Merry Christmas!

I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas! We’ve had a great Christmas here at casa de Soggy Cheerios. We ate our traditional Chinese food ala Panda Express Christmas Eve dinner and then read a story together after changing into our new Christmas Jammies gifted to us by the Pajama Fairy (part played this year by Grandma in Vegas).

We were getting ready to go downstairs and have the girls watch a Christmas movie while Steve and I finished started wrapping presents and finishing our big gift when there was a knock on the door!

It was the big guy himself!

He talked to the girls, told them to go to sleep when they were told so he could come back later! Then they sang a song together and posed for a picture!

Oh- and he gave them all a candy cane- which fulfilled Cori’s Christmas wish!

Steve and I went to bed about 3am. The night before I went to bed at 6:30 am. I’ll show you what we’ve been working on in a minute.

Because of that I’m glad my girls like to sleep in. Ashley started waking people up at 8am. Corinne wasn’t ready even though there was presents involved.


Don’t try to touch her candy cane though!

That’s more like it!

Here’s Steve in his Christmas jammies!

Cori with the only thing she’d ask for besides a candy cane.

All the girls with their favorites! (Grandma Vegas sent them all webkinz in treasure chests- HUGE hit!

Coming downstairs to the ‘big’ gift..

This is the house that Steve and Amber built.

Who’s in there?

Annika and Corinne!

Megan and Annika!

The mailbox opens!

What fun parents these girls have!

(Steve built the frame out of PVC pipes and then I came up with the pattern for the cover. We worked together to cut it all out and sew it. There is vinyl in the windows. We’re moving it to the backyard when the snow melts).


15 Responses to “Merry Christmas!”  

  1. 1 Andrea

    That’s a great house that you built for them. What good parents you are!

  2. 2 Char

    You did a great job on the house!

    Merry Christmas!

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  3. 3 Becca Jo

    Pretty great! You guys get best parents award this year. (Well you don’t beat out mom) And you just wait when I’m rockin’ the housewife life.

  4. 4 Kristina

    That’s such a cute house!

    Merry Christmas!

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  5. 5 Sheri

    That is truly awesome and amazing. They’re so lucky! Merry Christmas!

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  6. 6 Rebecca

    What’s that giant stick? Is a walking stick? Is it a rain making stick?

    The house is too cute! You finished this the night before? How did you keep it a secret?

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  7. 7 Tirzah

    That is a really cute house!

    Merry Christmas!

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  8. 8 Moravia

    Merry Christmas Amber.

    Great pictures and I love the playhouse you guys put together.

  9. 9 Jo

    That playhouse turned out great! And I love the way your little gal was clutching the candy cane as if her life depended on it. If only the rest of dreams are as easy to fulfill.

    Jo’s last blog post..Happy Holidays

  10. 10 JULIE

    i love it…of course. :) any chance i might find one like that at a garage sale ( and not actually have to put in ALL THAT WORK!?!? :)
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  11. 11 Sabra

    awsome house!!

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  12. 12 Shantelle

    I love the house!! You guys rock!
    Corinne was so sleepy–great pictures!

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  13. 13 Bonnie Childress

    Great house! They look so happy!

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  14. 14 Hannah

    That is a awesome house. You did a great job.

    We had a tee pee growing up and I was just thinking the other day how I could make one.

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  15. 15 pam

    you are very talented!!!!