Christmas 2009

It was way passed their bedtime, but right before they went to bed, we got some cookies and carrots for Santa and the reindeer and of course the magic keys for Santa to open the door because we do not have a chimney.


Every year for Christmas Eve we go to the Mejias and have dinner and Santa comes with gifts for everybody. This year Caleb got his favorite toy (nothing after compared) and Calvin got an old photo of him posing with Mike and Matt (the twins) when they were about 5 years old! It brought back such great memories for all of us :) This particular year Santa had a very important message for Caleb and I was glad that he paid attention and knew that Santa was talking directly to him. The message was that he needed to use the bathroom like a big 3 year old and that he was suppose to be a big boy and not forget to go potty! I was laughing the whole time and let me tell you it worked for a little bit!!!!!! But he is getting there, hopefully soon he will decide to just do it on his own!

Waiting for their names to be called.

We had our annual Christmas "Adam" dinner with all the Mckendricks and Merkleys at the Arcadia Building. It was a success as always and the dinner was delicious! We hung out with all the relatives and put on our traditional program in which all the children participated and look so adorable, especially one sheppard and one of the sheep. The kids also had their treasure hunt and found all the candy for all of us.

My boys and Lilly Rae. So adorable! My boys just melt when they see her and Lilly gets super excited when she sees them.

I had to take a picture, we were both wearing a dress and boots!!!

All of the (younger) grandkids (Calvin is the oldest) and great grand kids (Caden is the oldest) at the end of the program. It went quite well and they all look adorable.

So innocent!!!!!!!!

Again at Caden's class, right here they had a book exchanged and he got the Jay Leno book. Once he opened it, he said it loud and clear in front of everybody: "Mom I don't like my book." After we got home dad read the book to him and he was rolling around laughing and decided that he liked the book after all.

When i saw this letter my heart melted! Caden wanted a Nintendo DS so bad this Christmas but we did not think it was a good idea for him to have one. Last summer my mom bought him a leapster (which i love because it is more of an educational game for kids his age) and when we went to Hawaii we lost it :( My mom ended up buying him a new one anyway :) These Nintendo DS are popular but too expensive and if you don't control how much they play it can be bad! Calvin is not a big fan of video games, in other words my Caden did not get this DS for Christmas and he was not so sad about. Maybe when he gets older he might get one.