Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Holiday Rewind

A lot happened before Christmas, but we were so busy the blog was abandoned a bit.. so here we will catch up..

Christmas #1 - Chirco Christmas! Where we go to Grammy and Grampy's and have Christmas with the Chirco cousins.  It's not often we are able to get all of them in front of the camera with almost everyone looking!  Normally it is nap time for someone, or one won't sit still.. this was a close one!  Casey was on the move! 

 Another one?! This must be our lucky day!

Santa came!

Two were totally psyched!  and didn't leave Santa's side.



Two others were absolutely certain that they were fine as far away from Santa as humanly possible!


And one was in different..

Eventually Caden decided to be in a picture with Santa.. really you could see his little mind working very hard!  and he was quite curious about the whole situation.

Next day was Christmas #2a and #2b.  Morning with Grampy, Uncle Brian and Becky..

The love this girl has for her "babies" human and animal is astounding!

Then the Waterhouse Family Christmas in the afternoon.. Elizabeth loved her hat from us!

The boys got new trucks, every truck they get it is as if they had never had one before!  The excitement they have for trucks (especially those that make noise) is astounding!


Rob and I spent one evening assembling these lovely men for Cole's preschool holiday party, thankfully there are only 6 kids in his class!.. really the whole ordeal was a frustrating one, and to top it all off, when I put them in the clear bags their noses got knocked off... Grrr!  So I had to blow all the bags up, then lay them down on their backs so the bag hopefully wouldn't knock it off.

Last but not least!  We had totally given up on the gingerbread house this year.. but Cousin Amy and her family are Awesome! and gave everyone one for Christmas!  She saved Christmas!  and the kids got their Gingerbread house.. and a huge sugar rush. 




Someone mentioned silly faces.. and this is the first time Cora has actually participated! Of course everyone else had finished.. but it is cute just the same!

Our masterpiece!  I am in charge of the icing, the kids are in charge of sticking all the candy on.. not a bad job!


And then there was left over candy.. caught stealing before it could go in the trash! 


One last Christmas Party left...  so stay tuned for a bit more Christmas!


1 comment:

Kelly said...

Um, did you save me one of those snowmen?! Those things look awesome! Nice job!

Such a great pic of all of the cousins! I am so thankful that we are around family- I know your kids and mine will have such lasting memories of these kinds of get togethers!