Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

 November and December were a busier months than usual. Paul and I have been doing a vinyl business (we sell vinyl lettering for the home) and it has been insane. Our sales tripled in November and more than doubled in December.  It was good for us but made it so we had no time to do anything but the stickers! Since I use my blog as sort of a journal and I haven't updated since October, this is going to be a long one. Sorry!

In the end of October, Jaxon and I flew to California unexpectedly for a funeral. Most people that know me, know that one of my best friends in the world, Allison, and I have been friends since we were three. Her father passed away and I had to go, he was like a second father to me. It was nice to see old friends, though I wish it was under better circumstances.  Since I was gone the last week of October, my kids missed out on carving pumpkins. They had to settle for vinyl on pumpkins in November. They turned out pretty good and I think we may do it again next year. Kade's is a traditional pumpkin, Bailey's is a baby, and Kylie's is a dog. The whole thing only took us about 20 minutes and no mess!

I just got a new camera and couldn't figure it out, hence the blurriness.

Jaxon this month has become mobile! He scoots all over the place very quickly! He also has started pulling himself up onto everything. We used the Christmas tree box to block him in the front room. This was supposed to keep him from attacking the Christmas Tree. He would use it to stand up and kept falling in it. It was hilarious. He never cried once just grinned and thought he was so funny.

 These pics were going to be on my Christmas Card that I never had time to make.  I love them and still wanted to share so Merry Christmas! From the Chalmers

School Christmas programs are so much fun. This year Kade had one too! They were all on Friday so it made for a busy but fun day. I took the day off and in between the programs did my Christmas shopping! It was great!

Kade did a great job! You could tell when he got bored but it was adorable to watch.

The girls sang with their choir and did great too!!

My mom, dad, sister, aunt Carol and cousin Jackie all came down for Christmas and we had lots of fun!

We visited Santa and told him just what we wanted. My sister, Amanda, takes the best pictures! She took these of the kids visiting Santa.

It snowed and snowed so Aunt Amanda took the kids outside to build a snowman and this is what they got (obviously it didn't snow a ton (: )

Jaxon is such a cutie! This being his first Christmas, we took lots of pictures! Here are a few in a Santa Hat.

On Christmas Eve, Paul's sister and her family (the Myers) came over and we had an awesome time eating and playing. We even sang Christmas Carols thanks to Jason's guitar playing! After everyone left, we did our own traditions: the kids opened 2 gifts, one from their sibling (we picked names this year) and their new jammies.  Then they put their reindeer food on the lawn (so the reindeer will see our house), set out cookies they make with Nana and some milk for Santa and read our stories. We had a great Christmas Eve!

Christmas morning was even better. The kids slept until 8! We opened gifts and all the normal Christmas stuff. It was a great day!

My fantastic sister informed us all while we were bowling on the Wii that she had never been bowling before in all her 24 years. She'd been to bowling alleys but never threw the ball. Can you believe that?? I sure couldn't. So of course the day after Christmas while everyone in the world was shopping, we went bowling and it was a blast. We took a family pic to record this momentous day for her but unfortunatley its super blurry. Oh well, I'm posting it anyways!

And some random pictures...

And this ends this super long post and the end of 2009.  

Happy New Year!