All THREE of my kids are taking a nap, right now, at the same time.! This has NEVER happened and by golly it is a GIFT to me.
Deeep breath.. and thankyou.
I will post a bit of an update and if this silence is still in motion when finished, I will be taking my own little rest. Just because THAT never happens either.
Christmas and 2011 for that matter were absolutely amazing.! What a great year we've had. So many blessings with our "new" (8 months now) baby, Harper Lee. Our "new" (110 year old) house that we went to the depths of stress and back to finally call our own. My parents and family that has had many changes (parents divorce after 29 years) and sister Whit getting married. With all of this everyone is very happy and healthy.
And...I can already here stirring upstairs. Dang! Guess that miracle was short lived. Nonetheless, still a miracle. Beckham is up and the least harmless, or hands on. So, I'll continue on.
This year we invited whoever wanted to from my fam to come up and spend the night Christmas Eve. Dad, and Diana came for Eve dinner then Shell drove up later after work. Dave prepped his 1st turkey for dinner and boy did it turn out sooo juicy good. We all had good times delivering goodies, watching Muppets xmas, having the "elves" deliver presents for the kids and watching a buck deer bust our fence while jumping over. IT was crazy.
Beckham(5) and Roma(3) are at such fun ages for christmas! They went NUTS over every little gift. Giggling, running in place and Roma doing her little side glances, as if to say, "Are you kidding me?" We were all entertained watching them tear through the gifts.
Some of the favorites were: Beck-Nerf disc blaster, army dress up gun kit, transformers, and pocket knife.
Romes-4 princess barbies, make up, art kit and boots.
Both of them got a small violin to hopefully start taking lessons on. It's the cutest little thing ever!
WE all got Lagoon passes from in laws.
Dave got some blue Sperry boat shoes, chainsaw, new iphone.
I got great kitchen stuff, Toms, garden and cook books.
OH YES- and Harp Lee got a tooth for xmas and the 2nd one popped up a couple days after.
We were all spoiled as always.
I've LOVED getting the mail to find all the cute updates and xmas cards too! One of my favorite parts!
This year I did our cards in, oh, ONE day. I couldn't find a pic that I really loved so I had my friend come down the street with her nice camera, snap a cute one of us on our porch, I took it to Walgreens and had them printed and posted to send the next day. haha. Just how it worked out this year. I wish I had the actual card scanned in to post because the picture printed on the card was a little ol' house that looked SO identical to ours. Fence around it, tall trees and all. I thought they turned out cute!
We've mostly been full on holiday whirlwind. Xmas parties, decorating, treat making, my first xmas dinner/program for our relief society and now taking down and putting away xmas. What a fun time we've had doing it all in a new house and town.
Hope you are all happy and BRIGHHTTTT. :) Happy NEW YEARRRR. Now we all need to write down those resolutions. .. I seem to never really write mine down. There, that can be my first. 1-Write down some goals for 2012- besides living through the END OF THE WORLD.! ;)
Yo Gabba Gabba! concert.
Frosting cookies at Grams
From our home to yours, Dave, Bre, Beck, Roma,
and Harper Lee
Christmas Day-after church
Grandma Lynne's stockings
1st CHRISTMAS!
