The Gulley Family: Christmas

It is always so busy after Parkar's birthday - having Thanksgiving, both the boy's birthday parties, setting up all the Christmas stuff, finishing our shopping, baking, and all the fun holiday activities it seems like it is here and gone before we get to relax and enjoy it!! We usually set up all our Christmas decorations and lights the day after Thanksgiving and then celebrate Teylor's birthday the following Saturday. Since we went to Denver over Thanksgiving we didn't get back until Monday night and then had things going on that week. We celebrated Teylor's birthday on the 5th and we were going to put all our things up the next day after church and then right before church Cameron got a phone call from his brother saying that his nephew was lost in the Big Horn mountains. So to make a long story short Cam left and didn't get home until 3am on Monday and thank goodness they found them all and they were fine! But ... Since we always set the stuff up as a family and they are high on the shelves in the garage we had to wait until Saturday December 12th! We finally got our stuff up and had a great time doing it!

We always let the boys take turns putting the star on top

of the tree - Cameron tried to let them do it at the same time

this year but it didn't work out so well - Parkar couldn't quite

reach it all the way!

Teylor putting the star on.

The week before Christmas we had a Christmas party at our church. Santa came and handed out gift bags to all the kids. I was really surprised that Parkar wasn't afraid of him. He just sat on his lap checking him out - he knew he would candy after (he will do ANYTHING for candy) so he did good. Teylor went first and was a little bashful but did fine.

On Christmas Eve we baked cookies for Santa and decorated them. The boys thought it was neat that they were able to make Santa some cookies - they thought he would love them for sure!

Cameron rolled out the dough and then the boys

pushed their cutouts into it.

Parkar eating frosting in between frosting his cookies!

Christmas Morning - Santa came!!

I love Christmas morning! I love to watch the boys run down the hall with excitement to see what Santa brought for them - it is so great!

One of the things Teylor asked Santa for was new basketball shoes - Santa brought them and a pair for brother.

Here are a few of our pictures from Christmas morning at our house.

Parkar with all his goodies

Teylor with all his goodies

After we opened up all our presents we got ready and headed out to my parents house. We go there every year and have a great time. We opened gifts, ate lunch, and spent all afternoon and part of the evening playing games. It was so much fun we all had a great time.