Christmas Part 2

Christmas Part 2 includes our family's Christmas morning at home...just the 5 of us :-) and Christmas Eve at Grandma Sabrina's and Grandpa John's. Picture Overload Alert!!!

Santa came!! The Jolly Old Fellow brought Landon a new green and black bike (just like he asked him for :)) and the girls got Dora tricycles. He also brought the kids Happy Nappers (2 ladybugs and a dragon), a hot wheels motorcycle racing thingy for Landon and Dora guitars for the girls. Each child got a new book from St. Nick as well :) They also had about 7 or 8 gifts each from Mommy and Daddy to open. After seeing the gift outcome of all 5 of our family Christmas', I think I'll cut down on the gifts from us next year. The toy situation at my house right now is out of control!

Chris' mom Sabrina and stepdad Amadeo (aka John) have a big Christmas Eve party every year. There were probably about 20-30 people there...not just family, but some of our family's closest friends, as well. Santa even showed up with his elves! And once again, my children were spoiled rotten with all kinds of great gifts!

Allie.Emily (yes, I'm labeling my daughters again :) Dont want to ever forget who is who!)

Emily.Allie

The day wouldn't be complete without a good wrestling match! Allie is the screamer here.

I couldnt keep Emily off of Anda's walker :-/

Sweet little Allie :)

Great Grandma Anda!

Lots of family and friends!

I LOVE this picture. Em is looking at a photo of herself during Christmas 2009...same date, same place. My how she has grown! Tooooo fast :-(

Emily (otherwise known as sassy pants)

Landon with Caleb and Tyler (Dr. Hood's boys)

Adorable Austin!!

The funniest part of this picture to me is the Woody toy all sprawled out on the floor. He looks like he's been through the ringer...

Emily grabbing the gift from Santa's elf as fast as possible...hence the bluriness. The girls were not having Santa yet again this year.

Allie making her fast getaway.

This kid was hilarious! Rather than doing his duty as an elf, he was way more interested in Landon's Star Wars gift :-) Landon kept looking at him all weird. I could tell he was thinking "Are you an elf or a kid? Did you make this Star Wars toy for me?" hahaha!! The look on Landon's face was priceless. He was really trying to figure this elf slash kid out :-)

We were able to get Em on the elf's lap, but Allie wansn't having it one single bit.

Hanging out with friends and family!

Stay tuned for Christmas Part 3. Still gotta blog about Christmas at Nommie and Poppy's and Christmas at Donna and Grandpa's!

Christmas Part 1

Im thinking my Christmas post is gonna have to be broken up into several different posts being that we had 5 different Christmas celebrations! It was definitely a chaotic, tiring holiday season, but we LOVED every minute of it. Today's post includes some Christmas cookie and ice cream making, a visit w Santa (lets just say 2 of my 3 children would prefer Santa to just go away), and our first Christmas celebration at my moms house in Granbury.

I'll start off by sharing a pic of my nerdy Christmas feet. Yes...I'm the geek who likes to wear festive gear and have my pedicure done to match the season :)

Aunt Steph, Uncle Shaun, and Cousin Keagan gave Landon an ice cream maker for Christmas. We had a fun, messy time making some chocolate ice cream!

We baked/iced Christmas cookies for Santa (and ourselves :)) Not sure why I only snapped a pic of Allie. If I had to guess, I'd say the the other 2 weren't cooperating with yet another photo shoot :)

Landon asked for a green and gray big boy bike without training wheels.

The pretties weren't fans of Santa last year...or this year :-/

Nana and Bud spoiled the kids as usual :-) I'm pretty sure Landon holds the world record for The Fastest Present Opener EVER. Emily was pretty quick too, but Allie took her time. She wanted to play with/try on everything she opened before moving on to the next gift. I'm going to label the pics of the girls just in case I cant tell them apart later down the road. That has actually happened many times before. There are so many unlabeled pics of the girls as babies that I cant distinguish between the 2 now :-(

Emily

Emily, Allie

Allie

Emily

Allie

Allie

Landon and daddy playing football

Emily, Allie

Allie

I'm always behind the camera, so this is the only pic I have of myself...my feet. This posts starts with my feet and ends with my feet. Weird. Oh well, all I know is this pic was taken after the mad dash of gift opening and I was so happy to sit by the fire and relax. Aweeeee....

Stay tuned for Christmas Part 2 and 3 (maybe 4 too). I've got a lot more fun to share!

Girls Annual Christmas Party and a few cute pics of the kiddos, of course :)

Their shirts may say they heart Santa, but in reality, they want NOTHING to do with him.

My new iphone has an edit option for my pictures. I got rid of the red eye in these two, but apparently I uploaded the unedited ones :-/

Emily Grace

Allie Kathryn

Landon Christopher


I have an AMAZING group of girls that I have called my best friends for 17 years now. Every year, we have a Girl's Christmas Party. Last year, we started a new tradition of going down to Heather's family lakehouse in Granbury for a Christmas party/sleepover. We shopped around on the square for a little while, went to a wine tasting at a local vineyard, ate dinner at a local Mexican restaurant, then went back to the house for cocktails and our gift exchange. Johnna made a slideshow dvd of lots of our favorite music and pictures. It was so good!!!! Another neat thing we do every year is write down predictions for the upcoming year, and then read them aloud at the following year's Christmas party. We still have to do that this year though, because we forgot to bring our predictions down to Granbury. Oh well...just another reason to get together again sometime soon :) I love my girlfriends so much and would not be the person I am today without them!! We have been through everything together!! I didnt get many pictures, but I'll be stealing some from Ivy when she gets hers up :)

At the Barking Rocks Winery and Vineyard. We are missing 5 of our girls due to newborn babies, having to work, no babysitter, etc etc. We missed you Kara, Stevi, Brooke, Amy, and Kelli!!! We were so excited Kendra made it in from San Antonio for the party this year!!!!

We made a pit stop at Bootleggers to pick up some important goods :)

I'm back!!!!!!!

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