Christmas Morning!

This Christmas was SO much fun!! The kids are at such a great age! We started the festivities on Christmas Eve by sprinkling the reindeer food on the front lawn and leaving cookies out for Santa. In the morning, Mason came running in our room yelling "Santa knows I love Star Wars because all my presents are wrapped in Star Wars Paper!" It was just adorable! The three of them ran down the hall and started ripping presents open before Wayne and I even got in the room!! I have NO idea who sent what!!! It all went so fast!!!

We started a new tradition this year as well: monkey bread after presents! I have an awesome recipe and the kids LOVED it!!

Jessi and Justin with the kids

Santa tends to spoil our kids!

Mason going through his stocking

Aubrey playing with a color wonders book

Lexi in front of her doll houseThe girls with their princess crowns!

Mason and daddy putting together the AT-TE

Tasha digging through the aftermath!

Aubrey....at the end of a long day!

Merry Christmas!

Santa visits Holy Cross!

Holy Cross had a special visitor last week: SANTA! I was lucky enough to be working at the school on this special day and was able to see the action and the priceless look on the kids faces!

The big arrival!

Mason getting his goody bag

Santa with the teachers!

Grandpa Visits

This year, I received the best birthday present! ~a visit from my father!! We had a wonderful couple of days together and the kids did not leave grandpa's side the entire time he was here!

We brought daddy to see the amazing Doyle House! It is tradition that we go see this amazing light display each year (in sync to Trans-Siberian Orchestra Christmas Music!)

Visit to Santa

WOW, it has been a few weeks since I updated the blog! Sorry about that! A lot has gone on in the past few weeks ~ starting with our visit to Santa!

Our Christmas Tree!

Thanksgiving Parade

Last year we missed the Thanksgiving Parade at Mason's preschool while we were in PA on vacation. This year, we had the pleasure of watching all the kids come out and parade around the preschool in their adorable hand-painted costumes! So precious!

Here they come...

Thumbs up!

The Fort!

Last year, we bought a wooden swing set for the kids. There was a big open space under the "fort" for a sand box. However, we already had a sandbox, and it was larger than this space! So, for a whole year, that space just grew weeds and begged for some TLC.

Recently, Wayne (Mr. Handyman) decided to close it in and make a little house out of it: complete with a door, windows AND tile floor!!!! We painted the outside the same color of the trim on our house and then let the kids go to town with some other colors. They had a blast making hand prints and smearing paint on their new house!!!

Daddy even put some "kids graffiti" on it: Danger, Members Only, Keep Out....all spelled wrong, with backwards letters! Very Cute Touch!

Yes, even Tasha likes it!