Simply Wonderful Christmas Time

Where do I even start? We had a great Christmas this year. We went to both of our parent's Christmas Eve parties. My favorite part was a story called Christmas Eve. It is the nativity story intermixed with Christmas songs. It was fun just to hear our whole family attempting to sing a cappela, but also the story itself I really enjoyed. Corbin got his new pajamas from Grandma Jenkins. Doesn't he look handsome? He's not one for comotion, so he has a funny expression on his face, there was definitely a lot going on at both houses.

Christmas morning Matt and I were up a while before Corbin. We decided to do our own gifts while we were waiting, since he wouldn't know what was going on anyways. It was a low-key gift exchange, but I thought it was perfect.

We had just started exchanging our gifts when Corbin woke up. I was too impatient and gave him his presents right away. He was still a little tired, and very overwhelmed. He had fun, but it was a little too much right when he woke up.

The presents he opened at his Grandparents houses were much more exciting because he wasn't tired. It was a great day with lots of family. So long Christmas, come again next year!

Away He Goes!

Seriously, Corbin is everywhere! He has been scooting and doing an army crawl for about a month now, but this last week he took off crawling.

He can crawl without breaks when he doesn't have pants on, he kind of gets caught on them. He is all over the place though, it is so cute! Too bad he can only go a total of like five feet until he hits the next wall.

I took Corbin to his six month appointment last week. He is no longer short and fat! He was 18 lbs 4 oz, the 63 % and 27 in., 67% for height. I can't believe he is already six months old, crazy!

Party #3

My Grandpa Davis has a party with my dad's whole family. Santa pays us a visit every year. This is the first time Corbin has ever seen Santa, and he did great. Matt put a Cheerio on the present so Corbin was very interested. After the Cheerio was gone, Santa's beard was the next best thing. I don't think he enjoyed it as much as he expected though.

This may be the only time Corbin enjoys Santa for a while. The other kids weren't too fond of him, especially Grace.

Beau would only get close enough to give knuckles and get his present. Santa was satisfied with that though.We all had a great time singing Christmas carols waiting for Santa to come join us.

Party #2

The Jenkins' have a fun tradition of a 'bird tree'. We string popcorn, cranberries, crackers, and other food on a little Christmas tree. Everyone drives out to the cemetery and sings a Christmas carol as they place the tree by his grave for the birds (his Grandpa worked with wildlife.)

It's not necessarily the prettiest tree, but I love the tradition.

This was Matt's attempt of a picture with all the kids. Makenna slept through the whole thing.

I missed out on going to the cemetery because Corbin was hungry. As you can see, he wasn't exactly happy.

Christmas Party #1

The Davis Party was our first of the Christmas parties this year. We had Steph's cute tree for some great family pictures.

I love this picture! All three of us smiling at the same time, perfect.

We played the clothes game, but it was slightly different with eight children running around. They had a blast with all the clothes though. Jed would try to hold the bag as long as he could in order for the music to stop on him.

Corbin loved pulling off the wrapping paper so he could see how it tasted. I think he really liked it.

Then we just hung out for a few minutes with some very tired children. Seriously, Corbin is into everything right now. He sucks on anything he can get his hands on. The other day I was getting ready and I went out to pick Corbin up, I couldn't see him and he had crawled into the kitchen. Which in my house, isn't the best place for him to be. I can't leave him alone at all any more.

Temple Square

My family went to temple square on Sunday after dinner. It was insane! I could not believe how many people were there. It is usually busy, but I never remember it being like that. Every place we went we got separated. Matt and I just wandered on our own because it was too hard to stay together. It was way fun though, the weather was perfect. Corbin slept for most of it, which worked out pretty good, but he did wake up in time to enjoy at least some of the lights. This was only Matt's third time going to the lights. That is so crazy to me, his second time was with me too. I love them.

Christmas Village

It is seriously so hard for me to find the time to post anymore. Our computer is in Corbin's bedroom and he is a terrible sleeper, like really really terrible. So the last thing I want to do when he finally is asleep at 11:30 pm is go into his room and risk waking him by using the computer.

Last week my family all went to Christmas village. I didn't get to stay very long because I left Corbin's formula at home. He wasn't having very much fun anyway though. He wouldn't sit in his stroller because his coat covered almost his entire face. I had to carry him, and he gets heavy very quickly. It was fun to see the houses, even if it was short lived.