Merry Christmas!!

Wow! I can't believe that Christmas has come and gone already! We have had a lot of fun Christmas parties this past week, so here are some of the highlights.



Last Thursday we had a small family party, because my brother Brent and his family were not going to be with us on Christmas. Xander was able to open up a few gifts and was really excited about it :)

On Saturday, we had our annual Hillam Family Christmas Party. (My mom's side)

Mara and Conli were matching so I had to take pics.

Xander and Mara have been having fun lately making funny faces. My sister was able to catch some good ones!

We were lucky enough to have the Man in Red come to the party and give the kids an early present. Mara freaked out and wouldn't sit on his lap. She cried and cried, but she did say "Thank You" and give him a high five!! Xander did great, as always. He loves Santa!

On Sunday the kids were wearing their new outfits from Mana. So I had to get some pics of them together. Here are the best ones.

Sunday night, we went to Pat's parents house and had a family get together. It was nice to have (almost) everyone there. I didn't get any really good ones of the family, but I did sneak in and find the boys (JR, Doug, Morri and Pat) playing Foosball!!

Christmas Morning!

Mara got a Newborn Cabbage Patch Kid from Santa and Xander got a way cool Baby Jaguar and the new Cars Mater-national video game for the Wii. They both got alot of fun things from all of our family. Thank you! Xander for sure had a Lightning McQueen Christmas! LOL

My mom got Mara a baby stroller. She loves it so much! When we opened it we put her new doll in it for her. She walked out of the room and went into the kitchen with it. When she came back in the room, the baby doll was gone and her bear was in the stroller!!! She is so funny! This has been the story for the past few days. She hasn't gotten attached to the baby yet, so bear rides in the stroller a lot!

My family has a tradition, that after we are done opening all the presents, all the kids hide under the wrapping paper. The my dad would video tape the mess and say "Where are all the kids?" then we would all jump up and throw the paper everywhere!! This is one of my favorite things about Christmas. So of course we do it with the grand kids :)

Here is our "mess". I promise, the kids are under there!!!!