Friday, December 28, 2012

Christmas 2012

Christmas is always so full of fun activities and one of my favorites is watching the kids perform their Christmas programs. Each year it is the same old songs but different children. Carlos is so animated but yet he was shy when he sang. Some days I wonder if he would like Tavacci like  Michaela and Carson did. He loves music.
 
 Carlos posing for a picture before the program starts
 Singing the Idaho Christmas song. This is my moms favorite song and it does have a lot of the West feel.
 Christmas at the Figueroa's . We got to stay home and enjoy lazy days here in Idaho. You need to be proud of Santa and Mrs. Santa. They did not start shopping till after the 20th this year because Mrs. Santa was in school and her studies and working full time kept her quite busy. We were successful however this year. YEAH!
 Carlos was so excited to get this book. He was one of the first to receive this book. They were not going to release it till after Christmas but the author decided to release it in time for Christmas. Carlos was very excited.
 Michaela and her excited face of a load of new clothes.
 Carson with his gifts. He was the hardest to buy for this year. So we had to improvise and he did get a cell phone this year. We will see how long he gets to keep it.
 Michaela with her haul of clothes and gifts
 Carson with his pile of Christmas gifts. He was being a turd so this was about as good as it gets for a smile.
 Carlos and his load of toys and presents. He was excited and enjoyed all that he received. He was the easiest to buy for.
 Carson being the cool dude he is with ribbon and his smile.
The day at grandmas and grandpas dividing the gifts. This year like the last Jody and Tate came home for Christmas. This year Jocelyn and Tyler hit the mother load. They had so much fun opening gifts and were so excited . It was a blast watching their expression after each unwrapping. Fun Christmas and hope next year I am a little more prepared. I did however try to stay not so stressed but I was a bit.

Carlos Scouting and awards

Carlos is fast approaching becoming a Weblos. He loves scouts and being with his friends. They have went through several scout leaders but each one has been great with the boys. This activity he received some belt loops and a patch for food drive.
 
 Here Carlos is receiving some of his awards.

 The boys and Carlos are writing letters to missionaries and for the pack meeting we were gathering canned food to help a family for the holidays.
A young scout wrote on the wrong missionaries paper so I creatively came up with this to cover up his writing and small picture. Thanks to my mom who taught us all how to make grass, trees and tick figure people.