Birchell Party

We had our annual Christmas Party today with the Birchell's. Always a fun and busy time! After staying up until 1:00 AM we had a pretty relaxed day which involved a three hour nap from everyone in our little family! We woke up and had ten minutes to get to the party. We made it! The Birchell family likes to try new things with food, and it is always hard when feeding that many people (and picky kids). We decided to try a pasta bar. It worked very well, and everything was delicious. The only downer to the meal was I decided to eat downstairs with Brilee... BIG MISTAKE! The kids are crazy, and adults just need to leave them alone. The screaming began when I had to sit at the boy table. The girls were yelling "NO" the boys were yelling "NO".... and neither table really stopped yelling. I survived! We finally put the kids out of their misery and let them open presents. Granny went for it, and made all the grandkids cute pajama's. So fun for the kids. After everyone had opened gifts the kids changed into their jammers, we took pictures, and then the sleepover talks began. We are beginning 2012 with Brilee's first ever sleepover! We are hosting (Bri still needs her Daddy at night) Chazzy and Marley. The girls are playing with the princess's dolls Del gave Brilee for Christmas. The current conversation downstairs includes the little girls princess' going on dates with their boyfriends and Jake saying, "You guys don't have boyfriends. Boys are gross, and have cooties." It's a full circle to the yelling that took place when I ate dinner at the boy table...

I found some pictures of our Cali trip on my phone! YAY! Brilee was a good little traveler. She took lots of naps, sang lots of songs, and watched lots of movies. She also deleted all Jake's app's off his phone. That wasn't so great...

We spent some time exploring Bass Pro Shop in Vegas. It was really neat!

The chipmunks were visiting our hotel.

Josie's house!

The good life! Jammers and cereal at 12:00 in the afternoon.

Jens wrapped Jake a present, and he was sooooo excited about giving it to him. Jens drew him a picture, and then cut it out like a gun. He knew Jake would love it! Donny said he wrapped it a month ago, and has left it under the tree for Jake. He is such a sweet kid. 

Brilee and Marley in their matching pajama's and pillow pets. (Chazzy matches too, but poor girl had to go last in opening!!!)

Brilee and Leeber's adorable puppy Jhett. Such a cute and fun puppy!

All the grandkids...

AWWW the sleepover...