Christmas is FINALLY over!

I am happy to say that the big fat man has gone back to the North Pole for another year! I tried really hard not to be such a scrooge this year! I put up lots of decorations, I tried to do Christmas things with my family, I even tried to be a little bit more understanding about Santa. I still don't think I really am a Christmas person, though. After it is all said and done, I now have to spend at least a day putting all of this Christmas crap away, and now have to find places for all of the STUFF that we got for our NON-Christmas. For not getting much for Christmas, our kids were sure packed like sardines in the Burban on the way home! We survived and for any of you that we spent one of the 6, yes 6 Christmas parties with, we are now taking reservations for our house for next year! I am pooped out from going from place, to place, to place. So if any of you would like to spend Christmas with the Chambers family next year in sunny St. George, get your reservations early! I am sure I will change my mind by next year, but for now it sounds really nice to not have to travel next year!

The Polar Express

Kindergarten had their annual Polar Express party, this morning. It was a lot of fun. Karlin really enjoyed decorating her box for the train parade and wearing her pajamas to school. They had a lot of fun centers for the kids to do. I was just glad that I got to go and take some pictures of her. Kamren was at preschool and Daxton was taking a nap in his stroller. It was kind of nice to actually be able to concentrate on just one child, even if it was only for an hour.

Who says all Stepmoms are evil!!!!

So only in a blended family would THIS conversation happen. Today, my girls were fighting over who was going to be their little friend, Taggerts' Mom! I intervened by saying, "One of you can be the Mom, and the other one can be the Step Mom"! That seemed to solve all of the problems, and the next thing you know Taggert was getting bossed around by his "Mom" and "Step Mom"! I was laughing!

Alvin and the Chipmunks

We decided to take the kids to the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie for FHE last night. It was way too cold out there to brave the live nativity at Tuachan, so I thought this might be a little bit better-at least we would be inside! I kind of thought I must be going crazy to even think this would be a good idea with Daxton around! The boy can't even sit still for 5 minutes, let alone a couple of hours. We decided to take his carseat in, thinking that the longer we could keep him contained in that, the better it would be for us. Well, boy were we right!!! We put him on one of the chairs in his carseat and he stayed there THE ENTIRE MOVIE!!! I was shocked! Tony and I didn't even want to look at him, for fear he would see us and want us to get him out! He watched about the first hour and fifteen minutes of the movie and then fell asleep. It was amazing and I was in complete shock! The other girls loved the movie also. It has a lot of singing and dancing in it, and they were all dancing in there seats and in the aisle. What a great, and unexpected night of FHE!!!

And.......He's off!!!!!

Somebody, please, have me committed, right now!!!! My son is going to push me over the edge! He has been flirting with this whole walking thing for about a month and a half, but I really wasn't prepared for the day when I would turn around and Daxton would be walking towards me all the way from his bedroom into the kitchen where I am unloading the dishwasher. The boy looks like a victim of abuse with all of the knots that boy has on his forehead! He thinks it is okay to just start walking towards walls! I don't know who told him that a wall could catch him, but that is obviously what he thinks because he walks to the walls, or into the walls I should say, every single day! I used to laugh when I would see those helmet things in a catalog that are for beginner walkers, but now I think I actually need one! I think if I survive this child, I can survive anything!