Saturday, December 31, 2011

HAPPY NEW YEAR! (a little early)

Well, we just rang in the (almost) New Year with our own little celebration. I'm posting this so soon because Joe is working tonight so this way he can kind of celebrate with us tonight.


We pulled up the countdown in Sydney, Australia on YouTube and joined in! The kids had a blast with the noise-makers, confetti, and all the stuff they could find to drum on to make lots of noise!




HaPpY nEw YeAr!!!






We love you, Daddy! See you next year!

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

A look at our merry little Christmas...



New pajamas and slippers on Christmas Eve





Christmas morning all ready to go to church. (Since church is at 9am waited until afterward to open our presents. But we did check out our stockings before!)

These are the Family Trees I made for our parents this year. It took quite a bit of planning to balance it all out but they turned out nice.




Williams . Chandler




The little quote at the bottom



About a week or so before Christmas we took the kids to the South Hills to see a Christmas lights display. It is at a private residence and there is no cost to check it out. We "ooo"-ed and "ah"-ed the whole time.



a view coming down the driveway from the main road






It T's off at the end of the driveway and you can pick which way you want to go...


the "Naughty" way or the "Nice" way. (Of course, we picked the "Nice" way!)






We met Bully the Mongolian camel. Joe fed him a carrot but the kids didn't want a turn after they watched Bully slime Joe's entire hand. Pretty gross but funny!






We heard a lot of "Ho! Ho! Ho!"-ing and came around the corner to meet Santa who was giving big candy canes in exchange for high fives!






The beautiful nativity










We had ourselves a Merry Christmas and wish you all a Happy New Year!