Christmas 2009

Just when I think I am getting the hang of making sure my pictures are in order, I forget how to do it again so some of these are out of order.

Our Christmas was good - we had our first Christmas with Craig's extended family at his brother's house a few weeks before Christmas. Then we had Christmas with his immediate family a week later at our house. Then we had Christmas with my family the Sunday after Christmas at our house. It was busy as always but not too busy and we enjoyed having less busyness on Christmas day.

We put up the Christmas tree and the kids enjoyed helping. They were admiring all the ornaments and they did very well following instructions when told to stay out of the tree.

This was the family Christmas at our house with Craig's family. All the little cousins were sitting on the bottom step of our stairs but by the time we all grabbed our cameras, the moment was over and we couldn't get them to all sit back down together. I got four of the five sitting, which isn't bad but only one is looking.

Daddy helping the kids open the presents Christmas morning.

Some of you wanted to see pictures of the house after we moved and I never got around to it. Craig took a pic of it Christmas morning after all the snow fall we had.

The girls wouldn't wear hats or hoods and we didn't have any gloves for them so we didn't stay outside but a few minutes. Just enough for them to see and experience the snow. They weren't big fans of it.

Christmas evening Craig's parents stopped by to see us for a little while. They made the rounds Christmas day visiting their grandkids. Papaw reading to Whitney.

The Sunday after Christmas when we had Christmas with my family, we first all met up at our church then came home for lunch and gift exchanges. Here's Whitney taking control of her cousin's purse.

Hannah in Daddy's lap - her favorite seat in the house.

Tyler loves his pockets.