Christmas Morning!

Before the paper flies!

Tanner going through his stocking.

Present from Santa!

Present from Santa!

Santa even remembered Smokey!

The kids are starting to take the camera away from me!

Cookies for Santa!

Cutting out shapes.

Cheese!

Frosting the Cookies!

Tanner!

Kenzie!

Mady!

Popcorn Strings!

The kids and I made popcorn strings for the Christmas tree this year.  I started with all 3 kids.  It didn't last long enough for me to get a picture of the three of them.  Kenzie is the only one that stuck with it.  It takes awhile but it was fun!

Kenzie's Christmas Tree!

Kenzie decorated a Christmas Tree with her 1st grade class!

Let the decorating begin!

Kenzie's masterpiece!

Charlie Russell Choo Choo!

The Train! The ride was a lot of fun!  The kids had a great time and got to meet Santa!

Becka and Cally!

Mady and Kenzie!

Bryan and Tanner!

Bryant!

Kenzie and Sarah!

The North Pole!  We watched Santa walk to the train from his house!

Santa and the kids!

Bryant, Becka, Cally, and Bryan

Tanner, Sarah, Kenzie, and Mady

Tanner's gingerbread house!

Here is Tanner putting on the inital layer of frosting!

The decorating process!

And TA-DA!

Kids Christmas Program!

Alkali Creek 3rd grade.

Madysen!

Alkali Creek 1st grade.

MacKenzie!

Alkali Creek Kindergarten!

Tanner!

This is the first year and probably the only year that all three kids performed in the same Christmas Program!

Family pictures by the tree!

We tried to get one with Smokey.  Was a little tricky!  She just wanted scratched!

Decorating the Christmas Tree!

Here the kids are at the beginning of the decorating process!

They had a ton of fun! 

We're going to get a Christmas Tree!

The kids first time going to cut a Christmas Tree!  It began on a very sleepy note!

Mady was the only one still awake but barely!

Playing in the snow perked them up though!

Here is a tree being pulled back up to the road.

I think by this time we were all just happy to have the tree on the ground and to be heading back to the truck!

Mady helped pull the tree part of the way back to the truck.

We all had a good time.  And the kids learned that the perfect tree is whatever tree you pick!