Christmas 2

Christmas Eve we went to Mary's to celebrate her bday and eat, scrumptious food, play fun game (Farkle), back at home we read the Christmas story, opened the traditional one present and scooted kiddies off to bed,. Well, one kiddie then we had two helpers. I think Laura enjoyed it. We didn't don our kerchief and cap until 2:00 am and of course the kids were up at 6:00, I'm proud to say we were right there with them.

I have no idea why we're hugging (maybe the Christmas pjs), but I love the picture :)

feigning sleep (can you see the giggles coming forth?)

They're ready for Christmas morning...bring it on (if only mommy and daddy were)

After Santa came...Hannah calls these the "set ups"

Santa doesn't wraps, but names are necessary, cause great goodness if he didn't

and I happen to know this little house gave Santa some trouble in more ways than one

Christmas 1

We pretty much failed on taking pics during the month of december

The Sunday before Christmas at my mom's

Christmas Eve in Florida...short sleeves and pillow pets from pa paw (that's mountainese for Grandpa/daddy).

and...Batting

talking over wood and planning to organize it all, we did that new year's day woohoo

running

biking

swinging



pa paw :)

Our cat snuggled up under the Christmas tree :)..I forgot he was there and was tossing presents on him. apparently he didn't mind.

More Christmas to come :) :) :)...where is the dislike button for uploading pics to blogger????

Kidnapped!

These two children were taken from their school with a surprise visit to the library (to kill time). Also wondering why their little sister got to stay at GRandma's and they didn't. Then they were blindfolded and told no secrets could be revealed of their destination(s). As the evidence above proves they were miserable, begging, giddy, itchy (Laura), restless, dying to know their location. They are finally able to exit the van and hear a familiar sound and ask if it's daddy (the hard to disguise sound of the yoda) and I tell them it's a motorcyle. We enter a door and they smell smells and ask them to guess, they're not sure and it's ....Wendy's! One of their favorite places to eat AND yes their daddy is there (bad timing on my part). We all enjoy a meal together and we ask them if it was worth being kidnapped and they're ho hum.

We leave Wendy's and tell them they have to put on the blindfolds....again!!! dun dun dun dun (or however that goes). By the way, Cole guesses within the first few guesses of where we're going, but me knowing Cole tell them right off I will not tell them even if they guess right (ruin my fun.. I don't think so). So they're giddy, restless and such again and we end up at the movies. Not something we do especially new releases. You have lay down some serious dough for that business. But I happened upon some cheapish cereal boxes with movie passes for every two you bought. I cut them out and tucked away the boxes so they wouldn't be suspicious. We went to see the third Narnia movie. It was really good. C.S. Lewis = awesomeness.

And then it was over, although of course we teased them about putting on the blindfolds again. They said they enjoyed being kidnapped. I love to surprise them...so much fun! Have to start working on my next one ;)

Oh and Hannah nanna had a great time at mom's. We certainly would've kidnapped her too, but she's pretty much scared of her own shadow, which is fine, but Narnia and she would not mix. She got her own surprise with starting the morning thinking she was going to school when she didn't want to and ended up going to Grandma's so it was good for her too.