Christmas morning

What a wonderful Christmas we had this year. The kids were so excited and we always enjoy getting to spend the day with family. Camden woke up at 4:30am and came running into our room. He was so excited having seen that Santa had come. He let Chris and I know that Santa had been there so we let him go check out what he could see without touching anything. He was awake for about 2 hours and finally fell back to sleep while trying to watch the clock until it said 6:45 so he could wake up Aubrey. She woke up around 8 and then we all got up!

This year the kids got each other gifts which was fun for them to pick out and buy for each other. Here Camden is opening the gift Aubrey got him. They have really had fun this break playing together. Most of their friends have gone out of town, so they have spent almost all of their time with each other, and they really do play so well. I love that they are close and can enjoy playing together. This is such a cute picture to me. Aubrey was opening up her gift from her great Aunt Phyllis and Uncle Joe. It was an American Girl dog, that she loved. You can see how excited she was, after all the anitcipation of what was in that little red box with the pretty white bow! Both kids were happy and excited about every single gift they recieved- it was so fun to watch them.

After opening gifts you must play!! I loved how Camden sat right by Chris watching him put some of his toys and legos together. I think Chris was having as much fun as Cam!

After this we went to MiMi and PawPaw's for more gifts and family fun. We are lucky to have so many people that love us! After Egg McColliers and some deicious grilled duck, we headed out to see most of the extened Mokry family. The kids had fun with cousins and we enjoyed more family time.

We have definately had a wonderful year and Christmas. We are most grateful for our God and that Jesus was born on Christmas day. We try to make sure that is the focus and we celebrate the true meaning. How blessed we all are that we are saved and loved by Jesus! We are thankful for all of our family and the time we get to spend with them. As the new year begins we look back fondly on this past year and hope for another wonderful year in 2011!

2 days until Christmas!!!

We are definately in a festive spirit here at the Mokry house! The kids are having so much fun in anticipation of Christmas day. I am trying to make sure the true meaning of Christmas is not lost so we talk a lot about Jesus' birth and what that means for us. We are all excited to bake Jesus a birthday cake to celebrate His birthday and the most important gift of all!

For the last two days we have been working on gingerbread houses. Here is Aubrey's before she finished it.

And here is Camden working on his!
Camden has also been pretending to be "the elf on the shelf" just like our elf Peter! Ha! He actually looks a lot like Peter. Yesterday Camden asked Peter to bring him a cookie from the north pole, and he did! This morning both kids woke up to find big, cute cookies on a stick in their stockings. It was really cute because we were still in bed and heard Camden say "yeeess!" in the living room before running in our room to tell us :)

And this morning the kids gathered acorns for tomorrow night. A couple of years ago Chris and the kids started a little tradition of putting acorns on the sidewalk and stomping on them so the reindeer could eat them. I mentioned that we are going to be busy tomorrow so the kids gathered some acorns up so they will be ready! I made some hot chocolate for them the enjoy since it is actually a little chilly out today- yay for a chilly Christmas!

Christmastime Fun

School is out and we have had some fun. Although these pictures are out of order, you can still see what we have been doing!

Gigi took us to Build-a-Bear to make any animal we wanted. Aubrey and Jules chose a winter bear- Aubrey got a cute outfit and ice skates for her bear. Camden and Joseph chose Rudolph with a scarf and hat.
Here are Jules and Aubrey washing and brushing their bears-

Here is Aubrey with her teacher at their Christmas party on Friday!
And here Aubrey is at one of the stations during the party with some of her classmates.

After school on Friday we had a neighbor friend over and decorated cookies- yum!

December

We have had a busy and fun December so far, and it isn't even Christmas yet :) Aubrey has a cast on her left arm after falling off the monkey bars the day after Thanksgiving. She was at the park with her cousins having a great time, when suddenly the fun came crashing down! She broke her radius and has a nice pink cast to help it heal!

Here she is at the Georgetown Downtown stroll showing her crazy good hula hoop skills! It was a fun day, and we even saw the real Santa. Both kids were able to tell him what they wanted, so we are anxiously waiting to see if he brings those things.

Here you can see Camden dressed at "Jesus' dad"- Joseph. He wore this for a few days- it was pretty cute!

Aubrey also lost her first tooth! This tooth has been loose for months, and the big tooth already grew in behind it!! She did not want this tooth to fall out- she even wrote a note to the tooth fairy to see if she could keep it. Luckily the tooth fairy left her four dollars and the tooth :) And here is one more of Camden- my tired little elf!
Tomorrow is the last day of school and we are excited to have some fun family time to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas!

2010 Christmas Card

Here is our Christmas Card! Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy New Year!

Christmas is coming.........

Wow, nine days until Christmas! I have lots of updates with pictures that I will be getting up ASAP. For now I'm off to lunch for my birthday with Camden, Alicia and Sam! I promise to get posting later today :)