Our wonderful holidays....

I realize that most of my posts make me sound like the worst mother ever. They are all about destruction, wild kids, and babies eating things that are not exactly good for them. But we have normal calm moments too, I promise!!!

I'm just now getting around to posting about our holidays. We had such a fun time.

We had Christmas Eve at the Baldwin's house. We ate Gumbo and played the White ELephant Game. Then we went over to the Greens for a little while. Kaia sure enjoyed Trisha's cookies!

Dusky had to drive the school van to Utah, and since I didn't want to drive for 22 hours with two kids I decided I would fly and meet him. Tanner said he would go with me so I didn't have to wrestle with two kids for 4 hours on a plane by myself. But I had to go up to Georgia on Christmas day and the only flight was at 11:30am. We didn't get home until really late on Christmas Eve and the girls were totally exhausted. So of course, they picked Christmas Day as their one day in the entire year that they would sleep in.

It was killing me. I love Christmas morning just as much as I did when I was a kid. I have got Dusky up at the crack of dawn every year since we have been married. He thinks I'm crazy but he's a good sport and he goes along with it. I decided that since I was flying to Atlanta with the girls by myself I would let them sleep a little longer. Kaia finally woke up and about 8:30 and we let her open her presents. She talked a lot about Santa Clause but I don't think she really understood what was going on. Except that she kept telling us we have Christmas because of "Baby Jesus"

Finally, we had to wake Sienna up at like 9:00. We opened all of her presents.

Kaia loved her "Lagy Bug" rain coat, boots, and umberella but she was mostly interested in all of Sienna's toys. And Sienna was mostly interested in the wrapping paper and the boxes.

So we flew up to Georgia and spent the rest of the day there while Dusky started his long trek to Utah. It was fun to see my family. Everyone was there except Dusky.

The next day we flew to Utah. We got to spend a week there and it was a blast. None of us were ready to come home. Especially Dusky! We got to see the whole family because Rennie and her kids drove up. I haven't seen them for a really long time so we had a blast. We took the kids and went hiking at Red Cliffs. The girls LOVED it! Kaia would live outside if she could. She's like her dad. And I forgot how nice it was to have babysitters. Dusky and I got to go to the temple, he took me to Cafe Rio, we went to dinner and a movie with all of his family-and this whole time Kaia and Sienna got to play with Tricia, Darren, Chase and Branson. They always have fun over there and they cry when it's time to leave.

Kaia had so much fun with Grandma and Grandpa Goulding. She wanted to swing all day long. Rob took her out to swing with her a lot. It was really cute!

Kaia playing with Branson. What a cute little cowgirl.

We are finally home now and I just got my house put back together and all of the Christmas Decorations put away.

But of course, while I was cleaning Kaia and Sienna got into the pantry and got into the brown sugar. Sienna had a huge chunk that was the size of a softball and she was chowing down on it before I found them.

They are so cute. They are starting to really play together now. Of course, they fight like sisters too. Kaia is little miss bossy. She tells Sienna what to do and when to do it. Today she said "Sienna, go to time out!" Dusky and I were laughing so hard last night because Kaia was standing above Sienna and she started pushing down on her head. So Sienna grabbed Kaia's arm and jerked her down to the ground in one little pull. Kaia face planted it into the ground and Dusky busted up laughing. He told Kaia "I wouldn't pick on your sister.....she's bigger than you are!" I am amazed at how strong Sienna is. My dad always says that she could be a linebacker right now if she wanted to.

Sienna will probably be walking soon. She walks around as long as she's holding on to something. She chatters all day long.

Kaia is a little dramatic right now. She thinks she just HAS TO have/do everything. When I tell her that we are not having oatmeal for dinner because I already made lasagna she says "But I HAVE TO eat oatmeal." Like she is going to die if she doesn't. And when I put her diaper on at night time she says " No Diaper! I HAVE TO pee pee big potty." And when I tell her she can't watch TV she says "I HAVE TO watch it, Bug's Life!"......You get the point. It's really funny.

I love my kids and my husband. They are the biggest thrill of my life. I'm so grateful that we have such wonderful families and that we got to see them ALL over the holidays. It was so much fun. So thanks to all Yall that entertained us!!!!