Saturday, December 25, 2010

Christmas Dinner

We have had a busy couple of days enjoying all of our Christmas festivities. Tonight we had dinner at our house. We have it every year and it is very casual. Everyone just shows up and eats whenever they can. It's nothing fancy but it's always so fun to see everyone. As the years have gone by we have drastically reduced the number of family members that live around here so our party seems to constantly get smaller but those of us left here still have a great time getting together.
I don't think anyone was ready for this picture. We all look kind of stunned. :)
Aaron and Marsha.
Jim and Marilyn playing Alex's new game with him.
Brianne managed to get the chair all to her self. I think Phil is off getting pie with lots of whip cream on it!!!!!!!
Sandy and Bill were not to happy about getting their picture. This is the best that you get.
We had a really fun few days that went by way to fast. It is always great to get to spend time with family and friends during the holiday's. I hope that everyone has had a great Christmas and is now looking forward to a very happy new year!!!!!

Christmas Breakfast

After we got our Santa gifts opened this morning we headed down to Jim and Marilyn's house. We opened some presents with them and then had a very tasty breakfast.
Megan and Marilyn.
Alex and Jim.
Mike and Alex
Alex got lots of XBox360 stuff that he wanted. He was very excited.
Megan got the Ipod Touch that she has been wanting. She was very excited!!!!!!
I got these shoes that I have been wanting. Notice how they nicely match the toe socks that Santa gave me. It's like they were meant to go together.
Mike got a case thing for a gun that he has. I know it has a more technical name but I am not really sure what it is.
We had a fun morning with everyone and got some more great gifts. Now we are getting ready to have everyone over for dinner. Some more Holiday fun to look forward to!!!!!!

Santa Arrived

We got up this morning to discover that Santa had arrived during the night. Alex was really excited about it but Megan was annoyed that Alex woke her up.
Alex got underwear from Santa. You can never go wrong with socks and underwear!!!!!
Oh my, Megan got underwear also. What a coincidence.
Oh my gosh, these are my feet and what am I wearing? New socks. I love them.
Mike even got new underwear from Santa but he also got this wonderful car charger for his cell phone. To bad Santa bought the wrong thing!!!!! :)

Friday, December 24, 2010

Christmas Eve

After our fun Santa picture adventure we came back home to get dinner ready for my Dad and Bonnie. They came over and we had dinner and opened our gifts.
We didn't have anything to exciting to eat. Ham was the specialty of the night.
Alex and I. He was getting so anxious about opening his gifts. It was driving him crazy.
Mike and Alex.
Alex, Bonnie, and Megan. I hadn't realized how close in height they all were until they all stood next to each other for this picture.
This was the best I could get of them.
Me, Grandpa, Megan, and Alex.
Megan, Bonnie, Grandpa, and Alex.
Megan got Alex a pillow pet and he seemed to really like it. :)
Megan was so excited to get the Toy Story 3 movie from the Keyes. She has been hoping for this one.
We had a fun night and now we are all ready for tomorrow.
Merry Christmas!!!!!!

Oh Santa........

It is Christmas Eve and we haven't made a trip to the mall to see Santa yet. We weren't going to go because the kids really didn't want to and I don't have the patience but at 2:00 this afternoon we decided we needed to go.
Everytime we have gone to the mall during this past month I have thought that we needed to get pictures by this huge tree so I got the chance to take one today since both kids were actually with me.
This is the whole tree. It is big.
We had good and bad news when we got down to Santa. The good news was that he was there, real beard and all. The bad news is the line was about 2 hours long and Santa was five minutes away from a 30 minute break. Looking on the positive side that was atleast a 2 1/2 hour wait to see a fat man in a fancy red suit. NO!!!!!!
We decided to take our own pictures instead. Notice in between Megan and Alex, It's the big red guy. We have the real Santa in our picture!!!!!!! :)
This one is by far my favorite. It is a picture of Santa on the wall that we stood by and took a picture of. It's almost like they really got to see Santa and it only took 5 minutes and saved us $25.00. What a perfect picture!!!!!! :)

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Choir concert

Megan had her choir concert on Thursday night so we went down to watch. They did a really good job and sounded beautiful.
Megan, Gillian, and Olivia. Wonder how they all ended up right next to each other????
The whole choir. There are a lot of kids up there.
Megan's friend Sana, she is in the orchestra.
Megan looking annoyed because she didn't love the song they were singing!!!!!
Gillian looking good!!!!
Olivia is so excited. She was stuck behind a tall boy and he was constantly getting in my camera's way!!!!
Maggi is in the band.
They are such a musical group. :) They all sounded really good and it was a fun night.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Christmas Tree Shopping

We spent all day Sunday getting our Christmas tree and putting it up. We were going to wait one more week to get it but the weather was nice last Sunday and it's suppose to rain this Sunday. I don't like to be wet or cold so the dry Sunday was the winner.
We started off at Denny's. It seemed silly to make breakfast at home when we were actually leaving the house early enough to eat breakfast out. We rarely go out to breakfast because we just don't move that fast in the mornings. Alex at breakfast. He always LOVES to eat!!!!!
We are back at the Snow Shoe tree farm. We go back to the same place every year. They have a huge selection of trees and they drill a hole in the bottom for our stand so there is no work at straightening it at all when we get home. Hammer in the base and decorate!!!!!
This year we actually cut down our own tree. Last year we were kind of lazy so we just walked out into the trees and took a picture and then went back up front and bought one of the ones already cut. We did all the work this year.


Here they are cutting it down. Proof that we actually did it. :)
Alex is helping with the lights. Megan actually did most of them but Alex took a good picture acting like he was helping.
The almost final tree. We got a bunch of new bulbs this year for something different so we now have alot of trees in our house. Alex also has one in his room with all of our fun hallmark ornaments and normal ones that we usually put on the tree and we have one in the living room with all of my frosty friends. There is Christmas everwhere you turn in here.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

More of Megan's pictures

I think most everyone knows that Megan really likes being in charge of the camera. She always get some really cool pictures and on Sunday she stole the camera again. Here are a few of the pictures that she got this time.






I always love all of the pictures that Megan takes so it is fun to be able to share some of them. I think she is getting really good at taking them so stay tuned for her next masterpieces!!!!