Merry Christmas

Heavy picture post below... We have been busy since my last Toy Story post. Was getting ready for Christmas, making cookies, going out of town. It is always a whirlwind in December. Jordan went with me to Vaden's for Cookie Fest 2010. She had fun playing with Vaden and they even helped with cookies a little bit.

The kids had a great Christmas Eve and Christmas. Jordan wanted a MP3 player and Austin wanted a DS. They both got them and Dylan got a race car set and puzzle block. He has really enjoyed it. We went out of town to Mooresville for a few days and saw the first snow on Christmas that NC has had in a long time. We still have snow at home. I think we got 10-12 inches but also a promise of 60 degree weather this coming weekend. The kids have been at daycare the past two days as Dan and I try to dig out from under everything. We still have a long way to go. I have made several Goodwill runs without the kids' input ; ) They will be home tomorrow for New Year's Eve. It is so hard to believe another year has come and gone. I can't believe I am on the verge of having a 2, 6 and 10 year old. Time just flies so fast.

Jordan and Vaden helping with Cookie Fest 2010

My sweet babies on Christmas Eve

Such a little man

Christmas Eve with Monkey

So excited to get DS games for his new DS

She loved the Tangled movie and was surprised to get a DS game

How to Train your Dragon Viking

Cousins on the trampoline at Uncle BJ's house

Great Grandma Williams reading a very speical story on Christmas Day

Being silly- best present ever

Rocking out on his guitar from Aunt Christy/Uncle Jason

Playing with Cousin Ethan

Favorite words during all this "Oh No, Snow"

So much fun sledding

Toy Story on Ice

I took the big kids  to Toy Story on Ice Sunday afternoon. It wasn't as good as the Princesses on Ice or My Little Pony but they still had a good time. Here are a few shots of our time there.

What Disney on Ice would be complete without Mickey and Minnie? The kids were so suprised!! Donald and Goofy were there too.

Mrs. Potato Head

Jessie and Bullseye

Buzz and Woody.. Buzz wasn't the greatest. He fell during his first solo.

The little Aliens and The Claw

Slink and Ham

Whether the movies or Disney on Ice, we have to have popcorn..

Lotso Huggin Bear

Barbie and Ken.. suprisingly, Barbie's big part was my favorite.

Austin's Christmas Play

Time to Decorate the Tree...Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas~

The long title comes from a cute little play Austin just had with the Kindergarten at PTA the other night. Everything went well but I was sure Austin was going to go to sleep up on stage. He is usually in bed by 8 and it didn't start til 7. He sang well on the first song and then started yawning and missing every other word.. it was all still cute. I took a video but it is too long to post here.

Everyone here is just wrapping up work/school to get ready for Christmas. I am off tomorrow to finish shopping and wrapping with Dan and then I have one more week plus a day until I get off til Jan 3rd. I am so looking forward to the time off. I am taking the big kids to Disney on Ice Toy Story on Sunday afternoon. They don't know about it yet.. it is part of their Christmas and I didn't want them to be asking every day. We might go to the Clayton Christmas parade Saturday afternoon but only if it isn't too cold. I have a make-up photo shoot around 11 or 12 and then the parade would be at 3pm.

I bought a Rocket ornament- from Little Einsteins because Dylan loves them.  The ornament was taken off the tree and "flown" around the house. I have no idea where it is now but he loved it!

Our Tree minus the Star on top. Not sure how we forgot that but there was a little bit of craziness with 3 of them decorating this year. The star is on now but I am too lazy to get my camera out.

Snow Day!

We just had the first snow of this winter. It wasn't a significant event but the flakes were huge. The kids loved going outside for a few minutes. Dylan's kept running around saying "snow, snow, wow". The last time it snowed, he was in his playpen looking out the window at the big kids.