After the birthdays and anniversary we did Christmas...
My mom wanted a picture of Jade all dressed up in front of the Christmas tree; we all know how much Jade loves getting her picture made, so it took a while to get some good ones!
Since Jade had already left when we decided to take pictures at Thanksgiving I took a Christmas family picture of Allison, Matt, and Jade.
Here are a few of my mom's pretty Christmas decorations:
This is my dad's Cowboy Christmas area! You can also see his cowboy boot stocking in the picture above.
Jade played Santa and passed out all of the gifts.
Here she is trying to read through the wrapping paper on one of my gifts!!
Jade was the first to open her presents, she got lots of cute clothes and pajamas that she LOVED!!
And of course lots of toys and games too!! She was definitely more excited about the toys!
My dad got this personalized mug and plate for Jade to leave milk and cookies for Santa. They are engraved, if you click on the picture and look closely you can see the engraving.
Allison and I got my mom and dad photo albums from our weddings. I made one of our wedding a while ago and my mom wanted one, so when I decided to make Allison one (and it took me until THIS Christmas to finish it) we decided they would be good gifts for Christmas.
There is no doubt that my lovely sister likes to take goofy pictures:
There was also one that she took of herself, I am not going to put that one on here though because it isn't very becoming!
That's better! my parents got us little digital picture frames:
Allison's hanging jewelry box that has places to put pictures on the front, perfect gift for her!
Here is me with my matching digital picture frame, which could be a whole other post of it's own, but to make a long story short I had to take it back and get a different one from a different store.
Matt with one of his gifts, Allison's head was in the way of all the other pictures!
Evidently we had put up the camera by the time Chris got there after the Titans' game because I don't have any pictures of him with his gifts!
Last but not least our Christmas family picture, we usually take one every year. Ignore the strange colors, it had a blue tone to it so I had to doctor it quite a bit.
Don't ignore the fact that the Star of David is reflecting in the mirror though! When Allison and I saw this it kind of freaked us out! We have no clue what caused the reflection!!
We had a great Christmas!!
Our not-so-successful attempt at a picture with all the little kids. I find it funny that the boys are just sitting there minding there own business and it is the GIRLS that are jumping up and running off!!
Everyone (almost everyone) anxiously awaiting Santa!!
He came!!
Alexander was thrilled, at Thanksgiving dinner we asked him what he was thankful for and he promptly said "SANTA!!"
Samuel was definitely not thrilled, he was scared to death. Poor thing!
Sydney enjoying her goodies!
Here is Ben showing me what he got in his stocking, he got lots of cool toys he was excited about!
Grace got a really neat doll and LOTS of accessories to go with it!
That's better, Samuel did warm up and enjoy opening ALL his presents!
Nice face Josh!
Mimi and Paps got a neat photo book and several other things!
Watch out Sydney! Don't fall over the "aftermath!"
That's a LOT of boxes!!!
We had a great Christmas and I think the kids all had a great time! Stay tuned for Christmas 2009, it is sure to be just a little more crazy with baby Colin in the mix!
