Birthdays, a Wedding, Christmas, and New Years...

So our Holidays in the Burnett home were a bit crazy, but a joy as usual...it all started out on the 13th with Jacob's 1st birthday party. I originally started out with about 4 kids on the invitation list and ended up with 11 at the end. I thought to myself, "it will be okay, people have a lot going on in December, not all of them will come"...WRONG!!! All 11 3-6 year olds came to our tiny home along with 4 adults. Needless to say it was crazy, but good, it was organized chaos and the kids were really good. Unfortunately, our birthday boy isn't much for crowds and had a hard time with all the kids. He decided to be grumpy for most of the party. I will chalk that up to a lesson learned and move on...

Next in line on the 17th, Wade's parents came in from PA for my brother-in-law's (Devin's) wedding on the 20th, so those three days were spent on wedding dinners, last minute Christmas shopping and hanging out with family and of course the actual wedding which was beautiful but freezing 16 degrees (about 0 with the windchill) I guess it could have been worse.

After the wedding, My sister-in-law and her family came to stay with us. I was so glad for the company and the time we got to spend together and for the most part the kids got along pretty well, but there are some definite differences in age and personality and there were a few struggles, apperently nothing too bad because Jacob asks when we will see them again.

This is a picture of Cousin Chase and Jacob taking a walk in the snow.

So my in-laws had to fly back on the 25th to get ready for the open house they were having on the 27th. So we decided to combine my birthday, Jacob's family birthdy and Christmas Eve all on the same day...what was I thinking, actually it wasn't that bad. In the morning I got to go to my favorite show, Good Things Utah, and meet some of the hosts. You also get to wave to the camera when it's your birthday, so I got to be on local TV for a few seconds of fame, I hope nobody saw because I think I looked like a dork!

Next we came home and got ready for Christmas with all the baking, wrapping and all the stuff that goes with it. In the Burnett Family, they always have Pizza Hut pizza on Christams Eve ( I have a bit of a hard time doing it, because I feel bad for the poor people who have to work, but this time it was on the 23rd so it wasn't so bad). So we did that, ate cheesecake for my birthday and football cake for Jacob's and of course left food out for the Reindeer and cookies for Santa, read the nativity story and went to bed (well the kids did). The adults played Santa and then stupid traditional me stayed up until 1:30 making cinnamon rolls for breakfast.

Christmas moring was happy chaos as usual, but I have to say it was a bit harder for Wade to play Santa this year with 4 kids instead of 1 (Anna wasn't old enough last year to care) to deal with...he was definately busy. The favotite gifts were Jacob's new Geotrax (Airplane edition), Anna's new baby and stroller, My Wii Fit and DC Temple mural ( I will post a picture of that later...its beautiful) and Wade got a lot of practical gifts but I am going to guess that he liked his new shoes the best.

So everyone left Christmas Day and we went to my Aunts house for dinner, which was suprizingly relaxing...my kids are chickens and it takes a lot of effort at other's houses to entertain them, but they warmed up quickly and I didn't have to entertain much at all. Things have been pretty calm since then...we did do a little something for Jacob's real birthday we went to a Salt Lake Grizzlies Game (Hockey) and Jacob got a signed puck...he was so cute he held his ticket and puck for the whole game. That night, we all started throwing up, but nothing serious, no fever and we were all fine the next day until 4 days later when Jacob threw up again again, no fever, and he was fine the next day...weird huh? We also did a little something for New Years Eve. I used my new Fry Daddy to make fried nutella ravioli (I saw this on Everyday Italian on Food Network) It wasn't bad but not as good as I hoped. At 8 we set off poppers and had sparkling cider and put the kids to bed. The rest of the night was spent using the Wii Fit and barely keeping our eyes open for the ball drop.

Needless to say we are all tuckered out...this is a picture of Jacob who pretended to cash his bike into the couch cushon and then continued to be too tired to get back up and fell asleep under his bike!

We are all back to normal now. Jacob started up preschool again and Wade started his second MBA semester and my life has finally gone back to some kind of routine...Yea!!! Hope all of you had a wonderful Holiday Seasons and we hope you have a fabulous 2009!!!