Jeremy~Bonnie~Maci Rose ~ & ~ Carter


















Thursday, January 19, 2012

Christmas Eve's Eve, Eve, & Day

Christmas Eve's Eve (Friday night), we went to my inlaws to do Christmas. We had another appearance from Santa Claus (my brother in-law) and as always my kids wracked up sooo many presents I questioned whether Santa even needed to visit them.
Carter was scared again of course..
Since the family is getting so big, we all drew names this year. It was a lot of fun. Thanks Nana & Papa for having us and for all of our wonderful presents!
Carter was being his crazy silly self the whole way home which was waaaay past his bedtime.
Playing peek-a-boo.
Christmas Eve always starts off with church and then we all head to my grandmothers house to eat, exchange presents, and play a really fun game of dirty santa. The past few years we've left my grandmothers around 9:30 and gone to my Aunt's house (which is next door) to play games all night. It sure makes for a lot of laughter and a late Christmas Eve!

 Carter with my cousin's little boy (and my godchild) Landen.
 And these next few are sadly the only pictures I got of my children in their Christmas outfits.

And then we all changed clothes & opened presents!
 The kids get so many presents that we make them pick one to play with and we open all the other ones in the morning so we don't lose all the parts before we even get home. Maci Rose chose her new horse barn.
Aunt Aimee, who many say she looks like.
 And then came the photo shoot, trying to get all the grandkids in one place at one time and all looking at the camera and smiling. Even though we try every year it's NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!
 That's my 75 year old grandmother in the front!

And then we did our imediate family.
 Haha...love this one! Matt is in mid-sneeze.


 All 3 kids + Jeremy.
So much fun! It's the one night I look forward to every year.

Christmas Day

We went to Aunt Mary's house to eat and open even more presents with my cousins on my dad's side of the family!
I know it's almost a month later but I hope everyone had a very blessed Christmas and Happy New Year. I know we did!

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Christmas Happenings

First, I must appologize for the quality of these pictures (not that I usually have great pics or anything) but most of these are off my phone. One of my New Years Resolutions is to take more pictures this year and to remember to bring my camera with me more often & actually take it out of my purse every once in a while!! I need major improvement in this department.

Other things we did around here before Christmas include...




Trying out all the cool rides while Christmas shopping.










Playing dirty santa at my Aunt and Uncle's Christmas party.



Using our new magic bullet blender to make yummy smoothies.

Maci Rose had jingle jammie day at school.
Went to lots of Christmas parties and sang many songs along the way. (I've tried to upload the videos a million times so hopefully I can do a follow up post on that)


And visited Santa at Bass Pro Shops.




 He was scared of Santa the second he saw him. Even when we were in the back of a huge line.


And here is the famous Santa pose that made it on our Christmas cards this year. Yes, crouch grabbing and all!

We went to eat with my parents the other day and a man came in with white hair and a long white beard and Carter wouldn't quit staring at him and pointing saying "San Claw". I think he may be scarred for life. Let's hope not!

Maci Rose had her Christmas program at her school.




She is currently in the 10th percentile on height and weight which we discovered after seeing how small she was compared to the rest of the kids in her class. She weighs 28 pounds and is 37 inches tall. Maybe she'll have a growth spurt between now and April when she turns 4 or maybe she'll be short like her mama. We'll see!


Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Christmas Tradition

Ever since I can remember my cousins and I have gotten together before Christmas to make gingerbread houses and cookies for Santa. It is so fun to still carry it on through our kids. Although we still make jokes that it's technically more for us than them!


 Carter ate every piece of candy we handed him to put on the house.






 Making cookies for Santa...






The weather was really bad that day, so Carter was our weatherman keeping us informed.
 And thanks to Pinterest we also added homemade handprint Santa ornaments this year. I think they turned out so cute!!