Christmas Eve 2011

I'm exhausted, but as I was walking to get into bed I passed by my camera and realized that if I don't post Christmas pictures soon it might be February. :-)

We had an amazing Christmas. We are so blessed with such wonderful family that made Christmas absolutely magical for us and the kids!

I know the kids loved every minute they got to spend with each and every one of you!

Thank you all!!!

Warning! Christmas Picture OVERLOAD Ahead! 

Me and my sweet baby boy.

We tried that Pinterest idea....but it didn't work so well...

 This is take 15 and they had enough! hah!

Lane and Parker and their great grandparents....and they are GREAT too! :-)

My cutie-pa-tooti single brother. :-)

Aunt Cece (8 months pregnant) and her baby girl Parker Lou

SP's!

While we were caught up in all the picture taking...we heard some bells and a big HO HO HO-Santa left his bag in the garage!

Just a tad excited!

And then someone looked out the back door and realized Santa left one more present...

She wanted in on the action too!

She wasn't really a fan in the end...her brother must have a lead foot. :-)

Christmas Dinner

The kiddie table!

Kiddos in bed and now time for presents for us.

I got a tri pod and we had fun with it!

I put it on 10 continuous shots and got bored so I decided to spice it up.

They're starting to join in too.

There we go!

Yup!

Strike a pose

These are just a taste of all the pictures we did with the tri pod. There must be about 30 and they all make me laugh! Merry Christmas Eve...next up...Christmas Day at Grandma and Grandpas! (but probably tomorrow...my bed is calling my name.)

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Enchanted Tracks and Trick or Treat

This was obviously written on 10/31, but I never got pictures put into it so I never published.

Saturday night, I finished up at the event I had for Mac Kid and this time the kids came as participants.


Matt entered them into the costume contest under "Most Original." We had it in the bag, until the unsuspecting "Recycle Bin" who, by the way, was super cute, entered last minute. We did win crowd favorite though! When Matt introduced the kids and their costumes, the whole bleachers went "Awwww!"




On Monday, we took the kids to our new-old (It's new because, we just moved in, but it's sort of old because our townhouse is only around the corner about 3 blocks away, so this really is our old neighborhood too) neighborhood for Trick or Treating.







They were actually pouring our driveway on Halloween.


When we came back from Trick or Treating we put the kid's hand prints in the cement in the dark. It was very funny and something I will never forget. Especially because the guys were still there working and they kept smoothing it out because Parker kept scrunching her fingers.

Lane loved it this year just as much as last year. He did pick which houses he wanted to go to though. He wasn't a fan of the "scary" ones.


Parker was content in her stroller snacking on her black bean quesadilla! If she only knew what was going in her brother's bag. :-)

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The beach at Folly Beach

Hi Lou Lou!

Taking a break from eating sand to eat a plum. 

Grandpa bought Lane this super cool shovel for digging

Except he mostly ordered everyone else to dig!

In the morning the beach was especially awesome because the tide was low and Lane liked to play on the "islands" (as he called them)

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