Sunday, December 26, 2010

Christmas 2010

Christmas has come and gone for another year and it has left behind a tornado of tissue paper, ribbon, scraps of wrapping paper, and more leftovers than you can imagine.  We had a wonderful Christmas jam-packed full of family, friends, a few parties, and more gifts than a person can imagine.  It started with the kid's Christmas program and Christmas Eve mass at church.  Mom and dad stayed Christmas Eve and did Christmas morning with us.  Then Jesse's family came Christmas afternoon and evening and we celebrated with them.  Here are a few pictures of all the festivities:

We visited Santa at his Candy Castle earlier in the week.
 


Jacob and Pa


Kaylee & Nana


Pa & Anden


Jacob with his new camera/MP3 player


My dad's sister gave him a very special gift this year.  She put their early home movies onto DVD's.  The kids thought it was pretty neat watching their Pa come home from the hospital as a newborn.  I enjoyed seeing my Grandparents as young wipper-snappers (as they would say) and we watched as President Harry Truman made a train-stop visit to Kokomo in 1948.  


Kaylee with Lily


Anden grunting as he carried his gift across the living room.


Anden with his Godparents ~ Aunt Jenny & Uncle Daryl


Kaylee with her karaoke machine.



Now we know where Anden gets it...

 
I hope all of you had a blessed Christmas! 

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Sunday, December 5, 2010

St. Nick

St. Nick came last night and filled our stockings! 
And with him he brought our elf Evan! 
Welcome back Evan!  I've missed you! 
Maybe you can whip these kids into shape just in time for Christmas! 

~The story behind Evan the elf is that each day, Evan keeps track of all the good things the kids do.  Then at night he flies back to share these things with Santa.  In the morning, the kids wake up and search for Evan because hopefully he's hiding in a new spot... cause if he's sitting in the same spot as yesterday, that means he didn't have anything good to share with Santa and well,
THAT'S JUST NOT GOOD!~


Here's what we woke up to this morning! 
Just a little dusting, but enough to make me want to snuggle under my cozy covers this morning.
The kids were too excited though to dig into their stockings.