Christmas Morning 2009

Christmas morning!!! Nanny and Papa were with us as well as Grandma Judie and Grandpa T John. We had lots of family fun!!!



Grandma Judie and Grandpa T John taking it all in!!!




John and his loot!!!



Jim and John opening their joint gift. It is a world atlas puzzle ball. Too cool!



Sarah and her loot!



Matthew and his loot! His stocking is almost bigger than he is.




Nanny watching the festivities.


Santa was good to everyone this year. John received a ripstik. So far is has been very challenging for him. Hoping for warmer weather soon. Sarah received a razor scooter. She loves it! Matthew recieved a 16" Lightning McQueen big boy bike. He needs to continue practicing. He will be riding it soon.

Christmas Eve 2009

Ok, so I am a little slow at actually posting photos this year. I started out so strong. I am going to continue to try to post more timely. With that being said, this photo is from Christmas Eve. The kids are all dressed up and ready to Christmas Eve church services.



After church we returned home to a nice dinner with family. Grandma Judie, Grandpa T John, Nanny, Papa, Uncle Josh and Aunt DeAnn joined us for the festivites. Dinner was served, cookies for santa were set out and reindeer food was sprinkled on the lawn. We were ready for Santa.

January Challenges

Each month at Gotta Pixel, there are several challenges in which to participate. I love these challenges. They are fun and at times very challenging. Each one comes with a set of rules that are to be followed. These are the challenges that I have participated in so far this month.

The first challenge is called an element challenge. In this challenge, I had to create one digital scrapbook page and use beads in the layout. Here is my completed page:


The next challenge was by the numbers challenge. In this challenge we were to use 1 photo, 1 paper and 10 different elements. Here is my completed page:


For the next challenge, we were given a template. This is the simply sketchy by Laura challenge. From this template we were to create a unique page. I used a photo from this Christmas Eve for this challenge. Here's mine:

Christmas Day

What a fun day!!! We all had so much fun opening up our presents this year.Look at the Loot!! You must have all been VERY good this year.John is ready to begin....Matthew is enjoying opening up his stocking. So much stuff.Sarah got her webkinz. She loves her new goldfish.Daddy got a new pair of shoes.

Christmas was a success!!! My parents and I were also there for Christmas morning. Somehow, there are no pictures of us. Later that day, Uncle John and Aunt DeAnn joined us for our traditional Christmas Day dinner or Prime Rib and Yorkshire Pudding. YUMMY!!!!!

Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve, we attended church services. This year, John was Joseph at the Christmas Eve service. The kids did a great job and appeared to have lots of fun.Sarah and Matthew were not in the pageant. Here they are sitting in their daddy's lap before church began.

After church services, we returned home and ate a nice Christmas Eve dinner. The kids got dressed in their jammies. Remember, Santa won't come unless everyone is asleep.
After cookies were set out for Santa and reindeer food was sprinkled on the lawn, the kids were tucked into their beds.