Christmas pics second installment

I put a couple of the Christmas pictures up that I was going to, then I realized I didn't get all of them.  Here are some of the others that I was going to post and I'll just forget about the rest.

Sammy and buddy Grandpa watching football.

Family picture... we missed you Sopie and McKay!

Ada and Grandpa do make good cuddle buddies.

Ada is a 'big girl'.  She's got her purse and drives away in Grandma's car.

All four of us opening presents on Christmas morning.  Even our little fairy princess.

Just cause he's cute!

Good ol' Christmas pasttime.  Puzzle time!

Our little Sammy love!

Uncle Brad turned 50 this year... dad is famous for giving him a pair of something... a pair of gloves... one for Christmas and one for his birthday.

Great Grandma and Sammy.

Grandma sharing dinner with sleeping baby!

Ada was Mary this year, Bryant was Joseph and Sammy was baby Jesus.  Fun, but over quick when you use two year olds as your nativity.

These last pictures are just cute.  I love to see how much Jer and Ada love each other.  They are the best parts of my life.

Christmas pics galore!

We've had such a fun and bust week that I don't even really know what to say...  We played 'Swashbucklers' with the Clary's and co. We had Christmas Eve sing-ins with the Wilcox's.  Santa came and even though Ada was scared of her new toy train at first... she loves it now.  Sammy loved the soccer ball and stacking cups.  Ada dressed as a sugar plum fairy and danced while she watched the Nutcracker Ballet... and she woke up this morning to ask if Santa had come again.  I'll let pictures show most of the story, but those were a few highlights.

My mom, dad, Ada, Jeremy and Sammy

Sammy helping mommy work. (I am actually answering some work emails on my laptop... you just can't see it.)

Me, Jer, Sharon, Janelle, Seth, Dad at Tucanos for everybody's birthday dinner.  (My mom, Ada and Sammy were there too.)

My wonderful parents!

Ada!

The cheeser...

Ada and Grandpa stopped to dance to some music as we were passing a store.

Grace playing with horses all Christmas Eve.

Anya... too skinny for her pants!

Robertson group sledding party at Grandma's house.

Jonathon

The sledding train.  Ruth, Mariah, Rachel, and Harrison.

Johnny and Adam

Johnny and Adam... again.

Jonathon.

I love these smiles!

Aubrey and James... the conspiritors.  There plan was to run me over with their sled if they could.

Jonathon decided that ice tastes like food.

Building gingerbread houses with the cousins.

Em, the mastermind.

She mastermided this too... She hit him and ran.

Ada and second cousin Bryant getting ready for the annual Jingle Bells sing along.

Grandma found something cute.

This is how I remember Christmas Eve.  I think I always will.

Warning! Naked babies!

Cute kids... and they're clean to boot!

 

 

 

 

Jer's birthday...

This was our 5th time to be able to celebrate Jer's birthday together.  Yay!  (And for the record... I did say Happy Birthday on his actual birthday... but here it is again... Happy Birthday Jer.)  Jer took the day off from contract work and misc and we just played.  In the morning we made breakfast together and played with the kids.  It was so fun watching Jer and the kids jumping on the bed... well Ada jumping, Sammy was being helped to jump and Jer was tickling them as they came by.  So no... Jer did not actually jump on the bed.  If he had I would have thought that he was trying to show that he was 15 years younger instead of 1 year older.  Then we dropped kids off at Jers parents house while we went to the temple. It was so nice to do an actual endownment session.  I personally haven't done one since Sammy was born... We've done sealings, initiatories, and such... but not endownments.  It was fun to run into Adrien, a high school friend.  Funny to hear Jer's account of a short spanish girl, and watching a huge pregnant lady and being glad that I was not that big pregnant at the moment. Then we went to eat lunch and got stuck in the last Saturday before Christmas traffic... that was an adventure in itself.  Then we took the kids to my parents house and left for another couple of hours.  We went to Barnes and Noble to browse books, walked around the mall and just had an overall enjoyable day. I look forward to spending many more birthdays with my man!

Christmas kindness

I love gruff old men that are soft at heart.  I went to get our two weeks worth of food... and the guy helping me saw that we had asked for a turkey.  He seemed like a stand offish kind of man, and not very openly friendly... but he got all concerned that we were getting a Christmas turkey without any of the dressings like yams, pumkin pie filling, olives, stuffing, etc... so this tough little old man revised my paper without thinking twice about it and I walked out with the unexpected gift of the love and concern of a little old man for a jobless family of four during the holiday season.  Whether I needed the dressings or not, I feel like I needed that love and am grateful for the service that he gave.

Merry Christmas all!

I just wanted to say Merry Christmas to everyone that I may or may not see in the next little while.  Love you all!