Friday, December 26, 2008

A Very Merry Christmas!

I haven't been able to post in a while, so this is going to a LONG post of our Christmas season! :) We had a wonderful Christmas with family and friends! I hope you all had a blessed Holiday Season as well! I will add Christmas Day pics on the next go round!



Family Christmas at my Aunt's House!

Marleigh falling on Clarke!

Caroline and Marleigh!


Davis opening his gift with Daddy!

Marleigh and her first horse!



Our Visit with Santa!


We ventured to see St. Nick on a weekday night thinking it would, "Save us time!" Well I am not really sure if it did, but we had a fun family outing! Needless to say we got in line around 6:45 pm, and we finally got to see Santa at 8:15 pm! Let me add that Marleigh religiously goes to bed at 8:00 pm, so you can catch my drift! Mommy and Daddy took turns "walking" with Marleigh and window shopping. D was VERY well behaved considering the LONG wait! We were very proud of him. Marleigh was fine until Mommy sat her in a strange man's lap. I don't think she even ever looked at him! LOL! She did freeze between melting down, and the photographer actually got a decent shot! Here is some of our shots from our night out!
Marleigh became a BIG fan of Starbucks! Probably not the most suitable drink for a 10 month old! But she LOVED it! :)



Christmas at Nana and Papa's House!

We celebrated Christmas at Tim's parents' house the Saturday before Christmas. Nana made a delicious lunch and the kids loved tearing into presents! We missed celebrating with Uncle Troy this year, but we know he was in heaven celebrating with us. Nana decorated a tree for Troy with some of his GA ornaments and things. Davis loved staring at it and would re-arrange the ornaments when he could get away with it!


Mommy and Marleigh getting ready to leave!

Marleigh with Papa and Nana!Mommy helping Marleigh with a gift!
Davis helping Papa open a gift!

Christmas at Tim's Cousin's House!
Marleigh and Papa!





Daddy and Marleigh!



It was like herding cat trying to get a picture! This was the best I could do with 4 out of 5 complying! The divanista was way too busy for a picture!

Christmas at Mimi and Pops' House!

We did Christmas at my parents' house on Christmas Eve! Mom cooked a yummy dinner! Ms. Marleigh wasn't feel well at all, but she was a little trooper! We opened gifts first, and Tim put things together and hooked up my Mom's Dance Revolution set and their Wii while my dad went to our church to serve the Lord's Supper with the other deacons. When he got home we had dinner and played. Dad thought we should celebrate Jesus' birthday with Davis, so he got a cake! Davis was able to blow out the candles and we all sang Happy Birthday to Jesus! It was a great night!

Our little walker trying to escape to the gifts!

Opening gifts with Daddy!Mimi assisting Davis with gifts!

Davis opening "James" the train!Davis helping Pops open his new roaster!Davis with Jesus' birthday cake!

*Check back soon -- I hope to post Christmas morning photos by tomorrow night!*

7 comments:

jms said...

I'm so glad you blogged! The time says 7am so I guess I did not refresh my saved link when I looked earlier (and sassily sent you an email telling you to blog). = ) I'm so dissappointed that you did not come to have Christmas as my house . . . it's apparently the only place y'all did not go!! You've been crazy buzy, huh? So many good pictures and such blessings! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

The Partins said...

Love the pics! Glad they had such a great time.... so Starbucks?!?! That should have kept her up a good extra hour or so. haha.

Amanda said...

Can you believe my little one loves starbucks as much as mommy and daddy! I think it was a Frozen Chocolate Mocha -- she pitched a fit when we drank it all! :)

Andrea said...
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Andrea said...

^me sorry!

I was so eyeing that pony as a gift for Marleigh's first birthday! I'm glad you posted about it so I know not to buy it!

Where are you going to put all of these presents?!?!?

Amanda said...

LOL! Andrea -- seriously! I am on toy overload! Hopefully Marleigh will get clothes and shoes! LOL!

Anonymous said...

The kids are so cute! It looks like you guys had a great Christmas too. Morgan has that same Christmas outfit from Target as Marleigh!