Home for the Holidays!!

I love the Holidays! I love being in my home for the Holidays! And I love having family come visit during the Holidays! Truly this was the best Christmas ever! We hosted Christmas in our home for my parents, my brother Scott and his wife Lorisa and their darling baby Brooklyn! It was so fun laughing, playing with Baby Brooky, eating yummy food, and just being together.

Ty being funny with Papa!

Mimi brought a fun art project for the kids to paint.

They all had their own Christmas tree to paint. It's interesting the different levels of painting. Mara did an orange tree with different colors here and there but stayed in the lines...

Caleb did every color in the rainbow--did not stay in the lines and didn't care about Christmas colors...

And Ty was very careful staying in the lines, made sure his tree was green!! It took Ty quite a while to finish his tree since he was so careful!

The weather outside was NOT frightful! In fact it was delightful! We took Brooklyn for a walk around the block and enjoyed the sunshine! Scott & family must have brought the nice sunny California weather with them!

This picture cracks me up: Caleb and Brook checking out the tree--Brook takes a ball off the tree and Caleb hangs it up higher so she can't reach it! Brook was fascinated by the Christmas tree and Caleb made sure she didn't brake anything!

The best Christmas present ever: Service!! Our sweet family worked and slaved away to help us on our house while they were visiting! We had a door party and installed all new doors in our house!

Papa is Mr. Fix-it and was so handy! He fixed all the things in my house that were driving me nuts...well not all of them! But he made a dent! He put a new toilet-paper holder in our new bathroom! He fixed my light on my bed so the fan would turn off! He put grouted the tile in the bathroom....Thank You dad for the nice Christmas present! You can come back any time and keep working on my 'Honey Please Do List!!'

Mimi and her girls! Weren't we surprised when we saw Brook in her purple pajamas! Mara has the some ones! Match-match double-match!!

This was only the first day with family...there is more! Lots more fun with family!!