Celebrating Christmas

This is going to be another one of my long posts. I apologize in advance. I wanted to make sure I didn't leave anything out for the grandparents.

We hope you all had a very merry Christmas! We started our Christmas celebration at our ward Christmas Party. Pictured below is Paul and Paige with Santa Claus. They both loved him. We thought Paige would freak out but she loved his beard. She grabbed on the moment she sat down on his lap and didn't want to let go. Paul eagerly jumped in his lap in order to get a toy on the other side.


The celebration continued on a couple trips to Disneyland. If you haven't been during the Holidays, you have to go. It is magical. Here we are on Santa's Sled. Too bad we didn't have this picture in time for our Christmas Card.

Here is Paul visiting Santa and his reindeer. Again, he loved it. I think he was a little dissappointed this Santa didn't have a toy for him after the picture. He did get a candy cane which was almost as good as a toy.

Here is Paul with Pluto.

Here is Paul and dad on the rockets.

Here is Paul on the merry-go-round.

Here is Paul on It's a Small World. We love this ride during the holidays.

Mom and Paige on It's A Small World. Paige loved this ride.

Here we are with Mickey Mouse.

This year Paul got to go on the roller coaster in Toon Town. He was exactly the right height. He went on it 4 times and would have kept going if we had let him. I am so excited for when he is old enough to go on some of the other big rides I love like Space Mountain, Tower of Terror and California Screamin.

Actual Christmas was spent in St. George with the whole Proctor Family. There were 21 of us this year as well as one friend and we all stayed in the same house! It was full but lots and lots of fun. There were 7 grandkids this year which made it extra exciting. We kicked off the week by celebrating Grandpa Proctor's birthday on the 22nd. We went miniature golfing. Let's just say, it was interesting with 2 two-year-olds, a 4-year-old and a 5-year-old. I'm not sure if anyone played a full game. Paul pretty much wandered around the whole place throwing his ball around and stealing two others. He ended up with three balls at the end of the game.

Here are the kids waiting to start the game.

Here is Paul and dad at the first hole.

This is how the rest of the game went for Paul.

Paige took a snooze during all the fun but woke up for the end.

Here is Brooklyn waiting for her turn.

Paul and I at the Eiffel Tower. So romantic.

Annie Jane taking a rest.

Edee and I.

Here are some pictures at a park we love in St. George.

Paul pushing Paul and Brooklyn on the swings. They loved it so much they stayed on them for about an hour straight.

Paul with Paige and Addy.

Paul and Brooklyn on the slide. They went down together almost every time.

Cute Annie Jane.

Paul jumping off the rocks to his dad. Good thing his dad catches well.

Sweet Paige.

While the women were cooking Christmas dinner, the guys took the kids on a little walk to get them out of our hair.

Here is Annie.

Here is Sam.

Paul and dad walking together. So cute.

Al holding Baby Jane and Annie.

The bridge

Throwing rocks over the bridge.

Here is Sam again.

Paul and Brooklyn throwing rocks into the river.

The kids made and decorated sugar cookies for Santa Claus. Here is Paul decorating his cookies.

Here is Brooklyn and Annie at work on their cookies.

Here are Paul's finished cookies. I thought he did a great job.

Here is Paul sampling one of the cookies.

The kids acted out the Christmas Story. Here is Brooklyn as the Angel.

Here is Annie as the Virgin Mary.

Here is Paul as Joseph.

Here is Paul trying to get out of costume. He didn't make it very long as Joseph.

We got Paul to get into costume again by getting rides on a donkey (Eric). However, after a couple of rides, he took off the clothes again and ran away.

Here is the table set for Christmas Dinner.

Here we are enjoying our dinner.

Grandma and Royce.

Table #2.

The kid's table.

Edee and Addy.

Eric and Shayna having a special moment ;)

Yay! It's finally Christmas morning. The kids were so excited to walk up the stairs to see what Santa brought for them. They were so patient while we had breakfast. Here are some pictures of us waiting for breakfast.

Mom with her two kiddies.

Baby Jane

Uncle Eric

Kristen and Jane

Edee and Brooklyn

Ben and Emily

Alan and Annie

Addy

22 Stockings!

Gifts for 22 people!

Here is Sam and Paul staring at the gifts before breakfast.

Here are the three babies born in 2009. Addy born in January and Jane and Paige born in June. Jane and Paige are only 4 days apart.

Sam and Brooklyn. These two are only 6 months apart.

Sam (Elf), Brookly(Mrs. Claus) and Paul (Snowflake)

Brooklyn holding Paige.

Here are all 7 of the kids.

Here they are again

And then we finished breakfast and got to open our stockings and presents! Here is Paul with his stocking.

Here he is opening his new trike!

