Monday, December 31, 2012

Christmas 2012

The kids got up around 8:15 on Christmas morning.  Here are the gifts that Santa left for everyone.  


So excited!
Evan got his Big Mack he has been asking for
Charlotte already sitting in front of her Ariel mirror
Ellie asked for Ursula and got lots more goodies from Santa
Ripping into their presents

Zona got to join in on the fun during stocking time
After all the excitement & lunch we headed over to grandmother & granddaddy's house
More presents

We had a wonderful day together celebrating Jesus' birthday.  

Friday, December 28, 2012

The Days before Christmas

We have a few busy days before Christmas.  We met up with Aunt Janice to celebrate her birthday & Christmas.  She gave them some new games and they had to try them out with her.  
 We had a Happy Birthday Jesus party at church.  
 We delivered presents and sang a carol for Builder Eric & Jessica.  
 Had Christmas at Naw's
 Christmas Eve was finally here.  They were so excited.  
 The girls dressed in Christmas pink
My good looking guys
 On the way to Lisa & Joe's we stopped for our annual Christmas Eve donuts


 Cousins ready for the presents
Michelle played us some Christmas music and the girls wanted to join in.   
 This little boy had so much fun opening presents this year.  He was always so excited for each gift and would say "Look, I wanted that"
 Joe and the kids
 Matthew, Michelle & Lisa
 Look at all those gifts
 He loved the sword Victoria gave him
 Bubbles for Ellie
 Our precious Princess
 At the church musical Ellie said we had pizza for Christmas, so we stopped and picked one up for Christmas Eve dinner.  
 We had to make Santa some cookies


 Of course we had to try them out.  
Christmas pajamas
 Reading the Christmas story before bed.  
We told the kids to listen for the jingle bells then they would know that Santa was there.  Around 3:30 am Ellie had to go to the bathroom so she was crying for us and was saying - "I've got to go to the bathroom, I'll go right back to sleep, I haven't heard the jingle bells."  She just kept saying it over and over.  It was just too cute not to share, plus I didn't want to forget it.  

Up Next - Christmas Day

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

See ya next year Erlo

On Thursday Erlo surprised the kids with a camping trip.  He had a string in the mailbox, out the door to the camper.  

 We found him in the camper with some new camper toys.  
We went to Fort Yargo State park. We picked Michelle up and she came with us.  We had a rough 1st night with the 40 mph winds.  Luckily we survived.  

 Friday we went to Chuck E. Cheese to play some games since Ellie has been sleeping with a sock on her hand to help her stop sucking her thumb.  They had so much fun.  We stopped at the CRAZY mall too.  
 Saturday Michelle was the first to find Erlo.  He was hanging out in the bunk room with her, Ellie & Evan.  
After packing up and some breakfast we headed to the Mayfield Dairy.  

 We had an early morning ice cream snack.  
 Sunday he made it back in the house and was just hanging around.  He also left some Rudolph the red nosed reindeer suckers since we watched it Sat. night before bed.  
 Christmas Eve morning he was making sure Santa knew where to find him.  
The kids said good-bye to him and said see you next year.  

Thanks for the fun this year Erlo.