Christmas 2008

Okay - so it is a little late, but here is the basic play-by-play from our holidays!!

Here are some of the pictures that we took for our Christmas Card. I took literally 45 pictures to get enough good ones to make a card, but it was SO much fun!!!Christmas Eve was a great time at home. Our great friend, Tom came over to spend the day and brought the kids gifts (Hannah got a Barbie bicycle and Seth a Disney ride-on airplane). It was great to spend time with him and the kids just LOVE him! Chris was busy smoking ribs and pork shoulder for the holidays. Tom was pretty excited about the ribs and sausage balls that I made.

Hannah and Tom on the computer!

While Daddy and Uncle Tom were busy, Hannah and mommy decorated Christmas cookies and had a BLAST!!!
Hannah was choosing cookies for Santa in the picture above and below Hannah was feeding the reindeer their treat!!

Christmas morning Hannah was awake early, so we let her open her presents and see what Santa had brought. She must have been a good girl because she got lots of princess and Barbie stuff!!Seth finally woke up and it was fun to see him with his new toys!! Opening was not a big hit, but he loved the wooden hammer he got and all the wooden blocks.

After breakfast on Christmas morning, we packed up and headed to Lindale to celebrate Christmas with Ninny and Paco and the rest of the gang!!

Here are 7 of the 8 grandchildren (RoryCate was taking a nap):

Lt to Rt

Tiffany, my brother's daughter who will be 18 in June

Seth , sitting in Tiff's lap

Matthew, my brother's son who is 8

Candace, my brother's oldest who is 19

John, my sister's son who just turned 2

Hannah Kay

Sydney, my brother's daughter who is about to turn 11

Hannah and John before bed that night getting Paco to put everything together for them!

Hannah and John loved the lollipops that Ninny had in the stockings!

RoryCate with her mommy!!


After everyone else had left, Paco took us to SantaLand to look at the lights!!!


Hannah thought this was GREAT - you mean we get to drive UNDER the lights!!!

While in Hideaway, Hannah got her first driving lesson an needless to say this was one heck of a ride - I think the car touched every part of the road from side to side!!!

After a few days in Lindale with Ninny and Paco, we headed home to have Christmas with Daddy's side of the family!

Here are the 4 grandkids on that side:

Cameron - who is 10

Seth

Austin - who is about to be 9

Hannah

Above and below are the pictures of the wonderful gifts that Uncle Danny and Aunt Nina gave the kiddos! Nina sent Danny to the store with ages and ideas, but he did an AWESOME job!! Thank you for thinking of the kiddos!!

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Uncle Danny and Aunt Nina

We loved seeing them and spending time with them!! Hannah keeps asking when we get to go swimming at their house again!!

That sums up the holidays for us!! It was a great whirlwind, but so worth getting to see everyone and spend time with all of you!!