More gifts

A Tonka dump truck

Handy Manny toolbox

Here is Paul opening a box of See's chocolates. This was the highlight of his Christmas.

Actually, the highlight was probably new running shoes. He really needed new ones.

Mine was probably a new Nano and Nike Plus.

Here are the 2009 girls again.

Here is Paige with a toy that looks like chopsticks.

Here are the kids with Great Grandma Proctor.

Every year we interview the kids with the video camera. Here is Paul during his interview.

Here is Paige during her interview.

Happy Holidays!

October and November Update

Life has been really busy with my two kiddies. It seemed like Paige slept ALL the time the first few months of her life which made the adjustment to 2 kids manageable. Paige is now 5-months-old and no longer wants to spend her days and nights sleeping. She is really alert and active just like her brother was at her age. At 5 months, she can already roll from front to back and back to front, raise up on her chest, grab toys and bring them to her mouth and sit up by herself. She is very interested in what we are doing and if you are not paying attention for 1 second, she snatches whatever you have away from you. She also throws a fit if you ever try and take anything away from her. She already has such personality and we are loving every minute with her. 

A lot has happened since my last post so this is going to be another long one. I've also posted some random photos for the grandparents. 

In October the Galaxy hosted a Meet and Greet for the season ticket holders. We were able to go and watch the team practice and meet and get autographs from a few of the players. We didn't get to meet Beckham but we did get to meet Donovan, Franklin and Saunders. 

Here is Beckam at the practice

Here is Paul enjoying the practice

Here is Paul hitting on Miss Galaxy

Here is Sean Franklin signing Paul's soccer ball

Here is Donovan signing the ball.

This is what happens to Paige when I leave her alone with her brother for a few minutes. 

This year was Paul's first time carving pumpkins. We didn't trust Paul to even be close to a knife last year and this year he was old enough to hold one with his dad. He really enjoyed pulling out the guts and lighting a candle in them afterwards. Dad ended up carving both pumpkins while I was holding Paige. 

Here is Paul pulling out the guts. 

Here is Paul putting the lid back on the pumpkin.

Here are both of the pumpkins. I think the first one is supposed to look Asian. Hopefully, it's not supposed to look like me.

Here is Paige as a pea pod on Halloween night.

Paul as a handy man.

Here is our family on Halloween night.

We had a very close family friend visit us and we thought it would be fun to take him to The Getty. We got off the tram and walked up the steps to the museum. The steps look like the one pictured below. If you know Little Paul, you know that he never pays attention to where he is walking/running. He is always looking elsewhere. Well on this particular day, he was not paying attention while walking up these stairs and fell in the water. He got everything wet. It was cold outside so we had to take all his clothes off and wrap him in Paige's blanket and our friend's jacket. We had just gotten there so my husband carried him back to the car and went in search of some new clothes. I guess people look at you weird if you walk into a store with a naked kid wrapped in a blanket trying to get away from you. I think people thought he had abducted an Asian kid.

Here is the water he fell into.

Here is Paul wrapped up in a blanket and jacket.

Here is a picture of our cute girl at the park.

And here is our cute son at the park.

Paige at 4 months

We made a trip to St. George for Thanksgiving this year to spend with Paul's parents. We were supposed to be in Michigan for Thanksgiving but since we were there in September it was too expensive to fly back a couple months later. Here are some cute pictures of Paul at the park. He really loved these statues of little kids.

Paul kissing a girl.

Here is Paul sticking his fingers in this little boy's ears. 

Here he is hugging another boy.

For Thanksgiving Day, we flew to Provo in Grandpa's plane. Paul, of course, loved this. We spent Thanksgiving with my husband's Grandma as well as many Aunts, Uncles and Cousins. I think there were 26 of us in total.

Here is Paul on the plane.

Here is Paul as copilot.

Here is Paul flying the plane.

Here is Paul in front of Grandpa's plane.

Here is our family in front of Great Grandma's house.

Here is Paul eating his Thanksgiving meal. I think he ate for about 10 minutes before he ran downstairs to play with the toys and his second cousins. 

Here is Paul pigging out on candy while his dad is making his gingerbread train. Paul rarely gets candy but when he does, he takes full advantage. He pounded it. Even after the houses were all done and the candy was put away, if I couldn't find him anywhere I would find him picking candy off the finished houses. 

Here is my house. 

Here is Paul's train.

Here is mom and Paige.

Here is Paige with her cousin, Jane. 

Playing downstairs.

Our last day in St. George, we decided to give Paul a haircut since his hair was starting to look like he was wearing a helmet. It ended up looking shorter than I thought it would be but we still think he looks really cute. Here is my little Buddha.

Here is Paul enjoying a Jamba Juice at the park.

Here is Paige on her first swing ride. She really loved it.

Here is Paige at 5-months-old. How cute is she? Seriously, I can't get over it.