Lots of pictures!!!

We had such a nice Christmas this year! We stayed home for the first year since we were married. The kids had so much fun opening presents and playing with new toys. Evan loves his new cooking set, ball popper and his leap frog ABC magnet toy. Kiah got some cute clothes and stuffed animals and lots of books, but I think her favorite was the wrapping paper! Dallas is now wasting away his break watching movies (he got a lot!) and I love my new cookware set! (thanks Mom and Dad!!!) It has been lots of fun spending Christmas with my little family! That is really the best part of the holidays. We sure miss everyone back home!




I had another photo shoot with my kids and I got some cute pictures. One day they will enjoy sitting by each other so I can get a good picture of them together. I made Kiah a jean skirt out of Evan's old jeans and it turned out really cute! It looks good with her stripped tights! I also made her some head bands out of some tights which turned out to be cute too. Now I am working on making some bows and clips. Evan refuses to look at the camera! The only good one I got with him looking turned out blurry :( The other one just has a cheesy smile. Oh well he is a cutie!

(This is the one of Evan I love, it's just blurry)

(This one is my favorite)

Christmas letter

We decided to start a Christmas letter blog :) Click on the link to read our letter :) http://batemanfamnewsletter.blogspot.com/

I also wanted to show some pictures we took of our family, enjoy!

Its been too long

I feel like it has been way to long since I've written anything. This blog has been like a journal about our family and I miss having the internet at home! Anyway, now I feel like I have to catch you all up on what you've missed!
I'll go back to Thanksgiving...
We had Thanksgiving with the Allen's and the Maas' at the Allen's home(some friends in the ward, and now our new neighbors). The food was so yummy and it was so nice to have friends to be with since we couldn't be with family. Evan had lots of fun with the other kids and he loved sitting at the kids table to eat (back in the day I hated eating at the "kids table" but he had fun!) I made my Mom's yams, pumpkin pie, Dallas' Mom's Jello salad, and some rolls (that turned out great- I now have the best recipe for rolls!) Evan is now a huge fan of pumpkin pie. He would've eaten it all if I let him!

The next morning Makiah woke me up at 3 am right before my alarm went off. I gave her to Dallas and got ready to go shopping! I always thought people were crazy for shopping the day after Thanksgiving, but I had so much fun! I went with some friends and so we were able to wait in lines for each other while we all shopped. It's crazy how many people get up that early to hit the sales, but it's definitely worth it if you know what you are going for. I got gifts for the family, some new clothes for Makiah, and I even got myself some frames:)

Kiah's new clothes :)

On Saturday we set up our (very) little Christmas Tree. It's only 3 feet tall but it's perfect! Evan loves the lights and his reindeer ornament that Grandma Johnson gave him last year. Now our house is all ready for the holidays. We loooove Christmas and We cannot wait!

We had a ward Christmas party last week and guess who showed up?

Classic

Evan really did like Santa-until I put him on his lap! After he got down he said bye-bye Santa!