Christmas 2009...

I'm finally getting around to posting about Christmas this year. I started my last semester of nursing school last Monday so things have been quite busy around the Hoover house. We had a great Christmas this year, it was nice to spend some much needed time with the family.
The kids were able to participate in their daycare Christmas program this year. Bailey's class sang Jingle Bells and Peyton's class did the nativity. Bailey was so funny, when her class went up she was singing right along until she suddenly noticed her Meemaw in the audience and yelled "Hi Meemaw!" We were cracking up.

Peyton's part didn't go too well for him. He had been working on his part as one of the three wise men for weeks. He was supposed to say "I brought Muir" but when his teacher got the kids up there she accidentally told one of P's class mates to say his part and told him to say "I brought Gold"! He said it but immediately started crying after because he was so upset and he wanted to bring Muir! Poor guy. His teacher felt so bad and apologized endlessly saying she forgot who was supposed to bring what because she gets bad stage fright. Hopefully it goes better for both of them next year. **I wont post P's video because it's almost 5 minutes long


Santa and Mr. Claus came to visit following the program so the kids were able to remind him of their Christmas requests. Of course Bailey did so from a distance!

We made a trip to Temple Square to see the lights this year. I don't think we've been since Peyton was a baby. The kids had a great time, despite the nippy weather, and were amazed at the Christus, the temple and the beauty of the lights

Christmas morning was much different this year. The kids actually knew what was going on and appreciated it much more! It was fun to see and share in their excitement as Christmas is my most favorite time of year (Christmas...NOT winter!). We always give the kids PJ's on Christmas Eve, a tradition that my family had growing up. They both loved their new jammies. Here are some pictures from the day.

Excuse the crazy morning hair!

Here are some other random pictures that I've taken since the last post and also a video depicting Bailey's obsession with the new Disney movie The Princess and the Frog. A portion of most every day is spend dancing around singing over and over "people gonna come from everywhere cause I'm almost there".

Jumping off the couch to grab the balloon string

LSU Bowl game (Dang you LSU, Win next time!!)