Holiday Celebrations!

Brixton had his annual Christmas program at Noah's ark.  His class sang a song and Brixton was REALLY into it!  Towards the 2nd or 3rd verse he really starts going to town and he was the ONLY one you could hear!  Please forgive us for the tortuous screaming from Sawyer in the beginning of the show :)
(Technical difficulties; I'll post the video later!)

The next day we went to Sawyer's soccer class...we've shown so many of those photos, but Brixton took this one of Tzaddi that I thought was too good to pass up!

We had planned to kickoff our holiday season with ROEL - celebrating Rowan's birthday (RO) and Christmas (NOEL).  Due to the whole cancer thing, we decided it would be better celebrated on a smaller scale with just the family.  Rowan would have been TEN this year - WOW!   


This is the first year where BOTH of the boys could sing a Christmas carol - and they learned Jingle Bells.  Here's a shot of them singing together...too cute!



The official Christmas celebration began with Nick's Annual Birthday Pancake Breakfast.  They had a great turnout and it's such a fantastic way to begin the Christmas festivities.  








Before bed, the boys put out cookies and milk for Santa.

We took a pic of the tree before the presents were demolished...after Santa dropped his off, of course :) 

We had an absolutely awesome Christmas.  The boys were so good all day long...we even slept in and probably finished unwrapping presents around 11.  I definitely think it was our Best Christmas Ever!  




After presents, we decided to let the boys watch their first ever Star Wars movie.  Santa brought Tzaddi  the entire series, so we started with The Phantom Menace.  Here's some video of the boys going insane during one of the fight scenes!

After the movie, we went over to Cannington Manor to finish celebrating with the whole family.  Opening presents is pure chaos!  





After dinner and presents, we took a walk down the street to look at all the Christmas lights.  And guess who was there taking a break???
SANTA!
The kids were ecstatic!


Tzaddi and I took the boys to see their first ever movie - in a theater!  We watched Walking with Dinosaurs and they had a great time.

We were lucky enough to get tickets to the Holiday Bowl (courtesy of Nick) and saw ASU get their butts beat.  It was quite a letdown for us (Dad and Angela are ASU grads) but we still had a blast!  Although it was FREEZING! 



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