Christmas Eve...The story of the Christmas bed.....CHRISTMAS....and SNOW storms

I had a lot of fun putting this post together today! There are LOTS of pictures of course. But, it is my blog right. hehe. And my journal :) First off, I want to tell my hubby he is the BEST! I had no idea he was going to make that post, He is so dang sweet....I LOVE YOU CRAIGERY!!!! I am sure I could make a list of 10 things that drive him CRAZY :P Thanks to everyone who made sweet comments. You guys are so great!

Ok, so here is our last couple days....

CHRISTMAS EVE....

This is a family tradition we do every year....NEW PJ's!

Usually every year we are at my Parents for Christmas Eve, but this year we celebrated early before Jake left on his mission.....Soooo, we had our own little family Christmas Eve. We had a YUMMY dinner, watched the Grinch, read the Christmas Story (well more like quickly paraphrased it) and then left treats for Santa. A really fun night! It took the kids about 2-hours to finally go to sleep because they were so excited. We missed you this year Mom & Dad.

Our cute stockings....Ky is Abominable, I'm Santa, Mckay is Rudolf, and Craig is the miner guy. If you have ever seen that old Rudolph show you totally know who these guys are :)

THE STORY OF THE CHRISTMAS BED...
The kids had been sleeping on the floor ever since we moved to this house, So I REALLY wanted to drive to IKEA and get them a bed. I had been trying for a week to borrow someone's truck. We tried 3 different people and everyone was busy or the weather was bad. I was getting frustrated because I wanted the kids to have a bed by Christmas. So, being the freakin' stubborn person I am, I drove to IKEA in our little car by myself and put the dang thing in my car half HANGING OUT THE WINDOW because it didn't fit. I drove the 2-hours home in a huge snowstorm. You had to see it....pretty HILARIOUS! I drove the whole way with my hood on so I wouldn't get covered in the snow that was blowing through the open window. But, the kids got a bed for Christmas and it was TOTALLY worth it!!!! Their little faces were priceless.

Since I did all the work to get the bed it was PAY BACK for Craig! He had to put the thing together on Christmas Eve after the kids went to bed. The darn kids didn't stop getting out of their beds till about 9:45 pm. After 4 1/2 hours and 25 pages of instructions the bed was done!!! The nice thing about IKEA is that there stuff is pretty inexpensive, but the catch is you have to put it together yourself. So we were up till about 3 am.

The finished bed! WAHOO! we picked the kids up while they were sleeping and carried them into our room so we could put their room all together for them.

This is their finished decorated room.

CHRISTMAS DAY....

They ran in their room and were so excited!!! I have never seen anyone "Jump for Joy" before but Mckay TOTALLY was! They both loved their room. Their stockings were laying on their new beds and it took Ky no time at all to empty it out and start eating her candy.

Presents time! Santa always leaves the presents from him on the couch and not under the tree.

His digger truck he has been asking for EVERY day this month! I am sad now that I can't use the -- "be good so Santa will bring you presents" cause it TOTALLY worked! He has been an angel.

Ky got a Cabbage patch doll from Santa.

I wanted them to learn how to give instead of just get presents. So, they picked out a present for each other at the store and here they are giving it to each other....So cute :)

Kylin got a new Tea set that she played with forever!

This Robot was my #1 killer deal on black Friday. Totally worth getting up at 4am for. Normally $130 and I got it for $30! It is the coolest thing ever....shoots dart, turns any direction you want, and it runs....the eyes even glow. Needless to say, Mckay loved it.

This is my little 2-year old with her new phone who looks like she is SIXTEEN!!! and acts like she is too.

Her texting of course.

we drove down to the Howe's after we opened our presents...The kids really LOVE their grandparents so much! They had a lot of fun shoveling. It was great to sit and hang out with them all day and have a nice dinner.

THE DRIVE HOME.....

This was THE WORST snow storm I had ever been in and of course we got to see it first hand. It took us 3 1/2 hours to get home instead of the 1 it normally does. We were going an average of 25 the whole way. We should have stayed the night at the Howe's but didn't realize it was so bad till we had already driven a 1/2 and didn't want to turn around. Instead of Sardine Canyon (which was closed) we went all the way around by way of Tremonton. We got 1/2 way through that little canyon to find a LONG line of cars and a police officer came and told us that they had shut down that road too! So, we were STUCK for an hour till a snow plow came and they re opened the road. We sang with the kids, talked about Christmas and Mckay made some yellow snow.

Thank goodness we borrowed the Howe's SUV with 4-wheel Drive!

It was such a great day! I love my family so much and I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas too!