Christmas 2009

Christmas morning was memorable, we awoke to no electricity. So we lit 50 tea lights and armed ourselves with flashlights.

Tiffany was over joyed with her American Girl Doll, she had been asking for her for over 6 months.

Tristan was pleased with his Game Stop gift card.

Tegan loved his Geo Trax Airplane.

We had a great Christmas morning.

In the evening we spent time with our cousins at Grandma's house.

Tegan's 3rd Birthday!

Tegan's 3!!! Group pictures are the hardest! Especially when the B-day boy doesn't want his picture taken.

We had a great Birthday day!

Christmas With My Girlfriends

Our Christmas get together with my girlfriends was a lot of fun! I love that we all enjoy reading, we love our kids, and we love chating about everything.

The kids loved playing together and working on there gingerbread houses. The kids took this on as a competitive adventure, boys vs girls...

They don't look to competitive here do they... maybe it was just the girls... I don't remember anymore how that played out. I just remember in the end the kids devouring this sweet treat!

Grandma's New Reading Glasses

Tiffany is my creative girl. She made these glasses out of pipe cleaners. Tiffany looks so cute in them. I wanted her to show Grandma, only Grandma became impatient so she put them on. I had to grab the camera.

As you can see Tiffany wasn't to happy that Grandma had her glasses on. A few seconds later though the glasses became Grandma's early Christmas gift to Grandma. Grandma's comment a little later "I can see better!" I looked at her puzzled, she said it so convincing. My reply "really?" She looked at me and gave me a look and said "No" silently. Once again we had to laugh out loud.

Life Is Good!

Catching up from the last post, we had the CSI retreat first of November in Merritt Island, Florida. Georgianna United Methodist hosted the retreat. They did a fantastic job of hosting all of us. I can't say enough good things about these wonderful people.

We had great fellowship and fun playing. Here are some of the CSI kids giving us a concert.
After the retreat we took some vacation time and had a great time at Disney.

Took in some mini golf.
We love the water!
We stayed at my favorite place again. Kidani Village at the Animal Kingdom. Here is one of our last pictures right before we left.

Disney put us into the Christmas spirit. We got the Christmas tree up and had the help of friends.
We also had one of the best Thanksgiving's, I will remember this as one of my favorites. Topped off with Mom crying and not being able to make it through what she was thankful for. Mom did all the cooking and did great!

I think we are all caught up. Well sorta.:)