Merry Christmas

On Christmas Eve morning we opened our presents here at home. Then we went to my parents house to play games, sing Christmas carols, see Santa and the elves, and open more presents.


Christmas day we stayed at home and the kids played with their new presents.



Corey with his new bib, getting ready to have a snack.

Me and my boy cuddling and waiting for Santa and the elves to come.

Corey climbing on Grandma's present while we were singing Christmas carols.

Connor came to join Corey on the present.

Connor playing with his present from me and John.

Claire giving me a quick smile with her pretty Christmas dress on.

Claire and Corey sharing a sweet Christmas kiss.

Me and Claire waiting for Santa.

Beautiful Sunrise

I looked out the window last Friday (Dec 23) morning and the sunrise was so pretty with purple and pink. About 1/2 hour after I took the pictures the clouds came out and the pretty colors were gone.

I was standing on my front porch when I took these pictures.



Claire and ducky watching me from inside the house. I thought she looked so cute!!

Corey 10 months (Dec 21)

Corey is now 10 months old. He is standing up on everything and it is so cute. I am always finding more things that need to be baby proofed.



Big Boy Chair

Corey has now moved on to a big boy chair. He was standing up in the highchair all day last Monday, so last Tuesday I put him in the booster seat.

Having a snack in the booster seat for the first time.

Claire was very proud to have Corey using her old booster and wanted to jump in the picture with him. What cute kids!!

Kindergarten Breakfast with Santa

Today Claire had breakfast with santa at school. They were able to bring 1 guest with. Claire had made really cute placemats for us at breakfast. While we were eating santa came around and gave each kid a bag of candy. Claire ate all of hers right away. After breakfast Claire had fun running around with her friends, then all of the kidergarteners sat around santa and sang some really cute christmas songs. Claire did not want to leave the school so she was helping the teachers pick up all the crayons off the tables. There was no classes the rest of today. I am happy that Claire loves school so much, and that she has such a great teacher. They do such nice things at her school and I am so greatful that I get to go and see her at school. I am such a lucky mom.

Claire told me that she wanted me to curl her hair for today. It was so pretty.

She looked so beautidul that I had to get a picture before we left.

This tree was set up on the way down to the lunchroom. It was decorated with milk cartons that the kids took home and decorated how ever they wanted. Claire has been wanting me to see this tree all week so I made sure to get pictures.

This is the milk carton that I helped Claire make.

Claire is already eating the candy that Santa just gave her.

The kindergarteners singing christmas songs with santa.

Claire made herself into an elf at school with paper and marshmallows. Her teacher even let her bring home some of the marshmallows that she did not use on her elf.

My little princess helping the teachers pick up all of the crayons.

Cute Corey

Sunday morning I was folding Corey's clothes and he was trying to pull himself up on the basket, so I put him inside. He actually really likes it in there.





Santa's breakfast

On Saturday we went to my parent's church for breakfast with Santa. Linda was there with her Sami and Andy, and Lesa and Tim came with Connor. It was a very nice morning and it was so beautiful how they had it all set up. The santa was actually the childrens pastor back when I was just a little girl.....and his beard is real!!

Santa read the story of Christmas with baby Jesus in the manger.

Every kid that was there was given a stocking from the church. Each one was decorated so nice and filled with goodies. 

Grandma with Corey and Claire after they looked in their stockings. Corey was eating a sucker and gettting all sticky. Claire was getting ready to color in her activity book.

Andrew, Connor, Corey, Sami, and Claire with Santa.