Christmas

 A few days before Christmas Sea World advertised "buy one, get one" season passes. We were on the fence about whether to get season passes this year or not. The sale sealed the deal for us but there was one catch. It had to be activated at the part before the first week of January. We looked up the weather and Christmas Eve was forecasted to be 77 degrees so we decided it was a perfect day to go to Sea World.

 We got there and the kids went on a few kiddie rides and then begged to go into the splash park area. Since we knew we weren't staying for very long we let the kids get soaked. They were the only ones in the water area and they had a blast.

We went home and cooked our dinner of apetizers quickly and then opened Christmas jammies.

Bug is so happy to finally have matching jammies with a brother.

And the girls were thrilled with new nightgowns.

We did our nativity program again. Posing for the picture is the only thing that goes well for this. Lucy begged to play Mary so we decided Scotty should be Joseph. They ended up fighting over the doll the entire time so I was grateful we didn't wake up Rachel from her nap to play the part of baby Jesus. 

You guys, I didn't get a single picture from Christmas morning. The kids got a few awesome toys but the $35 Kindle Fires from Amazon and headphones stole the prize. The kids love them.

I made them all sign a contract about not complaining and the time limit rules. They all obliged and we are happy they quit borrowing our tablets. They all have linked up, even Lucy, to play Minecraft which is hilarious. Mallie one day told me she had to kill a sheep because it fell into her swimming pool and it was the only way to get it out.