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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This pretty much sums up the past 2 weeks!

But it was also TOTALLY fun, relaxing, exciting and magical!!! I'll be back with pictures from Christmas 2011!!!

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And we can't forget the

sleepover at Grandmas (and Grandpas),

but according to Lane Grandpa sleeps at work. Haha! (Grandma got a kick out of that one!)


but he still loves him anyway! :-)


Hey! Look! I was there too!


And Matt joined us for a few of those days.


And the finale of our trip....the fireworks!


Trying to talk him down.




He did much better this year, but still covered his ears for a lot of them


We showed up about 15 minutes before they started. Found the perfect (close) parking spot and a nice spot under the bridge to watch them. We got in and got out!




Parker loved them!





We still have the Mattioda Family Reunion, but that's for another day!

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We

celebrated new life:


and old life (What?! Who said that? you're not old Papa!)


chilled


learned how to fish


ate summer treats


became a city girl










and that was only the first week!

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