HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

From our family to yours.... HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

We hope that the new year brings only good things for you and your family. We are bringing in the new year at home. We are watching movies, snacking and having pizza for dinner. At midnight, we have sparkling grape juice (which the kids are super excited about!!)

To all of our family in GA... wish that we could be there with yall to bring in the year. We love yall and really enjoyed being able to visit with you all over Christmas! Cant wait to be back to see everyone again in March!!!

Once again... HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Bring on 2009!!!

Kailyn's bookshelf.....

I found this bookshelf that I wanted Kaliyn to have in the Pottery Barn catalog. It was selling for around $300. I then remembered that my father in law is great with making things like this and asked if he would like to make it for Kailyn for Christmas.... He did an awesome job!! It has the window and door on each side... and the roof is green (just like in the top pic) The pic on top is out of the catalog... below you will find Kailyn very proudly taking a pic with Papa and her new bookshelf..... Thank you so much Papa!! we love it!!

Our Families....

We are so blessed and thankful to have the family that we do. We are all so close. The pictures are missing some people.... it is so hard to get everyone together during the holidays because there are so many different places that we have to be. There are a lot more people than this in our family, but this is who we were able to spend our Christmas with while we were in GA. It was a awesome trip!! We love you all so much! And cant wait until we are back there again for another visit....

SaNtA came to see us!!!

Santa came!! We LOVE all of our new stuff!!

Baking at Mrs Sony's House

Here we are baking some cookies and dipping pretzels in chocolate. We have so much fun helping in the kitchen. (I am sure that mom and Mrs Sony had fun cleaning up after us too.... heehee)

2008 HMLA 467 Christmas Party

Here are some pictures from the Christmas Party at daddy's work. (HMLA 467) We had SO much fun! Santa flew in on a Huey, we had a YuMmY lunch, and best of all.... PRESENTS!! Oh, and we got to meet Buttercup and Gumdrop (Santa's Elves) Soooo cool! They were flying in the Huey with him.

Enjoy the pictures!!

Making Cookies

We decided to get into the Christmas spirit and make some Christmas cookies. We had a BIG mess to clean up when we were finished, but it was SO much fun!!!

Kailyn getting a little help from mommy. She was having a hard time getting the cutter all the way through the dough.

Time for icing!!! Not really Christmas colors, but hey... they were YUMMY!!!

Pics from the trip to Beaufort

Just thought that I would share a couple of pics that I got while we were waiting for the parade to begin.

I love this one!! they are too sweet (well... most days. haha!)

Family shot... My everything!!

Another visit with Santa....

Tonight down on the waterfront in Beaufort, they were having the Flotilla parade (Christmas parade on the water) The kids were able to see Santa and Mrs Claus while we were there. Kain was a little confused as to why this Santa looked different than they one at the mall. Guess we are going to have to start answering more questions like this. Kailyn was acting like she was shy and just HAD to introduce Santa and Mrs Claus to her newest addiction, her stuffed teddy bear "Beary" If you read in one of the previous post she just had to get Beary in the pic with her the day that I was taking pics of the Christmas tree. maybe this is like her imaginary friend? Anyhow, we had a really good time while we were there... More pics to come.

We are Elves!!

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Kailyn

I was taking pictures of the tree to share with everyone and Kailyn asked if I could take her picture too. Notice, we are still in pajamas today... LaZy!

She wanted to hold the Tigger ornament in her hand and she just had to make sure that her bear, "Beary", got in the picture as well. "bounce, bounce, bounce" she said "Tigger likes to bounce, bounce, bounce"

Our tree.... (well... one of them!)

Our Christmas tree!

This is one of the 3 trees that we have up (2 are in the kids rooms) . We normally have 4, but this year I decided not to have the Marine Corps tree and just combine all the ornaments. I am so glad that Christmas is only a few weeks away.