Miss Curly

When I don't touch Kresee's hair after her shower...Meaning--not blow dry it...It gets so curly...I know the longer it continues to grow, I'm sure the curl will go away...But it is such a mess and so stinking cute at the same time...

Then she wanted to show me how she can do her front rolls all over our bed...one of these times she will roll right off the bed...but she won't listen to me:)

Mr. Skater

I hate to admit it, but I figured my sister was just being nice when she said that Kohen was pretty darn good for his first time skating...I envisioned him glued to the wall, hanging on for dear life or holding onto us the entire time....But she was right...He did great and never even needed our help...Just went on his own the whole time....

Cool Kerry...We laughed because we haven't skated (much less on quads) in years and years...We put them on and thought "Oh my goodness, this isn't going to be good"...You felt a little funny and I just knew one of us were going to bust it...But after a few rounds, I guess it's like riding a bicycle...It didn't take long for it to come back to us....

Kohen was excited about Limbo....I had to laugh because for the first several rounds, he didn't even have to bend down...He just skated on through....

If he got going, he did well bending down and not falling...I was impressed!

He didn't have enough momentum and fell under the stick, so he was out:)...He made it to the last 5 kids though...

The main thing he cared about was getting to race....He told us about it the entire 2 hrs we were there...It's for 9 & under...So it was probably a 9 yr old boy and an 8 yr old boy...Then little 4 yr old Kohen out there...Hey, he got 3rd place!!

We had a great time...Kerry and I can't wait to take him back....I even won the cone contest thing...Where they keep moving the cones farther apart...It was down to Kerry and I...And, of course, I beat him (haha)....

Christmas Evening

Savanah and Tatum brought their nail stuff....Kerry and Kresee were their clients at Nana and Papa's house....

Aren't Kerry's nails beautiful??

Kresee LOVES getting her nails painted...She will sit so still and just let you do whatever...She loves to blow on them....She even got to pick out some stickers to put on her nails....

After her nails were done, she got a tatoo on her face...She thought it was neat for about 10 seconds....

Then she wouldn't leave it alone..."off, I want it off"...So her little cheek was red for awhile where I scrubbed it off!

Kohen didn't get his nails painted, but did get an iCarly tatoo on his hand:)

Kohen got all his T-ball gear---bat, balls, bag, and t-ball stand...He's ready to start playing in the Spring and he can't wait....

That night Kohen put on his skates before bedtime for a picture...He got some new roller skates from Grammie...He really wants a skating party for his 5th birthday so I figured the kid needed to learn how to roller skate....

Christmas Morning

After playing with the cousins all afternoon, Kohen and I baked Santa some cookies that evening...Of course, he has to have a couple or 10 before bedtime...
Kresee loves them too....BUT she was sooooo tired....

She couldn't keep from closing her eyes while trying to eat her cookies...poor thing:)

The kids didn't get up too early...Kohen was already in our bed...He has a habit of getting up about 6 and walking down the hall to crawl in our bed and goes right back to sleep...

I let him go and check out Santa before Kresee got up....Santa brought him a new TV for his room (his current one was so old and never really worked) and a set of Florida Gator football players...He loves that team as much as OU...
Kresee literally just woke up and I make her stand in front of her stuff...She has no idea what's going on but was great for a picture...Santa brought her a princess tent/tube thing and some shape puzzle box...

Kohen immediately needed to start playing with his Florida Gators....

Kresee got in that tent and had a ball....

But now it was time to open the stockings....Stockings were always my favorite thing growing up...My mom gave us the best stockings...So I enjoy buying for the kids stockings....

He got some new soccer guys to go along with his 3 million football guys and set of hockey guys...

Santa brought the kids recorders for their stocking...I don't know what Santa was thinking:)

Kohen got lots of new books in his stocking...Kresee got him some too...This kid can't get enough books..

He got a new remote control helicopter (like Daddy)...He loves flying it and does a great job...

She got a bathtime set for her baby dolls...She loves making hers sit on her potty so I thought this little ones for babies was too cute...

Loves Elmo and Play-Dough....

Playing with her new coffee maker and all the rest of the stuff on the couch that she got from her previous Christmases!

Kerry eating his cinnamon rolls...Our Sunday tradition that we also have on Christmas morning....Kerry gets a new coffee mug and mouse pad with the kids pictures on it every year....

Darth Vader:)...I got this super cheap right after Halloween and put it up for Christmas...

We played all day at the house before heading out to my Nana and Papa's that afternoon to open more gifts and eat dinner....

Christmas Eve--Afternoon

After morning presents, we all got dressed and headed over to Meme and Papa's house for our Mexican food lunch...It's my favorite--Pioneer enchiladas and then everything to go with it....Yummy!
Kresee got an etch-a-sketch...Kerry made a very elaborate design that he worked very hard on:)

Kohen got a Star Wars game that you just plug into the TV...I didn't even know about them...I knew the haircut place had something like that, but never really payed any attention...Well he loves it and has had a great time playing his video game....

Meme and Papa

Kresee was ready to go...Way past nap time...So she just laid on the living room floor....

Christmas Eve--Morning

Christmas Eve morning is always spent over at the Maroney's house...We wake up and leave in our PJ's to head to Maw and Papa's....Maw fixes breakfast and then we open presents...At some point, Santa always shows up to visit the kiddos before he heads back to the North Pole to get his sleigh ready....

Kohen got some more football helmets...He has the Big XII and plays with them constantly...now he has the NFL set....

"HO HO HO" was what we heard while opening presents...In walks Santa and the girls ran to Papa:)..

Jaxson, Santa and Kohen

Kresee did not want to sit in his lap which was no surprise....She hated even being this close to him....

She did give him a high five (which I was surprised)

Since Kresee and Kenzie were NOT interested in Santa...This was the closest thing we could get to a cousin picture with Santa....Yes, Kresee always has her hand in my shirt for some reason:)

Family picture with Santa Claus

Kohen cracks me up because he talks all this talk...Then Santa shows up and for the 3rd year in a row, he barely says a word...Something comes over him and he can't talk!!!!...If only that happened more often:)

I got the boys those paper jams guitars...They really thought they were rock stars...Kohen really likes it...Kresee loves it too....

Kresee got more stuff in some purses...She "painted" her nails over and over...

We then got all ready to head to Kerry's grandparents house for lunch and afternoon gift opening....