FL Christmas 2010

Everyone at dinner. And a yummy dinner it was.

Grandma being a good sport.

Dad got mom a really pretty ring. She was very surprised.

I really wanted this present that Unca got! It's a flag for your mail box. But it's an FSU spear. How cool is that. I actually had it in my stuff and someone told and he took it back.

Unca and S got us all picture books. They were sneaky about it. They emailed Sissy and I asked for pictures. Little did we know we were getting one too. Funny side note: when they were handing them out Unca said "open your books now" Duh. We haven't opened them yet.

He was so proud of that bag cuz it lit up and played music and annoyed the rest of us.

C had been wanting this book for a very long time. It is kinda a cool book.

Go Noles! My kids got "uniforms" 2 years ago. Now it's EJ's turn.

Sissy got K some makeup. So we all got makeovers later. We were very shiny.

Sissy got C some Lego candy. He still has some left!

Unca got K a princess pool. Will be a little while til she uses it (as I type it is 8 degrees out. It was -2 this morning)

Grandma and Papa got each of the grandkids a recordable book. It's a poes about Christmas and they each got to read/record the pages. So the kids will always have a rememberance of their grandparents. What a neat keep sake!

Isn't that the awesomest snuggie?

This was a tree across from my brother's house. Cool looking huh?

Christmas 2010

Do they look like brothers or what?

She got packing tape. I"m sure there is a story behind that somewhere.

She got her purple hippo pillow pet! She has been wanting that thing for almost forever!

Good but sad book.

To wear while he rides his horses.

He got these things called magforms. They are from QVC and they are pretty awesome. K wants the purple set.

Crazy girl.

Christmas 2010 was spent in many different places this year. We "did Christmas" in New York when we were together with Daddy's family. The 4 of us "did Christmas" a few days before we left for Pensacola where we "did Chritmas" actually on Christmas day with my family. This year's Chritmas was a little lean due to circumstances but we all still made out pretty good.

I've just now realized that I never put pix up of NY Christmas so we will start with those. Then tomorrow's post will be FL pix. I'm so behind (and so confused!) And sorry if the pictures are first and the blogging is second. I'm sick and don't feel like re-arranging everything. You'll be OK :)

And it came to pass in those days...........

I have no idea how to rotate video! So sorry! You might have to turn your head.

Anyways. I haven't had much time to blog and I am so far behind! I thought I'd give you one quick blog. This is from Christmas day which will get it's own post later. But I thought this deserved one all its own. And it won't take me long--so then I can say "I blogged!"

Grandma and Papa asked C to read the Christmas story this year. I was a little worried that he would stumble on some of the hard words. (I meant to have him practice but in all the business-kept forgetting.) (He did practice one time with Unca right before) I was so proud of how good he did! That's my boy!

So enjoy the best reading of the Christmas story ever (until next year anyways).

Our Christmas

We had our Christmas with just the 4 of us on Monday morning. It seemed like a smaller Chrismtas this year. But last year we didn't go anywhere and all presents (from all family memebers) came here. So it seemed like we had much more to open last year. This year I think we will end up having 4 different "Christmases"

I took a picture of C with his "stuff" and one of K with her "stuff" Alas. It is on my other camera and I am not going to get it tonight. You will have to turst me: they made out well.

C got 2 games for his DS and K got a new one for her "Kindle" They aren't allowed to play them until our trip later this week. So they did other stuff. C worked on Legos and K painted.

Daddy was allowed to play his new game. And we all got a chance to play it. He got Band Hero. What a fun game! Check future posts for pictures and videos.

Kids Christmas program

The kiddies sang in church Sunday night for their Christmas program. This was K's 1st time singing in church and she was so excited. She had been waiting for this since she started in the choir class. It was kinda funny watching her cuz she didn't know all the words. And when she looked at you, she tried not to smile and lost her place in the song. But they both did very well. We have a few other videos but I'll just post one. (It takes forever to post video on here!)

Why isn't this illegal?

Another name for this post: 106% of your daily allowance.

My sister and her husband sent us a Cheesecake Factory cheesecake for Christmas this year. A Godiva chocolate cheesecake. What a neat idea! Something different. And it is YUMMY!

Before we ate it, we made the mistake of looking at the nutrition info on the side. Big mistake. Take a look at this!

When I saw how many grams of fat were in once slice, I told Daddy he had to take a picture of it. In my words, "that's blog-worthy." Seriously?!?!?! 69 grams of fat in once slice!!!!!! Why isn't that illegal? For as much as they focus on how fat Americans are, why do they (government?) allow companies to make foods like this!

Rest assured. If you notice, the entire cheesecake is 6 serving slices. We didn't even eat one slice between the 4 of us. I thought it was very good. Daddy and C aren't big chocolate people, so they thought it was so-so. K didn't like the texture, but that's typical for her.

Thank you sissy for the yummy cheesecake! Remind me to do a few extra crunches next week.

Merry Christmas!

Please begin reading this post at the bottom and scroll up. :)
When we were growing up, I remember taking a picture w/ eveyrthing that we got that year for Christmas so we could remember what we got. So here is C's picture for this year.

And here is K's picture.

C's "last to open " present--what he really wanted. Lego Indiana Jones for the Wii.

K's new dollhouse. And boy does she like it.

K's tutu. Isn't she cute?

Not sure what this was but I like how Daddy took the picture.

My mom got K a purple purse filled with goodies. I think it was one of her favorite presents. It had tissues, a purple comb, a nail file, a little toy doggie, and a key. She thought she was hot stuff!

This is C taking a picture of---something.

K got this for Daddy at the Cubbies store. It's a screwdriver on both ends. Very small and magnetic. Daddy used it at least twice already today!

C got me some nice new socks and very soft blue gloves. They are so soft!

We bought these for C at the Lego store in Disney. He also got a set from Grandma that are Indy Jones.

K wanted a Barbie doll. And this is Belle! What I like is that it is made more for her age. The shoes don't come off and neither do the clothes. The tutu does. No little parts for her to loose.

K was very love-y today. I'll take it when I can. She's usually not like that.

Daddy and I both got each other this game. Scrabble Slam. He and I actually played it tonight after the kids went to bed. It's really fun. He's really good at it.

Look at all those presents! Since we didn't go anywhere, all presents from everyone got sent to us. We had a lot. It took us quite awhile to open them all.

Here's Mugsy. He wanted to be in on all the fun, but he kept getting in the way. Poor guy. After we ate dinner tonight, he kept begging for turkey scraps. He got one little one. His Christmas present.

Merry Christmas to all! I hope everyone had a wonderful day. We are spending this Christmas here at home as our family of 4. Our only house guests are one dog (Mugsy) and 2 turtles (never heard of turtle sitting?)

PS: Blogger rearranged all my pictures and words. And it's too late for me to care.