Our week of Christmas in pictures!

DISCLAIMER: Picture overload, and in no particular order...mostly this is for my immediate family to check out, so some pics might be boring to you, but here they are!! :)

Waiting to go open presents! Uncle Rocky, Philip, Mckay and Aunt Kiki
Uncle Rob showing Chase his new toy. I think this is so sweet!
Rocky playing Santa. Holy cow...look at all those presents! Well, there were 13 of us, but STILL!

Carrie, me and Rob. The only sibling shot we got all week. Carrie is 28 weeks pregnant, isn't she adorable???
Just the girls escaped and went shopping (sans kids!) at The Shops at Mission Viejo and got to park in Expectant Mother Parking. She was so excited! lol

Leda and Carter played school in Grandma's preschool SO well together all week. It was really cute.

The boys before they had to say goodbye to a fun week together :(

Spencer received so many fun games. We can't wait to play them!
Leda had a princess Christmas. Here she's wearing her shoes and backpack. She had them both on all Christmas morning.
I made a Savior of the World photo album for my mom and made her cry! hee hee!
Spencer and Carter hanging at our house. I made them quit wrestling for a moment to snap a shot!

Christmas morning. Santa delivers our gifts to grandma/pa's house so they were really less than thrilled to be posing for these pictures. They wanted to hurry and get to Grandmas!
Christmas Eve with my handsome husband. Man, do I love him.
Leda Christmas morning

Our family at the Fashion Island Christmas Tree. A stranger took our picture, which is why my kids all have this "deer in the headlights" look and we had just taken off Chase's hoodie-but his hair makes me laugh! I love it!

The tree at Fashion Island. We had such a fun night doing this as a family. We hit the food court, saw Santa but didn't pay for pictures (we are cheap) and hit the carousel on the way out.

It's been quite the week. To recap (aside from the pictures you saw) first, my brother arrived into town from UVSC, then my sister and her family arrived here from Pleasant Grove, UT. She has two boys (a third on the way) and the cousins have LOVED being together, and reminds me, once again of how much I miss the fact that these cousins don't live close to each other, but don't worry, I won't dwell on that in this post. The next thing we know, we all get sick. The boys (including Aaron) have bad colds, we find out the day before Christmas Eve (thanks to a 2 hour trip to Kids doc) that Leda has two burst ear drums even though her ear tubes had JUST fallen out the week before (how lousy do I feel as a mother to have missed that?), and I was diagnosed with a sinus infection the day after Christmas. Tis the season, I suppose. It was a rough few days, but we were able to squeeze in some fun in between sickness! I felt absolutely lousy on Christmas Day so there wasn't a family picture taken in front of the tree (I already regret that) but oh well, there were enough taken during the week...so here are more than a few for you to enjoy. We hope you had a Merry Christmas!