Our Christmas in pictures

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS to all our loved ones!!! We had kind of a rough one as the man was so sick!! I've never seen Mark so sick since I've known him. He completely missed Christmas Eve at his Mom's house and he was in and out all of Christmas day at our house. I'm not sure how much he really remembers. Luckily the kids were hardly phased and still had a wonderful Christmas...got tons of loot of course! More importanntly though, we had a magical time at Church on Christmas Eve with the candlelight service and a wonderful time with family. We are blessed indeed.

Here's the pics of the week!

This is the "other family pic" that wasn't our Christmas card! :P
Gracie got to make gingerbread men. She and Papa did a fab job!

Daddy helped make Luke's gingerbread house...(before he was bed ridden, this was last Sunday)

Luke's half done....

...and the finished product!

Nana put together Allie's house.

Half way...

and finished!

Got a great pic of the kids on Christmas Eve while they were fresh!

They got to open one gift before church.

Can you FEEL the excitement?? OH YA!!!

Allie was OH so excited to get her Nintendo DS! Luke looked at his and said "What's this?" LOL! And Gracie got a hand held V-Smile. Now you may think...why on EARTH would they get their best gift Christmas EVE??? Well, we open presents with Mark's side of the family that night and DS games were part of the gifts!! Kinda woulda spoiled the surprise if they'd opened the games first don'tcha think?

Happy children!

Allie and Grandma played duets on the piano!

See no evil....

Hear no evil....

Speak no evil!!! We love those cousins!

Allie's loot.

Grace buried in her loot.

and little Lukey

Matt and Travis had fun with Luke's toys too!

Then we came home and set out homemade cookies for Santa!!

And then SANTA CAME!!!!

Left lotsa loot in the stockings too! (mine was empty...I was naughty. was totally worth it though....)

Happy babies geared up to attack!

And they're off!!

What a massacre.

From our messy house to yours! We hope you had a fabulous Christmas!