The Christiansen Family

christmas jammies!!

I love traditions. One of the traditions we have with my family is Christmas jammies. So Christmas Eve we headed out to my moms & did our little jammie exchange.

love my darling kiddos!

:: christmas jammies::

here's the crew all cleaned up and ready for Santa to come!

little man's first Christmas was pretty magical ::

love him. even with the sucker bribery evidence dripping off his chubby double chin ♥

this year we met up on Christmas Eve for the Christiansen gift exchange. It was a fun night full of lots of laughs. It was the perfect way to start off our Christmas celebrations & helped the kiddos get tired out before Santa's visit that night!

oreo's

the week of Christmas I was busy baking & wrapping ::
in effort to keep Kashton content, I bribed him.

let's just say oreo's were a hit. a huge hit.

love my chunky monkey. ♥

deck the halls

Just about as soon as we could manage, once Thanksgiving was over :: Christmas prep was in full swing in our house! This year we let Jackobi pick out her very own tree for her room. And yep, you guessed it ... pink was her choice hands down. It turned out to be a pretty cute addition to her room! {and Kashton only managed to sneak two candy canes off her little tree the entire month of december!} & when I say sneak I mean sneak! he's such a little turkey! He would crawl in, grab one and go hide while he tried to eat it! We're going to have our hands full with this one!

When he wasn't busy stealing candy canes, Kashton's absolute favorite thing was our Christmas lights. From the moment I plugged them in he was in love. I normally wouldn't mind too much, but he was constantly trying to eat them (as he does everything) :: so it was fun keeping him away from them each day. :)

but how do you resist this face!??

in the mix of things we managed to celebrate Jackobi's favorite

two year old's birthday :: happy birthday hadley!!

dressed as princesses & making crowns ::

what more could a girl ask for??

A few of us went to The Nutcracker :: it was such a fun afternoon and I absolutely loved taking Jackobi. It was so magical for her. She loved the costumes and dancing, it will be a fun little tradition for years to come!

We had lots of fun at Nate's work party this year. There was a clown making balloon animals :: that was definitely the highlight of Jackobi's night.

Kashton was less than impressed with his first encounter Santa.

Jackobi wouldn't come within ten feet.

Our December was definitely filled with candy canes and christmas trees ::


::friends christmas party::

we hope you had as much fun

decking the halls as we did!

gobble, gobble

We had such a great Thanksgiving this year! In an attempt to keep things simple, we just went to Nate's parents house on Thanksgiving. It was such a relaxing day filled with family, fun and lots of food!!

LOVE my little turkeys!!

Nate had to work Thanksgiving night (boo) :: but my sister was nice enough to come and keep us company while he was gone! The kids were both wired from candy, but tired from turkey so it was sure nice to have an extra set of hands :)

The day after Thanksgiving is marked with the traditional "Caring and Sharing" at the Rupert Civic Center and the lighting of the square. It was cooolllld, but we had a blast. It's such a great way to kick off the holiday season!