Some fun pictures

Weeeeee!!!

Preston doing his best hand stand.

Cute girls.

Time for bed.

Oopps! I forgot to mention...

As my wonderful sister-in-law pointed out. I forgot to mention that we were able to spend one night with my brother Beau and his wife Lenette and their three adorable girls. They live about 2 hours from Todd's family in NC. We got there at lunch time and the kids quickly started playing with their cousins. That night after a yummy lasagna dinner that Lenette made. We (the adults) played some games. Oh my gosh, did we laugh. If you have never played Cranium, I suggest you do. I laughed so hard that I had tears coming down my face. Cranium is on the list of things I would like to get. The next morning Beau and Lenette took us to this cute restaurant/ bakery. We had the best breakfast of French Toast I have ever had. After breakfast we took a little stroll through downtown New Bern. It is a cute little town with lots of history. I would have loved to see more of the historic sites. One place we did go in was the store that was the birthplace of Pepsi-Cola. After our stroll we went back to their place and played some more games. We had so much fun on our visit with them. I wish we could have stayed longer.

Season Happenings

The kids checking out the fish at the Childrens Museum
Having fun with GanGan and PawPaw

Playing Wii on Christmas morning

Ashlyn and Katelyn singing the Good bye song with Ashlyn's teacher.

Baking cookies with my friends

We had a wonderful Christmas season. I will start with the school parties.

The Tuesday before Christmas Ashlyn had a party at school. She gets so excited when Katelyn and I some a visit her. The kids all had their snacks and then a special visitor came. It was Santa with gifts for all the kids. Santa called their names and they went up and got their gift. Ashlyn was the only one who didn't want to go up and get it and she cried. Katelyn cried when she first saw Santa, but that quickly changed when she saw that Santa was giving out stuffed animals.

Later that day Preston had his party. I was able to bring Ashlyn and Katelyn. Ashlyn was eager to play the games and sit in on circle time with Preston. They also made a Hot Cocoa project. The girls were so cute participating and loved seeing Preston in school.

Our Christmas Eve tradition is to spend it with my Dad and Ginger. Ginger makes a wonderful fish dinner complete with shrimp cocktail, stuffed clams, linguine with clam sauce, fried shrimp and fish, and lobsters at midnight. As always, it was a fun night.

Christmas Day the kids opened all the gifts from Santa. The boys got a Wii compliments of Mom, Dad and Grandparents. They were thrilled and played all day. Later that day my Mom and Bob came over for dinner. We had stuffed pork loin, mashed potatoes, asparagus, broccoli, and pear pie for desert.

A few weeks prior to Christmas, Todd decided he wanted to go see his Dad in North Carolina. So Christmas night at around 6:30pm. we took off for NC. We arrived at about 3:30am. The kids slept most of the way and Todd and I were tired. We had a great week with them and as always they spoiled us and the kids. We came home early Sunday morning after driving through the night.

So that was our Christmas season. Hope you all had a wonderful season as well. And may you have many blessings in 2010.