The Cunningham Family

1.15.2015

Christmas Feast

The morning after the Christmas recital, the boys and I headed over to the school for an assembly and community feed.

We had been up late the night before (two hours past the boys' strict 7:00pm bedtime) so Wyatt was really difficult during the assembly.

Finally he said he wanted Josh, and Josh was done with his part of the assembly, so he held him, and lo and behold that little buddy fell asleep.

The twins were enamored with the idea that Wyatt fell asleep like a baby.

They kept saying, "Isn't he just so cute? Wyatt is soo cute!"

So Josh sat with him in the gym as the twins and I headed into the cafeteria to chow down.

We waited in line,

and Josh held that sweet boy & visited with Isaac and Peter.

Seeing him hold that boy made me swoon.

He's such an amazing father.

And it was nice for the twins to have my undivided attention. We enjoyed every bite of our Christmas feast and shortly after the twins finished, Wyatt woke up so he and Josh joined us.

That afternoon everyone flew out to go "home for the holidays", and we excitedly began our three-week vacation with Josh home.

Christmas Recital

Every year the school puts on an evening Christmas Recital, and every year my kids have been sick & we've missed it. I was so happy to make it this year!

I loved the background... "Let it snow... Please!"

We have had very little snow this year and are desperate for more!

The following pictures are of Josh's class performing. They did an awesome job, and bless Josh's soul because he said "yes" to singing Let It Go, which meant every afternoon he came home humming, "... the cold never bothered me anyway." The kids were tickled to sing it, albeit a little shy.

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And Sol's class:

5th/6th Grade

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Samantha's Class:

2nd/3rd Grade

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Krista's Class:

1st/2nd Grade

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Leah's Class:

{kindergarten}

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Kevin's Yupik Performance:

Then the entire school did a traditional Yupik Eskimo dance with the Yupik Teacher.

It was so neat.

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That night our boys received a very generous gift. A woman in the village sewed them each (unbeknownst to me) a kuspik. A kuspik is a traditinal Yupik garment that everyone wears to events like Eskimo Dancing and Potlucks.

The boys look absolutely adorable in them.

After the performances were over, we got a visit from Mrs. Clause!

She gave out candy bars and adorable hand made wooden trucks.

I am so glad we were able to make it out to celebrate the holidays with our school family and the community this year.

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1.14.2015

Christmas Day

For my sister, finally (!), our Christmas day!

The boys slept through the night and at 6:15 their little feet padded down the hallway into our bedroom to wake us up.

Josh went downstairs ahead of us to turn on the Christmas lights and then we let the boys go down and see what Santa brought.

Lots of Legos.

Josh and I agree this is probably our last year buying Lego Duplo for the twins.

Wyatt was tickled pink that he got the Planes Lego set he wanted so bad.

And the twins loved that Santa ate bites of each cookie we left him on the coffee table.

Josh and I just sat on the couch once they settled in and watched their sweet faces.

{Robin Sumner, you sweet fellow twin mama.... The boys loved everything you sent. The Kinex (huge hit with Jack), the dinosaurs and the awesome tattoos as well. And this mama loved the pens & adorable notepads. Thank you for your thoughtfulness and generosity.}

I had this book growing up and am excited share all the classic nursery rhymes with the boys.

The boys got "road tape" for their matchbox cars that I'm super excited to pull out one of these days when we need an activity to occupy our afternoon.

They also got geodes which we cracked open last week. What a fun experiment for my three little boys! (More on that to come...)

After opening presents we had our classic Christmas morning cinnamon rolls & milk for breakfast. I love that Wyatt instinctively unrolls his (the "proper" way to eat them) and that Logan has since said his favorite tradition in our family is Christmas morning cinnamon rolls.

The boys were very excited to open their giant present from Grandma & Papa Cunningham.

New sleds!!!

We saved the biggest present (a seriously GIANT moving box) from Josh's cousin Nathan & wife Dunnette for the afternoon. In it were some great gifts for the kids-- t-shirts, jammies and watches-- as well as some great gifts for us-- a phone cover for Josh, a book & some essential oils for me, and the best gift of all, a Soda Stream!