Christmastime!

My sweet Chloe, got me up before the rest of the family....I didn't mind.



"oooooh, what's all this?"








a white Christmas...how cool is that?! Brian and the Bit had to check it out.


the face says it all. One of her favorite presents. She lost this doll this summer and Santa 'found' it and gave it back to her. :) Great mommy and daddy moment too I might add.

I got Brian his motivational Disney calendar. A collection of our Disney pics for his office


notice the barricade behind Chloe. Evidently we were boring her with gift time and she kept trying to escape. :)







ahh, the magic that was the dancing pink hippo. The kids loved it. Nice job MiMi




that's good stuff right there



sweet grammie loving the portrait of all of us we had done.

well after all , it was the year of the pillow pets all over the country.....am I wrong???

A special time. Brian got skype up and going and got Grampa Mike online to join us. Meet your Grampa Mike Chloe!

the kids loved the online chat time w/ Maine

Another wonderful Christmas season this year. God has been so good to our little family again. We celebrated His birth with lots of food, smooches and princess wrapping paper for 2010. Chloe got me up nice and early for her bottle. I didn't mind at all embracing Christmas morning early and alone w/ my sweet Chloe. She waddled in sleepy puffy eyed looking at all the pretty packages. Not having a clue what it all meant. Brian woke up long enough to see that Abigail wasn't awake yet and headed straight into her room to make sure she wasn't missing any of the fun. All 3 of us piled into her room to get our Little Bit up. Her eyes hadn't even opened and her skinny little feet didn't hit the floor before she asked us if Santa had come and could she please open her presents now. :) We enjoyed each other all day. Mom and Dad came over and piled out of the truck w/ big black trash bags full of gifts. They had to keep them dry in the snowy ride up from the lake. We fed dad some soup and fudge and spent some time together. After they left we no longer had time to clean the floor and dishes before our other family arrived armed w/ more gifts and lots of hot steamy dishes of Christmas dinner. I tell you, what a blessing to have dinner arrive hot and ready on your doorstep. Christine and Dee and Greg were so good to bring it all over ready. We ate like true kings and enjoyed each other and some very hyper kids through the evening. What a wonderful day together. How fortunate we are to have such wonderful family and to live close and not have to go anywhere. The girls passed out by 8 and Brian and I weren't far behind. We took our sleepy full happy bodies to bed still smiling with all the memories made. One last peek at the sleeping princesses under their new matching pillow pets. Tell you what,.....that's good stuff!!!!!