Christmas Day

Christmas is always my favorite time of year. I love to give presents! It is one of my favorite things to do. I can hardly wait to see my kids open their presents and see the excitement in their eyes and on their faces. I kind of live vicariously through them. We always get up extra early Christmas morning and open presents. Then we go to my mom and dad's for Christmas breakfast. This year it was Biscuits and Gravy, hash browns, and scrambled eggs! YUM! Then for lunch we went to Nathan's mom and dad's house. It was a great day! I am sad that it is all over (and I have to clean up the destruction left behind)! Logan loves his Mickey Mouse Chair he got from Nana and Papa! He has been obsesssed with Mickey for a couple of months now!
Steve and Rachael, Kaleb and Adrienne, Me and Nathan, Kim, Melissa (and Desmond), Hayley and Aaron, and Lonny.
Everyone is wearing the hats Amanda made for them. Except for me. I am wearing the stocking she made for me! Yeah, I am pretty special!

Isaac and Wes in their hats!

Nathan was really excited to open presents!

The kids waiting for Mom and Dad's okay to go and see if Santa brought anything. If you look close enough at Nathan's alarm clock you can see what time we were up. I can't even blame it on the kids. I was awake most of the night and got tired of laying in bed so I got up and woke them all up. I am awful, I know. In case you can't read it it says 5:45!

Snow Fun!

We got tons of snow last night and today and the kids were in heaven! We couldn't find McKenna's snowpants so she couldn't go out and play :( but the other kids did. Logan even did, without snow pants or boots that fit. We put an extra pair of thick pants on him, and he wore boots that were 3 sizes too big, but he had a blast.

This is the field behind our house. Nathan thought it looked cool in the sunset. I think it looks more like water than snow.
Tackle Daddy!!

Isaac wouldn't look up long enough for me to get a picture of his face. He was having too much fun. He didn't want to come in and when he did he asked to go back out a few minutes later!

It looks like Logan is kneeling down but he is standing up. I promise! That is how deep the snow is.

Emilee caked in snow! Amazingly enough she didn't mind it. She wanted to go back out with Isaac. They are already asking me if they can go back out tomorrow.

Christmas Pics

Every year on the Sunday before Christmas, the kids get their new Christmas clothes and I take their pictures in front of the tree. Here are this years pics. I don't know how we got them all looking at the camera at the same time. That will never happen again!

I just have to brag about Emilee's dress. It was originally $60!!! I got it last year, on clearance, for $4!! I know, right! Amazing!!

Tooth #2

When Isaac was opening up his presents last night, I was paying no attention to Emilee until she yelled "I pulled it out!" I looked at her and she was holding a bloody tissue in her mouth but she had a huge grin on her face. She had pulled out her other bottom tooth. If you know Emilee then you understand that I was in shock that she would pull her own tooth out! I have been telling her since the other one came out that it wouldn't take much to get it out and obviously mom was right once again! I wish she wasn't scared to go to the dentist because she needs the other two bottom ones out so her new teeth move forward. If you look close in the picture, you can see the new ones growing in behind the other ones. McKenna scared her when she said that the dentist was going to pull them out. Yes, he needs to, but don't tell Emilee that. That makes my job of getting her to go even harder!!

Happy 4th Birthday Isaac!

My little boy is now 4! I wish I had pictures from when he was born to put up here but I can't find the CD my husband put them on. :( Oh well. Isaac has been really excited about his birthday for a couple of weeks. If anyone tried to tell him he was going to be anything but 4 he would get mad and tell them "NO! 4!". He requested his favorite foods for breakfast, they are fried eggs and sausage. He ate 4 sausages but didn't eat the eggs. That is really weird. And for dinner he wanted mac and cheese and hot dogs! At least it was easy, even if no one else wanted it! He got to go out and play in the snow with Nana, Papa, and Ginger (I finally found his snow boots I have been looking for for weeks!) and that was a highlight of the day! He told me he threw a snowball at Nana!Yay! A new toy that he will sit and play for hours! And it's okay because it is educational!! Double Yay! He has a Leapster but I think he is getting bored with it. Now he has a V-Smile Pocket. We already have a V-Smile so we already had a ton of games for it and I got it on sale the day after Thanksgiving! Triple Yay!!
He loves new clothes! He must take after his mom!

Yes, he is a mess. This is after breakfast but before I got him cleaned up.

Eating the sausage mom made for breakfast! I don't know how many he has in his mouth!

Does It Get Any Cuter!?!

Logan wore the cutest outfit to church last week! It actually used to be Isaac's but Isaac never would wear the hat. Logan loves hats! He did not want his picture taken, however! Usually he hams it up for the camera but not on this particular day. He ran into the corner and tried to hide. Oh well, that made the pics cuter if you ask me!