Opening Presents...

This process usually takes about 2 hours or more....the kids are VERY slow. Except Tyler who rips through his presents like there is no tomorrow....Kaydence was not very interested....but we were able to capture some where she at least looks like she is.

Christmas Day Santa!!

The kids had a BLAST having Santa come and visit!!! I love this part every year, and I never get tired of seeing their faces.....Santa left a note and ate cookies and the Reindeer even had their own food. Kinsey is NOT a morning person, so I was actually quite surprised her hands weren't over her face every picture....Kaydence and Tyler are my morning birds.......

Christmas #1 (Meme and PawPaws)

<---Madison and Kaydence

I know I am late in posting these. Better late than never right. We had Christmas eve at my moms house, it was a FULL house. All 5 of my moms grandbabies were there.......Thank God Madison and Kaydence are soooo easy going!!

All 5 grandkids below....

Here are some pics of my dad, Jeremiah, my grandma and the kids.....opening presents!!

Making Ginger Bread House!

Kinsey and her daddy decided to make a ginger bread house. Do you know how hard it was NOT to add it my 2 cents every 5 minutes. There is also a pic of Kaydence and what she was doing at the time.....

Kinsey and her daddy decided to make a ginger bread house. Do you know how hard it was NOT to add it my 2 cents every 5 minutes. There is also a pic of Kaydence and what she was doing at the time.....

The Butter Dish Comes in Handy!!

I couldn't resist posting up this pics. Of course this makes me look bad, as now you know what my tubberware looks like (AKA Country Crock Butter Bowl). Kaydence has a different use for it though.

Madison's 1st Birthday!!!

My precious little neice celebrated her first birthday Saturday evening. She looked absolutely precious. My sister in law made her a gorgeous blue tutu, and she had the prettiest birthday hat. The theme was snowflakes and Dianna went all out! Everything was snowflakes!! Even Madison looksed like one. It was so cute. The kids got to make miniature ginger bread houses, and snowflake ornaments. They played pin the carrot on the snowman. And of course the adults drank snowflake martinis. My sister in law always goes above and beyond for her kiddos birthdays. I am always jealous when I leave them. We of course had to leave my only neices 1st birthday party early, because of the Cowboy game (what a waste that ended up being).

Here is a pic of the beautiful birthday girl.

Christmas 2008

Well we had really good intentions on taking the kids to Little Elm Saturday to see the annual Christmas parade, tree lighting and visit with Santa. I planned ahead and looked online first thing Saturday to see what time the parade started. I had everyone rearing and ready to go, and we were actually going to be on time. Well we get to Little Elm park and sure enough the website was wrong. The parade had finished approx. 15-20 minutes before we got there. The day was not a total waste though. The kids got to eat some pizza, watch the tree lighting and of course visit with the Big Guy himself Santa Claus. Tyler this year did not want to sit on Santas lap. He said he was too shy....not real sure what that was all about, perhaps he is starting to question things.....who knows. Kinsey of course decided to give Santa a HUGE long list of things. Santa finally had to tell her to take a pause and look at the camera. I think next year we will have her just give him her list, because there is quite a long line. Kinsey did ask though, "How come he doesn't talk like the real Santa?". I do not remember being that observant when I was a kid. Kaydence, of course starting screaming the INSTANT I let go of her. I was able to back up enough for a picture and then swooped in to rescue her. She is such a chicken.....I figured she would at least stare at him for a few minutes and then freak out. Nope, that didn't happen. Here are some pics of the day! Somehow I manage to never get a decent pic with all 3 of the kids together.....