Christmas Movies

This is a movie of Braxton and Kasen playing ping pong together. :) HILARIOUS! He's got the real tennis grunts going on and everything. Kasen is the one on the far side where the light is, Uncle Mike was holding him. Uncle Cam is holding Braxton.

This is a movie of Brandon opening his homemade Christmas present (name exchange gift) from Jeremy. He was delighted as you can tell. I mean, really? Who wouldn't be with that kind of gift? That's a quality present right there.

The Good Shepherd

Every other year we go to Jeremys parents house for Christmas. 3 of the 5 Bruce kids are married and so we all have the same year to go see his family and it makes for a great, but crowded home! Between parents, kids, grandparents and grandkids there were 15 of us in a 4 bdrm house. Jeremy Kasen and I slept in the guest room. Katie, Jeremy's 19 yr old sister slept in the craft room, Cameron...jeremys 15 yr old brother slept on the couch in the tv room, his parents of course had their room (the grandparents only stayed over night on christmas eve), jeremys brother brandon, nichole and braxton shared Cam's room, Isaac the 15 mos old slept in the laundry room, and Jeremys 22 yr old sister Megan and hubby Mike slept in the glass door office on an air mattress. They put up sheets for curtains over the door. It was interesting, but honestly? I wouldn't want it any other way for 2009 Christmas! It was so nice to be close to everyone except when Isaac decided not to sleep at 4am just about every night we were there. Poor kid. We forgive you!

They got a ping pong table last year and we had a huge tournament between all the adults. There were 10 people competing. It was hilarious. We seriously had some good laughs out in the garage in the middle of the night. I love getting family together. Jeremy's brother Cameron won the tournament with a close 2nd by brother in law Mike. I beat all the girls, but when it came to playing the guys, I got my booty kicked. Although, I will note...I BEAT JEREMY. ha! Kasen loved playing...he thought it was so great. Hopefully he will take after his mommy and play tennis one day.

Every Christmas Eve Jeremy's family replays the Nativity scene while Jeremy's dad reads from the scriptures. It really helps to put focus on what the real meaning of the holiday is and everyone gets to participate. There are always some good laughs when everyone gets into costume. I was busy wrapping presents when the parts were assigned, so I got to be the stage manager. :) Kasen was a sheperd along with his cousin Braxton. We had mary(katie) and joseph(cameron), the angel (megan) and the 3 wisemen (mike, jeremy and brandon). I really like this tradition and REALLY want to start it when my family gets bigger. Maybe I can make my family do it this coming year. Who knows. Anway.

Another tradition is to make gingerbread houses together. We all sit around the table and get to make them with all the candy you can imagine. By the time we were done we all felt super sick from eating candy as we went and licking our fingers if we got frosting on them.

Braxton, Kasen's cousin who is about 2 month younger than him taught Kasen to wrestle while we were there. Kasen had fun pinning Braxton, but anytime Braxton would try to pin Kasen, he flipped out. He doesn't quite get the concept yet. But it was still cute to see them rolling around putting each other in headlocks. Jeremy and Brandon always have to prove a point when they see each other. Jeremy is bigger and stronger than Brandon, STILL. lol

I had such a great Christmas with the Bruce family. I look forward to doing it again in 2 years. Thank you for everything!!! We love you!

It's official...

I went to my chiropractor tonight and while I was there I showed him what happened to my toe. He said we might as well do xrays since it was free, and I said ok. The result? It's broken! GRR!!! I might have to ride one of those golf cars around the airport tomorrow! How cool!

OWW!

Saturday night I hurt my foot. I was trying to get out of Jeremy's way and wasn't looking where I was going and my foot ran right into the corner of the wall. It was my left foot. The 3 right toes went to the right, and the two baby toes when to the left. This is how it looks now. I STILL can't walk on it. It hurts STILL!

Can you tell which one is swollen? Wish me luck with a 3 year old and luggage at the airport tomorrow, limping around!

Campbell Family Christmas

Since we are leaving tomorrow to go to Jeremy's familys house in WA, we had Christmas with my parents yesterday. We really talked up the fact that Santa was making a special stop by my parents house because he knew we weren't going to be here on Christmas. Kasen was so excited and couldn't believe that SANTA was coming to OUR house. He is so much fun this year. He understands so much more, and gets so EXCITED about anything Christmas. Here are a few pictures of him opening his presents.

The tree with all of our presents.
Kasen's first soccer ball! He was SO excited!
Where's Kasen?
Bailey and her Christmas present...
Jeremy embarassed by his present.
Kasen with his new Diego bike from Santa. Santa even left a Christmas bell for him like on Polar Express.
Geotrax!
His new bobby slippers.

A little excessive on the pads, but you never can be too safe. He only wears his helmet now.
Plasma car from Grandma and Grandpa. Even adults can ride it. It's tons of fun!!

I will be sad to be gone for Christmas, but I am excited to go see my in laws and to have Kasen experience Christmas with them as well. See you tomorrow Bruces!

Ward Christmas Party

Seriously! What am I going to do with my boys?

We went to my parents ward Christmas party on Friday night. Kasen met santa for the first time. He was TOTALLY star struck! ALL smiles, giggles, and you could tell he just felt SO honored to be in the same room as him. (Santa was about Jeremy's age) Funny. You can tell by his smile how giddy he was to be with Santa.

Cantebury Gardens

My mom took us to a really cool store called Cantebury Gardens in Escondido. It's owned by some people that we grew up with in our home ward. It's a Christmas store thats SO decked out its almost overwhelming. Totally fun though. They have the BIGGEST village train set I have ever seen. Kasen loved it. He had a little Christmas overload though. He saw so many things he wanted to talk about that he couldn't even spit it out before he saw something else.

Here are a few pictures of us outside on Santa's sleigh.