Christmas in February!

Yah, slacker is back at it again. I never did a Xmas blog and now that I have uploaded the pictures I am going to do it, better late than never. I am mostly doing this because I intend to turn this blog into a book at some point (I hear some of you laughing knowing this will NEVER happen.) ha ha.

We had a very funfilled and busy Xmas as usual. Since we have so many stops to make we often start Xmas the weekend before so we can spend more time at each location. The boys were spoiled as usual, and came home with some pretty cool stuff. We got 3 of many things which makes life so much easier, no more fighting over who gets to play with what.

There were a few days in the month leading up to Xmas that Jake and I wondered how we were going to explain to the boys that they would be getting no presents because they were acting so out of control. I am completely jealous of all the people who tell me that they love December because their kids behave so well with the threat of Santa. For some reason our kids could care less about Santa. We tried nearly every trick in the book including the elf on the shelf. He's a little guy that comes with a letter from Santa and he watches over you to see how you are behaving and goes to the North Pole and reports back to Santa each night. Well it got so bad that at one point Ernie (our elf) actually disappeared for nearly a week. I told the boys that they had been so bad that Santa must have called him back to the North Pole so he could go to someone else's house. Santa didn't need him at our house because their behavior had been so bad Santa wouldn't be coming on Xmas Eve. As Jake would say... it still didn't work. Ernie did show back up with a note from Santa and the behavior got a little better, but not much. In the end they of course got presents, but honestly if Santa were making a list and checking it twice I am relatively certain our tree would have been bare on Christmas morning.

Here are a few pics from the different Xmas celebrations.

Christmas at Grandma Karen's

Christmas at Grandma Lana and Papa John's

Christmas presents from Kathy (Easton and Sutton's Preschool)

Xmas with Grandpa Bob and Grandma Patty

All the Koller boys together

Christmas Morning at home (matching jammies is our tradition, and it was completely coincidental that the jammies and the wrapping paper matched.)Christmas with Grandma Rene and Grandpa Dean and extended family
My side of the family



And the Koller Crew 2008