Christmas with Kaili 12/26/07

We got Kaili this year on 12/26/07 so Ty and I took the day off to spend with her. She had a fun filled day of opening presents and she loved every single one of them. I think her favorite one is her new baby stroller that I didn't even get a picture of! She also really liked her new doll and her " Hair" chair that is like Grandma Bonnie's and she can do all of her babies hair in the chair! She also loved opening her stocking and liked all of the little presents she found in it! Merry Christmas everyone..until next year!

Kaili's Barbie House

Grandma Kay and Grandpa Larry made Kaili this barbie house for christmas! They worked really hard on it, and Kaili was pretty surprised and thought it was lots of fun. She escpecially likes the attic with the little doors and wanted to keep hiding things in it. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for all of your hardwork, Kaili will enjoy this for many years to come!

Christmas Eve 2007

This was on Christmas Eve. Tyler and I decided to sleep at my parents house one last time, since this year Christmas Eve was a little hard for us, because we were looking forward to having a one month old baby keeping us up with his crying at night around this time! And we also didn't have Kaili so we thought why not sleep at my parents house. Christmas Eve was a full day, we went over to Tyler's parents house in the morning and played cards with his brother and his wife. We then ate some lasagna and salad and garlic bread, that was very yummy, Thanks Kay! Then we opened presents. I got a new purse, really soft robe, two pairs of brown shoes, one casual, one dressy, new pajamas, a necklace, a sweater and two shirts. Thanks Kay and Larry for my great gifts. We then played a really fun game with his family called Loaded Questions, and then we went and met my parents at the movie and saw National Treasure 2 it was really good. We then went back to my parents house and ate some food and talked and went to bed around midnight! Oh those presents we are holding are our pajamas!

Sunday December 23, 2007

Sunday we had our annual McDermott Family Christmas party, with just my brothers and sisters and mom and dad. It was a lot of fun. We had a very nice dinner, played games, read the Christmas story, and openend some presents. We were sad, because Kaili couldn't be there, but it is a fun family tradition that we do every year! Thanks Mom and Dad!

Christmas with Grandma & Grandpa McD!

Kaili got to celebrate Christmas a little early with my mom and dad. My parents do our family party every December 23, and this year since we get Kaili the day after Christmas my parents thought it would be fun to let Kaili open her presents from them a little early, since the 26th we will be doing Christmas with her, and Tyler's parents will bring her gifts from them as well. She was so excited to open some presents! My parents gave her these two cute little baby dolls, as Kaili LOVES any kind of doll. She also got a Dr.'s Kit, that she LOVES. She played it all night and was even writing fake prescriptions and sending me to the "pharmacy" She also got a Hello Kitty DVD, and the primary CD's, because she LOVES listening to music. She also got a dolly outfit for her dolls, and she kept saying, "Isn't this outfit so cute?" It was so funny. Then my mom gave her a way cute outfit, a leaopard print pleated skirt, headband, brown jacket (the jacket is the one she is wearing for her pre-school party) and then a cream shirt. My mom also made her this way cute ABC book. Each page has a letter of the alphabet and pictures of our family relating to that letter, and then pictures of other things my mom found on the computer. It is very creative and educational! Thanks mom and dad! Kaili loves you both so much!

Pre-School Christmas Party

Kaili had her pre-school Christmas party on the 18th, and my mom and I were able to drive her up there and attend with her. She had been looking forward to this party all weekend long. When we first got there, her class sang some songs for us. Kaili was singing the loudest and knew all of the words! She loves to sing! And I love that. She is very mature for her class, she is so ready to be a sunbeam in January! Any way after they sang they did the Pledge of Alligence, which was very cute. Then they had three tables set up for us to rotate with each of them. One table had a story and elf finger puppets to color and make, one table, we made a marshmellow snowman, Kaili kept stealing skittles from the bag and eating them. It was very funny! Then she made a hand beard Santa Claus, my mom actually made these cards with Kaili a couple of weeks ago, so when she saw them, she already knew what to do. It was a lot of fun being there with her, and watching her in her school atmosphere. Next year she will put on a program at night, which should be lots of fun! Merry Christmas!

We had my work Christmas party last night at my mom and dads house. It was a really fun night. My mom had it catered and we had rolls, carrotts and broccoli, beef tenderloin and some potatoes. It was really good. The best part though was my mom made her famous spinach salad and special dressing , so yummy! They also had some yummy chocolate cake for dessert! We played some Christmas trivia and Tyler and I won a cute Christmas decoration. Then every year they have us watch a Christmas movie on our own time, and they quiz us about the movie. Ty and I got 4th place and won the dvd Christmas with the Cranks. My dad also gives out nice Christmas bonuses the day of the party, which is very nice! Mine is going towards some baby bedding and our Hawaii trip in 2009! It was a great night and I feel so thankful and blessed to have such a great employer as well as a great mom and dad!

So decorating a Christmas tree is definetly a talent that some people have, I am not one of those people. But in the end I thought my tree turned out ok, but compared to my moms or some of my friends, it is pretty sad! Oh well! Tyler put the lights on our little tree outside and those look really good at night time. I can't believe there are only 20 more days until Christmas! I keep thinking of all these Christmas movies, I need to make sure I watch before Christmas!