December {Told in January by a lazy blogger}

I'll start with why we didn't have a Christmas card this year:

"All is Merry and Chaos!"

After Thanksgiving we carefully decked the halls...

I tried again to get a Christmas card picture...

Considered sending one out with just Bean on it... ;-)

Found a fairy in the kitchen...

M turned 30...

We saw Rudolph at the park

We made Christmas cookies...

Tis the season for eating.

Christmas Eve we tried again to get a picture.

I guess that's pretty good. :)

Christmas morning...

Christmas Day at Momo and Popo's house with Uncle Chris and Aunt Minsey...

And finally, crashed at home to finish out the year.

In the midst of it all we potty trained, painted, potty trained, painted and painted. And potty trained.

Did you notice the shift from dark wood to white? From diaper to undies? {It's not like we were going to start putting pants on J now...}

January has again been full of painting and rearranging. We are this close to only having the living room and master bedroom to paint. Pictures soon! Right now the kitchen cabinets and doors are drying!

Hip Hip Hooray for Christmas Vacation: Part 3 M's Family

First of all, thank you for such a warm welcome to blogger! I'm looking forward to sitting down and playing with it- but, this is not the week! I started back to work (just 2 mornings, so I really can't complain) and we are getting ready to go out of town again. But, I already like it here... image upload is a breeze, so maybe you'll see a few more posts around these parts. We certainly have enough to blog about.

But, back to the subject at hand-  the final leg of Christmas!

Tuesday morning we loaded up once again to spend the day celebrating with M's family.  My mother-in-law had made a yummy brunch and BBQ baked potatoes for dinner.  We ate, opened presents, ate... you know the story.

Thanks once again to the self timer.

J was getting quite comfortable with the whole present thing.

"and this one, is for Jack..."

Helping out Momo

ELMO EXTREME!

MONSTERS! Ok, I might have been just as excited about these. Monsters, Inc. stuff is impossible to find right now. But, Uncle Chris pulled through!  He found a "Mike" AND Pixar bath toys with "Sully". Big hit.

DID YOU SEE THIS!?

J is also very into Nemo and Buzz.
 

Bean took a nice snooze and let J and I open up her gifts.

and snoozed...

and, fighting a snooze.

 

M and I

Just when you think it couldn't get any better... there was still snow on the ground!
Notice his adorable sweater from Uncle Chris and Aunt Minzey. Also, notice how OLD he looks!

Bean came out to see what all the fuss was about.

Then she had to do an outfit change and come back out. TO SHOW OFF HER JEGGINGS! Thanks, Aunt Minzey.  If I can't be in style, my 3 month old will be...

And, finally, one of all the kids.

What a fabulous way to wrap up the Christmas season! Thank you for everything, Momo and Popo!