Merry Christmas 2010

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!!  Christmas is my favorite time of the year!  Lexy is 4 this Christmas and Delaney is 17 months (and in to everything may I add).  Lexy was so into Santa and everything Christmas this year.  She wrote her letter to Santa all by herself...I help her spell the words.  It was adorable...of course writing/letters/sounds make my feet tingle...haha....that's why I teach kindergarten!  I love to see her personality come out through her writing....N. E. Wayz, enough about that.  I hope to scan her letter and put it on here.  I think the thing she wants most is a purple unicorn pillow pet.  I think Santa can swing that.  Delaney wants a baby doll....she is so into the baby thing.  She loves to hold them, and brush their hair.  Too cute!  I hope Santa gets her a doll.  Here are some pics (a few, I hope, because I have probably a few hundred of just Christmas) of our 2010 family Christmas!  Enjoy!

 

gets a little hard to read at the bottom because she wrote down hill, but it says, from top:

pillow pet

books

barbie

rapunzel

leapster

bicycle

helmet

basket

movie

This picture wasn't taken on Christmas, but on Sunday before Christmas in their matching Christmas Dresses.

Family Christmas Photo

Our tree

The menu: 

Christmas Eve lunch....SNACKS!

Hot dogs with bacon and brown sugar and cheese dip.

Lexy and her new ring with initials.

Delaney's hand and new ring with initials.

Seeing Lily for the first time....Lexy named her.

Nanna and Papoo

Look at Huddy refusing to look only b/c everyone wanted him too.

Christmas Eve night in their Christmas p.j.'s...

Delaney in her new chair Santa brought.

"Awwww...it's what I really really wanted!"

The first slide down

 Laney bug lovin' on her baby...and when Delaney played with her baby she found out that she would cry, suck her paci, and make noises...Delaney doesn't say much at all, but she looked right at me and said, "Her Cry"...I was like, yeah, she does....it surprised me because she had never said either of those words, but it let me know that she CAN say stuff...she just doesn't.

 Lex trying out her new set of wheels

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, To Gatlinburg We Go!

Here are some pictures of our Gatlinburg 2010 trip with Zach and Amy and Hudson.  So much fun I tell ya.  We visited Santa too.  Lexy loved him, Delaney...not so sure.  But, we made it through.  He sang Jingle Bells to her so that calmed her down.  Enjoy!

Lexy is 4!

Lexy is 4!  I can't believe it...my baby isn't a baby anymore.  Four just seems so...er...grown-up.  When I was putting her to bed days before her birthday, I looked at her and said, "Lexy, mommy doesn't want you to be four...I don't want you to grow up."  She just looked at me with sympathy and said, "But, mommy, I have to grow up sometime."  Broke. My. Heart.  Not that I don't want her to really grow up...just not now.  I love them little!  Here are a few moments from her party at Chick-fil-A.  Fun, fun times!