Christmas Pictures!

Christmas eve and we are ready to drive to Grandma's house!

Opening PJs, Christmas eve.

Thankfully Jessica had her camera out to capture all the moments!  :)  Cute baby girl!

Christmas morning!

Dave read How Murray Saved Christmas to the kids on Christmas eve.  It's my favorite Christmas book.  Since Dave's Dad's name is Murray, this was really a Hunt family tradition.

The kids were sick, but that didn't stop us from doing nails and having fun.

This little goose slept through all of Christmas morning--her FIRST Christmas morning.  I think, though, that she doesn't feel cheated in the least.  She got new PJs, too, after all.

Opening PJs.

A baby pirate!

Stocking massacre.

Uncle Chandler helped Jonny open his PJs.  They are buddies.  :)

Story time.

We acted out the nativity.  Jonny was Joseph, of course.

Stocking party!

It snowed arrived right as we were arriving.  It was so pretty!

Grandma is the best at doing nails.  :)

The big night!  All the loot.  And there was a LOT of loot with all of us there.  Audrey, Jane, and Claire were asleep right behind that couch back there, and when we were putting all the gifts out, Audrey woke up.  Oops!  She wasn't too bent out of shape.

Arrrg!  Jonny got some pirate dress-ups among his gifts.  Darcy thinks they're just what she's always wanted.

The "wobot" jammies that he loves so much.

Now he really looks like a wobot.  Look at these cute babies!!

Can you see the tree?  :)

Audrey was Mary, and the littler kids played assorted shepherds and kings and angels.  It was a full cast.

Allison being regal.

The "big" gift surprise from Grandma and Grandpa was a cool karaoke machine to use at their house.  the kids (ehem, and the adults) had a blast!!  The girls are all decked out in the dress-ups we got our kids for Christmas.  Best gift ever!

Pretty nails!  Plus she got a new watch and necklace!

Everyone had a turn singing Let It Go once . . . or five times.

Me and Lula.  She's so cute!  All these kids are so adorable, I can't stand it.

Lula supervising Darcy's crawling practice.

Too bad Jonny didn't get in the picture.  Mom made the kids aprons!  They were SO excited, and they wear them all the time.  They're great for wearing on Sunday during lunch so their clothes don't get messy.

Keeping the kids occupied on cold days when they took turns being sick was a challenge, but one we were up to!  They colored a lot, and we even made little paper plate mail boxes and wrote notes and colored pictures to each other.

The view from the back yard.  So pretty!

These last three are snapshots from the iPad that Audrey took of my siblings.  :)

Pre-Holiday Break

Selfies!  Audrey's selfies are so adorable.  :)

But Jonny's selfies might be cuter.  It's a tie.

This girl.  I was trying to get her to sit in front of me so I could do her hair.  She was asking me questions to stall: "What is your favorite ice cream?  What is your favorite thing to do? . . . Who is your favorite baby?"  Sneaky!  But look at that face!

What a sweet big sister, holding the littlest sister.  These two made my heart melt.

Darcy and her little twin, Henry!  These two are the cutest.

Darcy on Thanksgiving Day wearing her "First Thanksgiving" onsie!  Jonny wasn't big enough for it on Thanksgiving, so Darcy is the winner-winner-turkey-dinner.  :D  (I know I'm nerdy.)

Kiddie-isms!

--I told Jonny I was going to put him down for a nap and he yelled, "No, no, no!  I sweeped all night!!"

--Claire said, "I'm tired of being a human."  I asked her what she wanted to be instead and she said, "a mom." 

--Claire said, "I know what Darcy's job is.  Pooping and peeing . . . and sometimes she has gas."

Jonny says . . .

"Ooooh, come ooooon!"  (Learned, no doubt, from his bigger cousin, Allison.)
"Awwww, Daaaad!"  His moments of disappointment are actually some of his most adorable.
"Stop cocking me!!"  Translation: Stop copying me.
Incidentally, copying people is his new way to tease lately.  His target: Claire, which is karma at it's finest.

Jane's Toast

This morning Jane made everyone toast and set it out on the table at each child's chair, along with their "moon sand" boxes, which I had promised they could play with today.  The only problem is that she used sour cream as butter.  Which is probably not such a big deal.  Is that not the cutest?  She's such a sweetheart.

Our Holiday Break

We are back from spending the Christmas break with my family!  We drove up there on Christmas Eve, just missing a snow storm both here and there, and only getting lost once.  The kids had a little trouble falling asleep, as might be expected, but Audrey woke up while we were putting gifts out and saw us.  I don't think she's any worse for wear.  Everyone woke up and gathered around the tree and the mountain of gifts and we passed them out and opened them, ooo-ing and aaahh-ing over each one.  Mom and Dad really went all out.  I think I need to be better at giving gifts.  I always think of things I want to get people, and then I forget or decide it's too restrictively expensive.  And if I decide to make something, I never actually get around to making it . . . It's 2015, now, though.  And I have resolved to do better about gift giving and birthdays.  But more on that later.

Mom planned some really great food while we were there.  Everything was so delicious.  The guys went out, the girls went out, we all got a stomach bug, we played a lot of games, we watched movies, we played with our new doodads.  The kids played in the snow and did crafts.

Mom and Dad got Jonny a little red wagon, the girls got new dress-ups.  I think they were happy with their gifts.

I think we took pictures!  I know Jessica did, so I might have to get those from her soon.  My computer says it's full and I can't put new pictures on it right now.  SO until I get these current ones all squared away on the blog and moved off to the other hard drive, I'll bring in the new.

I'm just skimming the surface.  Darcy is freaking out and the kids are fighting over four messy batches of "moon sand" and I am supposed to be getting lunch and homework done and it's already noon.  The errands for today might not make it.  :S