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Friday, December 7, 2012

Jingle all the way...

The making of the gingerbread house!  I had mentioned that I wanted to let the boys decorate a ginger bread house.  Brent came home from Home Depot with a "Home Depot Gingerbread House"... not exactly what I had in mind... but the boys loved it!

Nathan's Favorite Part: Eating the candy
Benjamin's Favorite Part: Lining all the candy along the frosting

The finished product... the boys love it!


N & B love the tree and at times touch all the ornaments way more then I would like.  However they love it, they say that it is beautiful and they talk about how they cut it down.  At night they take their blankets, lay them out on the floor under the tree and lay under the tree looking up at the lights... it is pretty much the cutest thing and epitome of how I picture the season to be. 

I came down the stair to find this scene.... "Mommy I make you eggers?!?"

Ben should be the poster child for shutterfly... he loves getting the boxes off the front step!

A lunch date at Burger Moe's with Joe and Ellie and Adelia


St. Nicholas came to the Utech's.  He left behind a few gifts for daddy and the boys and of course the Elf!  The boys have named the elf Nicholas!  They think Nicholas is great and race down the stairs to find Nicholas' silly hiding spot for the day!

ECFE Christmas Party

Reindeer... hand and foot prints

Attempting the group shot!

Christmas cookie decorating


A Christmas Book exchange!
The kids are getting so big, they have conversations with each other, they hug when they leave each other.  So cute... they have spent so much time together over the last 2.5 years.  What lucky little toddlers!

Thursday, December 6, 2012

A Little Christmas Cheer!

Setting up the Nativity scene... yup they broke the leg off of the lamb already.  Ben looked guilty, Nathan just said, "don't worry mommy, I kiss it, daddy will fix it!"

Setting up their tiny playroom tree..

They decorated it all by themselves!

Friday night at the Children's museams new Castle Exhibit









Rice Park


And we stopped at Candyland in downtown st. Paul, they both got a little back of gummy worms and they were in heaven!

Saturday night we headed to the annual College friends Christmas party.


Nathan and Benjamin were party animals.  They were up until 11pm, they just wanted to eat and hang out with friends.
Sunday am we set up our Christmas tree... Nathan and Ben were so excited to put the "Big" tree in our house. They wanted to help us with the lights and ornaments.  It is so much fun to watch them experience all these new activities.  


Since the weather was so nice it seemed like the perfect night to meet some friends downtown for dinner and trip to the holidazzle parade.  

Nicollet Mall

7 kiddos ready for Santa, a parade and a lights spectacular






Sunday, December 2, 2012

Utech Family 2012 Christmas Tree

Last year we had a horrible fake, tiny, and sparsely decorated tree so this year it was off to the Christmas Tree Farm in Lake Elmo to find a  big and beautiful tree!

off to find their tree...

We found it!

They were so proud of their "BIG" Christmas tree


Ben helping daddy cut down the tree!

Nathan helping too!

off we go


Look we found Grumpy and Gramma's tree too!

Berkeley was so great and loves being apart of family outings

We found Santa back at the warming house!

So cute, they wanted to give Santa Hugs and Kisses
They were sure to tell Santa what they wanted for Christmas
Ben: Legos and a rocket ship
Nathan: Big Presents