Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve this year was the best. It was so relaxing as we got to sleep in! I was up until 2:00am the night before wrapping presents and getting ready for the upcoming days. I woke up at 9:45 and everyone was still asleep! It was great. We lounged around the house and got ready to go to Mom's for Christmas at her house.

Here is our tree before all of the presents starting to disappear! Miss. Claus - She saw this dress at Wal-Mart on Thursday and just HAD to have it. She looked pretty cute! We had lots of big presents this year

Kelby and Tea' love to match and since Grandmas buys them a ton of clothes they do it by accident most of the time! Cute tights girls! Jeremy and Diana opening the cool pics of the kids I got them

Grandma got the kids Sing-a-ma-gigs and the kids really had fun with them. They sure are annoying now though!! I can tell when the kids are not asleep at night when I hear them playing with these things in their beds.

Of course Tea' LOVED her rain boots we got her! She even wore them on Christmas day! She wore a hole in the ones of Kelby's that we passed down to her so she need a her own new pair.

Check out these cute rain/cowboys boots we got Diana

Grandma got the kiddos these small sized camping chairs and they loved them! Tea' carried hers all over the house and then when we put in Hunters new Despicable Me movie, they of course had to sit in them.

Jeremy talked Kaila into giving him a back massage

Mom made me this super cool FallsFest book of my last 2 years of Directing but I don't have any pictures of me opening it. It was such a thoughtful present and I will treasure it forever! Thanks Mom!

You can click on this picture and go to the link to view the book:

The Whole Group

After Mom's we went to the Christmas Eve service at our church, Colonial. It was nice and the kids enjoyed getting to come to the "big church" instead of their classes.

After church, we went over to Kirk's house to see all of his family. The kids enjoy seeing some of the little ones there and playing with some of the bigger ones. I didn't take in my camera so sorry that I have no pictures to post! I'll do better next year!

Christmas at Dad's

This year we got together on Thursday evening at Dad's house to have our Christmas. We all have so many places to go so in order to enjoy each other's company and have some good time together we just do it a few days early. The kids always love playing with all of their cousins.

Mamaw and Baeleigh The boys showing them how to start a fire out back

Lisa and Nanny

Kolby

Waiting for present time!

Trying out the new bench

Kaden - don't know where all of those chins came from!

Kylie and Kaden

Tre's CRAZY face!

Little Maddison

One of the crosses that Jeremy and Diana made from my old fence

Chaos

Look at my new skates and gear!

Kel and Baeleigh got lots of dress-up shoes!

Check out my new Pop Star outfit!

We had to get out the Karoke machine!

Laura and I had a much better song than Jeremy - Summer Lov'n!

Gigi let the kids sing too!

Aunt Diana and Maddison Dancing

The whole group!

Monster Swing Set

Wednesday night after the carriage ride the kids spent the night with Granny and Papa so that Eric and Kirk could start on the surprise swing set Thursday morning. I went and picked up the kids, did some Christmas shopping, had lunch with our friends, watched Tangled at the theatre, went to Wal-Mart and then went home to see the surprise. I didn't tell them anything was going on but Kelby noticed it through the curtains immediately when we got home! It was priceless to see how excited they were.

Kirk was trying to run from the camera but I still caught him.

Thanks Daddy and Kirky for all of your hard work!

Carriage Ride

This year we went on the carriage ride through the Country Club again but we got the LARGE carriage! Leeroy got to sit with us and we had so much fun! It was cold but definately not blizzard weather like last year!

John and Laurie and their crew had a ride at the same time as us so our carriages stayed together.All piled in the carriage to stay warm This is Kelby's favorite tree but I didn't get a very good picture of it.

After the ride, the kids fed the horses some apples

The guy said if it bit Kelby like at FallsFest, he would beat it!