A little running around time

Two days after Christmas we were all ready to pop with the crazzies! The house was a disaster from all the gifts we were still trying to find a home for, all the new fun toys to play with and not get put up anywhere, the cold weather...just everything! Greg was at work, so I took the girls to Mickey D's for a little help with getting the crazzies out. Trinity and Emory had a wonderful time playing, running, screaming, climbing, sliding and making new friends while Addison sat with me and watched.

Just before we left I got Addison out of her high chair to wipe it down and when I was finished I couldn't find her. I finally looked under another table to find her going on a merry-go-round all by herself.

Now if this had been Sheridan she would have come out chewing gum:)

Christmas with Mimi

After a huge lunch and a ton of fun with Nana and Pops we headed over to Greg's Mom's house for another round of celebrating! The girls napped the whole way over there, but were wound up and ready to go again as soon as we arrived! We enjoyed wonderful gifts from the family, and delicious dinner and great company! The girls were extremely needy by this point in the day so I worked in even fewer pictures, but here are the few:

Addison looking for a little quiet time and personal space under Mimi's table

Addison and Clark discussing who will get to open the first gift

After a long, full day we headed home for some much needed R&R! The girls had a wonderful day and thoroughly enjoyed every second of it! They were all three wonderfully behaved and very grateful for every little thing! Addison's first Christmas was perfect!

Christmas with Nana and Pops

After a full morning of celebrating at home we headed over to Greg's Dad's house for a family Christmas with all of his family. We had a great time with everyone! Unfortunately I didn't get the camera out very much because there was so much going on (with a 5, 4, 2, 1 1/2 year olds and 11 month old it was pretty crazy!), but I did manage to snap a few pictures that turned out.

Addison and her Pops, helping him with his "stocking"

Clark and Sheridan opening their family stocking

At Nana and Pops' house their "stocking" were getting so full they switched over to shopping bags, they HUGE shopping bags! Each family gets one and they're always jam-packed with all kinds of goodies!

This is a quick snapshot of opening gifts. This looks like it was after most everything had been opened and a huge percentage of the stuff pulled out, but this gives you an idea of what it's like over there!

As always, Nana and Pops were way too generous with their gifts, we all received way more than we deserved! Thanks for such wonderful memories with a wonderful family! I am so grateful to have married into this!

It's Christmas!

What a wonderful day Christmas is! We are so grateful to have the most incredible reason to celebrate and to spoil our children and spend quality time with our family!

When the girls woke up Christmas morning they couldn't wait to see if Santa stopped at our house! Indeed Santa did stop and he left some pretty great toys! We started out by exploring all these wonderful gifts, then moved on to the gifts from each other. Here's Addison's experience in pictures:

Santa gave Addison a Tickle Me Elmo TMX (this is something the entire family has really enjoyed playing with!) a LeapFrog table, Princess blocks, Little People, Jack-in-the-box and quite a few other things too! She was a bit overwhelmed with the entire morning and all of the new stuff around her, so she didn't really get into opening gifts, but here are a few of the gifts she did open:

A baby from Trinity

(she has really enjoyed loving on this little thing, her face lights up when she sees it!)

A placemat play place

She also got a couple of outfits, books and toys.

Next is Emory! Here's her loot from the big man in red:

Santa knew just what Emory wanted! He brought her a baby that poops and pees in the potty (we're having about as much luck getting her to go in the potty as I am having with Emory), dress up clothes, Princess oven, purse, arts and crafts, and a lot more! The whole time Emory was opening gifts she was so grateful! She kept saying, "Thank you so much, this is just what I wanted!", "Oh, I love this! Thank you so much!", "Santa, you are wonderful!" and a number of other very sweet things! Here are some of the gifts she got from the family:

My Little Pony

Angelina Ballerina costume and video

Pink sparkly shoes

Her very own James Avery butterfly and cross necklace from Trinity

Last, but not least is Trinity. Here's her goodies from Santa:

She got a Grows and Knows Your Name Puppy, which she named Chloe after her Chapel Buddie at school, she got TONS of beading stuff, arts and crafts and several other things too. The trampoline is for all three girls to share. Trinity really got into the spirit of Christmas this year and for her it was mostly about giving and enjoying the delight of other people when they received something new. She was really excited about passing out all the gifts to everyone, then each of us taking turns opening one gift at a time so we could all see what it was and how special it was to the recipient. She was a big help with everyone's package opening! She didn't really want me to take any pictures of her, so I only got a couple:

American Girl Doll clothes from Emory.

She was so excited about it, Emory ran up and gave her a hug!

A crystal "PRINCESS" wall hanging

We are so blessed to be able to provide such wonderful gifts for our girls!

Speaking of blessed...I am blessed with the MOST AMAZING husband in the entire world! He was supposed to give me a new cell phone for Christmas (since my Razor spent the night in a puddle in the bath tub) and that was it, but he so didn't listen! He went shopping all by himself and check out what he got me:

Yep, you see right, that's a Diamond Necklace AND a Dooney and Burke purse!!!!!! Hello, is he good or what?!?!?! I was totally surprised by each of these, together they nearly knocked me out! I LOVE MY HUBBY! Oh, and yes, I did still get my new cell phone that I love!