Christmas Morning

This year we spent the night at my mom's house Christmas Eve and of course Jonah was the first one up bright and early and ready to open presents.

Lea was a little more groggy but just as eager to see what gifts she had under the tree.

Tradition was always that my dad passed out the Christmas presents to everyone, but this year we let Jonah do most of it.

Our family on Christmas morning

Dan sporting the noodle necklace that the kids made for each of us.

Let the gifts begin...

Yay, I got my homemade applesauce I wanted! Thanks Marie!

We gave Lea and Jonah each their own Book of Mormon.

Nana made beautiful blankets for Lea and Jonah. Thanks!

Cheryl and Mom...awwww!

Steven had our family for Christmas this year and here is Lea thanking him with a hug! We love you Steve!

Yay! I've been wanting these pots and pans for like 2 years!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Christmas Eve and other Pre-Christmas Festivities

Cute Christmas outfits!

Lea and Jonah are happy kids so excited for all of the Christmas festivities. They are best friends and they love playing together.

My little cowgirl!

Jonah's 4th birthday was December 23rd. Happy Birthday Jonah!

I prepared homemade cinnamon rolls on Christmas Eve so they would be ready to stick in the oven first thing Christmas morning - making the house smell irresistibly good while we open our Christmas presents. Yum! Thanks Sonja for the super cute apron.

Below are pictures of the Christmas Eve party we have every year with my extended family at my mom's house!

James and Cheryl - cousins :)

Tyler and Aleena - cousins :)

Grandma Urrutia passing out See's candy for Christmas gifts to everyone!

Aleena and Cheryl - sisters :)

Carly, Baby Nahlia, Mark & Angie (newlyweds) and Erin - more cousins :)

Angela and Aleena - two pregnant bellies :)

Jonah biting Santa's chocolate head off...mmm!
Yummy Christmas Eve!

Oh how I love Christmastime!

A very kind friend of the family dressed up as Santa this year and surprised Lea and Jonah with an early visit. They were so excited! Lea kept asking me if this was the real Santa. I told them that Santa must have know we were missing Grandpa this year so he chose Lea and Jonah extra special to visit them. This made sense to them and they thoroughly enjoyed having him come.

And of course they loved getting a present!

December 15th was my dad's birthday. He would have been 53 years old. It's so weird to think he will never be 53 or 54 ect. It was an emotional day for me. I miss him a lot. My mom and Dan and the kids and I went to Red Robin (my dad's favorite place to eat) to celebrate and think of him. My sister and brother in Provo, went to Red Robin there that night too.

This is a picture of the fabulously fun gingerbread house that lea and Jonah made with their Grandma!

Boyer Family Christmas Carolers

Friday night our family held the tradition started by the Leighton family when Aleena was a little girl of caroling and bringing goodies to our neighbors. It was a lot of fun and the neighbors appreciated it. It was a good way to get to know our new neighbors better. We kept it simple and just sang Jingle Bells. For the occasion we made jingle bell necklaces for the kids to jingle during the song! It was fun!

Here's one of the plates of goodies we made for our neighbors!

Lea holding one of our cats!

Here are the kids with their jingle bell necklaces. Cuties!

WE LOVE CHRISTMASTIME!!!

Trimming the Tree and Decorating for Christmas

Here is our Nativity Scene and below is another one of my favorite decorations.

Thursday December 11th we got our Christmas Tree!!!

Stan and Roxanna (Dan's awesome parents) gave us a train this year to put around our tree! We love it!

Marshmallow Snowmen

Well, we don't have snow in California so we make our snowmen out of marshmallows! Last week preschool was at my house and this was a fun activity we did.

So cute! I could only take a picture of the girls with their snowmen because the boys ate theirs too fast.

This is what Jonah's looked like minutes after making his snowmen. He devoured those marshmallows!