Christmas Time

Christmas this year, was nice and chilled out for us... we needed a quiet Christmas! It was also our first Christmas at home together and the first time Kayle has had a Christmas Tree! I wrapped up all her presents and hid them in our bedroom so that she would have a surprise on Christmas Day.

Boy... was she surprised!

When she woke up on Christmas Day, she came into our room and just wanted to snuggle with us... we were the ones who told her she could get up and go downstairs and see if there was anything there.

She ran downstairs and looked under the tree... she was so excited by all the presents there, she didn't even notice her stocking by the fireplace! Needless to say, we had fun opening them all!

Kayle also got lots of amazing gifts from our friends... she got this wonderful jacket from our friends at work! She loved it and put it on straight away! I think she has worn it most days since!

She also got these wonderful new PJ's and put them on straight away! She had fun playing with her new Littlest Pet Shop toys that her friend Elijah gave her!

Christmas Day was wonderful... once we were done opening gifts, we got dressed and headed to church. When we got home, we Skyped with Granny and Grandad and opened MORE presents! (Video to follow!)

I cooked us a yummy English Christmas Dinner that we all enjoyed... the full works, roast potatoes, veggies and apple meringue for dessert!

A few hours after we ate our dinner, Kayle and I came down with a horrible tummy bug... it was so terrible. I was in bed for 2 days and poor little Kayle had such a bad tummy for about a week! But, we are better now and are looking forward to New Years Eve at our friends house!

New Christmas Traditions...

I am trying to start some new Kyser Christmas Traditions this year... so, we headed out with our friends to create some!

First stop... Bellevue Square for Snowflake Lane.

We got there a little late so weren't able to get close enough to the stage to watch the main show, but we did get close enough to watch the drummers and get 'snowed' upon. The make snow and fire it off the top of the building and cover the people below! It was so busy, but it was fun!

Once we got done there, we headed to Issaquah to meet Santa! Kayle was so excited to meet him! We rushed to the little groto and went in and said Hi... we didn't get a photo because they were SO expensive, but the kids had a blast seeing him and talking to him.

Next stop... Crazy Christmas Lights!

I downloaded a list of houses from the internet that are famous for having crazy lights. We got all loaded up in the car and headed out to our first one.

Pretty crazy....

Onto the next one... this house was out of this world. It has INSANE lights all over the house and garden and even had a set of reindeer that lit up as they 'jumped' over the road. The lights were flashing on and off to some cool Christmas music. The kids had a great time.

This was our last house for the night because we had 2 tired little kiddies on our hands! We made our last stop at Starbucks for toilet breaks and then headed home.

We had a really fun night and will certainly do it again!

Photo Shoot...

We were given a wonderful Christmas present this year by my boss, Toby. She was having a photo shoot done of her kids for Christmas presents and said that Kayle and I could also have our photos taken to give as a Christmas gift to Jason.

It was fun to have it done because I have very few photos of Kayle and I because I am the one who takes the photos!