Christmas 2009

It was a beautiful white Christmas for 2009. What a year to remember. The kids slept in until a little before 8 this year. I think it was the exhausting drive home on top of two tons of excitement the night before that helped them sleep in. That is what I love at Christmas Eve at the farm it has pretty much always prevented my kids from waking up at the crack of dawn Christmas morning. Sorry for you folks that were up at 5. We were all warm and cozy in our beds with sugar plums dancing above our heads.

For some reason Santa was very good to the kids again this year. I hear it was quiet a project to get everything ready Christmas Even night but Santa always manages to pull it off!

An electric scooter for Lucas with an Under Armor pull over that was super cool looking. Addie Jo got a Disney Princess vaniety that is also musical with a keyboard, whistle, harmonica and tamborine. She also recieve a Cinderella dress that she loved very much.

Addie danced and sang and danced all around in her favorite princess outfit. She even wore it for part of the present opening later on.

Oh Grandma Ann just loves to have her picture taken. Grandma Ann was here Christmas morning because we stopped on the way home in the blizzard to pick her up. If not, who knows when Grandma Ann would have gotten out!!

Addie almost was buried in her presents.

Merry Christmas GG.



After we open presents we had a lite breakfast because we were going to have a standing rib roast, twice baked potatoes and all sort of other goodies for lunch. Daddy always makes breakfast for us Christmas morning and this year was no exception. What a way to start off the day!!

After all the presents are open there is no rush to get dressed or to rush off anywhere. Home is where we are at all day. It is awesome for the kids because they get to play with all their presents and play they did. And played. And played. And played.

This is the new Duck Hunter remote control thingy. Yes, I do think that is the official name. This robotic duck fly's around and you try to shoot it. Hey, the box says it is endorsed by the indoor hunting association, so what could be wrong with it? Oh yeah, it only fly's half the time and you kid has ruled it junk in less then an hour. Merry Christmas. By the way, what exactly is the indoor hunting association?? That just sounds wrong if you are hunting anything besides mice and spiders!

One of Addie's favorite gifts was this doll GG gave her. It had blond hair just like her and is about as tall as she is. She has called it her best friend. So much her best friend she had to have her picture taken with it.

And so did Lucas

And so did I

Then we did stockings.............which had candy.........which was gone from Addie's stocking in under a minute flat.

Lucas loves his marshmallow gun. That was a Grandma Ann special. For some reason Grandma Ann remembered to buy two extra packages of marshmallows for the gun. If I were Grandma Ann I would not worry about being toilet papered but ones yard being marshmellowed!!!

For around an hour Addie lined up her clothes, which she loves all clothes to various dolls she received for Christmas. The dolls never got to wear the clothes, they were told it was because they were Addie Jo's new clothes. Poor dolls, they did not get to wear her clothes or the clothes they came with.

Later on in the afternoon we caught the kids playing so nicely together. They were practicing singing.

We had an amazing Christmas. Our day really over flowed with joy. It is not too often we just to sit back and enjoy a day with such happy kids for such an amazing reason. We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and took time to reflect on the meaning of the season and the blessings you have in your day. It really is amazing when you sit back and take it all in.