Christmas at Jim & Sharon’s

Saturday December 21st we celebrated Christmas at Kyle’s parents house. His sister Mel & her husband Steve couldn’t be home the week of Christmas, so we celebrated early. It worked out perfect because we could spend more quality time with family and didn’t have to try to fit in 2-3 family gatherings in one day.

We started out the day with a delicious brunch and the photo booth fun!

Adelyn & Aunt Laura had some fun play time…

…while Avery got in a nap with Grandma Sharon.

Love Avery’s big smile with Aunt Mel in this one!

After a couple of good naps we started the gift opening!

Avery would rip one piece of wrapping and then just play with it so he got lots of help from Mommy & big sissy! We didn’t mind!

Adelyn was very meticulous with her gifts and ripped the paper off in tiny pieces!

Daddy was very excited about his new Under Armour gloves. Grandpa & Grandma spoiled Adelyn with lots of fun princess dress up items! She loves to play dress up!

Laura made Steve an awesome bowling pin with both of his fav teams!

Mel got a can…of $$ and a gift card! We had a little fun giving money this year!

Jim got a $10 roll of dimes…taped with packing tape!

Adelyn loved spending the afternoon playing with all her new dress up accessories and dresses!

Adelyn did a little shopping in Grandma’s kitchen!

We had a great day celebrating this wonderful season with family!

Bangert Family Photo Booth

Last year I hit up the Dollar Spot at Target and Dollar Tree and got all kinds of fun photo booth props. We used them at my family Christmas in Omaha. SO VERY FUN!! I thought it’d be fun to take it to Kyle’s family Christmas this year…same props, different family, different background, and lots of fun! Enjoy the fun pics!

Elf on the Shelf: Part 2

If you missed the first part of our elf on the shelf click here. His name is Bubbles and this is what he was up to before Christmas!

One morning Adelyn found him in the fridge with her cup all decorated. She wasn’t very pleased what he did to her cup, but she thought it was quite funny that he was in the fridge.

Another morning we found him under the mistletoe with chocolate Hershey kisses!

Bubbles reminded us to brush our teeth!

Another morning we found that he had built a red & green tower out of Adelyn’s Legos!

The morning of Adelyn’s 1/2 birthday we found that Bubbles had decorated for the occasion! Silly Bubbles (this is what Adelyn usually said when she found him, ha!)

One Saturday morning we woke up to see that Bubbles has gotten us all the ingredients to make sugar cookies!

SuperBubbles! {for anyone who knows us knows about SuperMan at our house!}

And the last morning he was in my nativity set kneeling by baby Jesus, the real reason for the season. We sure had fun with this and are excited to make it an annual tradition in our family!

Santa

Great Grandma met us at the mall to go see Santa one evening {12.14.13}. I thought for sure I’d have two crying babies in our Santa picture this year, but they surprised me. Adelyn took a little time and ended up warming up to Santa and told him she wanted a Minnie Mouse tricycle and Avery didn’t even cry! I was SHOCKED! They both look a little stunned or not impressed, but I still like it!

Just for fun…here’s last year! ha! Get us outta here! {I don’t blame them…he was a little creepy!}

Christmas Baking

Adelyn loves to help me in the kitchen so I knew she would enjoy a little Christmas baking. We made sugar cookies one weekend – Bubbles {our elf on the shelf} actually brought the supplies for us!

She did really well and was gentle when picking up the dough! Proud mama right here!

When it came to frosting she was more interested in eating the cookies than frosting them. That was ok though! We had fun!