also like some new Christmas songs too!
My goal is to get my Christmas shopping done in the next couple of weeks and to attempt some baking. We will see how this goes...We still have parties and Christmas cards, school events and lots to do before we sleep and lots to do before we sleep... I love the WHOLE season of Christmas. The business, the excitement, but most of all the celebration of MY SAVIOR'S birth!!!
I cannot believe it is Dec 7th and we are smack dab in the middle of the Christmas season! We survived S birthday weekend--always thrown in the middle of the season. She had her cousin and a friend from school over to spend the night. The next morning we headed to the skating rink with 5 kids in tow!!! (Wow, never realized when you have 3 of your own, it doesn't take but just a couple more and you have a heard of kiddos)!!! All the kids including M tried their hand at skating, lets just say that no one quite mastered the rink while we were there. There was a lot of falling, a few tears, soreness and bruising-- but thank God no broken bones. Proof that God answers prayers!!! The minute all the kids got out on the rink and started falling all over the place this mama started praying!!!! Maybe skating with 5 kids ages 3, 5, 7, and 8 was not the best thought out idea. Zach and I both enjoyed the skating, we hadn't skated in over 15 years!!!
The tree is up and we have all really enjoyed it this year. This is the first year in a long time that I have not had to struggle with keeping little hands away from ornaments on the tree. We still have had some tragic ornament accidents, but by now I most of my ornaments are pretty kid proof. (All the fragile ornaments have already been destroyed in the years past). The shopping is coming along and the kids are changing their Christmas lists daily! Santa should make a rule that there should be no last minute toy swapping on the Christmas list!! Ha!
I have really enjoyed the Christmas music at church. I never get tired of those old Christmas hymns we sing over and over. I also like some new Christmas songs too!
My goal is to get my Christmas shopping done in the next couple of weeks and to attempt some baking. We will see how this goes...We still have parties and Christmas cards, school events and lots to do before we sleep and lots to do before we sleep... I love the WHOLE season of Christmas. The business, the excitement, but most of all the celebration of MY SAVIOR'S birth!!!
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