Merry Christmas!

I love the week of Christmas! It's always busy and full of things to do. Also, the kids get to wear their new Christmas clothes to church! Skylar will NOT let me put Slade in a cute sweater, so he got some new shoes and pants, but wasn't in the mood for a picture. Daisy is always up for a photo shoot and this is her new dress and shoes.

Kleven Family Christmas Party

Every year my Dad's side of the family gets together and has a huge dinner party. We meet at a church because there are so many people! We always have dinner, a program and then Santa!

Another tradition we do is sing the CHRISTMAS song. We have a child hold up a letter and we sing the song...C is for the Christ child... you get the idea. Slade was so excited to be able to hold a letter this year! He was so cute up there, waving to us and smiling big. I told Skylar that he is going to be our actor. I'm sure you can image Skylar's response to that, those of you who know him :)

Kleven, Slade and Ethan

Daisy enjoying the program!

My almost 15 year old brother was asked to be the donkey for the Nativity Scene. He did great :) but was somewhat embarrassed I think.

Oh, Santa's Elf's! It takes a special kind of man to be able to wear those outfits :) Can't wait for it to be Skylar's turn! Haha!! Yeah, that won't happen.

SANTA!! He always arrives at the end and hands out presents to each child.

Waiting in line for Santa! She is very unsure of this Santa...probably because he acted a lot like her Grandpa!! Heehee!

I had to post this picture because of my sparkly earring!

The Elf's threw suckers to all the kids while we waited for Santa. Who knows how many Slade ended up eating...

I love that Slade is perfectly okay with Santa this year and Daisy is so scared! I have a picture of myself on Santa's lap around the same age as Daisy and I'm doing the same thing! I think Santa was trying to let her in on his little secret to see if she would calm down. It worked for about 2 seconds and then she really freaked out.

Stock Family Gift Exchange

Skylar's side of the family got together for a dinner and gift exchange. Because Skylar's parents and two siblings live in Utah, it was just us and his two sisters and their families. We had soup, rolls and veggies for dinner and an awesome dessert of ice cream, brownies and hot fudge! Thanks Erin!

This is the picture we captured with our camera before it died. Good thing Erin had a camera handy and was able to take a good one. She did send it to me, I'm just not quite sure how to get it from my email to the blog. I'm sure its easy to do... things like that usually are.

This is Kinley refusing to be a part of the picture! She was quite funny and did NOT want her picture to be taken. Little does she know, Uncle Derek cropped her in the picture and off it was sent to the grandparents!

It was a fun night with everyone and we even got to play Wii for the first time! I played a super awesome game of target shooting and lost the first round to Maddie, who is 7, but won the second time around! We got Skylar to play tennis and he said he actually enjoyed it! He also played a bull or horse riding game, not sure which, and didn't do so great :) It was really fun!

Okay, super random, but I painted Daisy's nails this morning and put a flower on as well. She LOVES it and keeps showing me and saying how pretty they are. I really enjoy having a girl, its so much FUN!


Merry Christmas to you all! I hope you are enjoying the Holidays!