Christmas Eve

Every Christmas Eve we have a little party at my sister Staci's house.  We eat lots of yummy finger foods and then read the story of Christ's birth or watch a video about Christ.  We also do a gift exchange - these are gifts we make for each other.  I absolutely love Christmas and this is one of the things I love about it!

Alli & Addison received puppets for their made gifts and they absolutely loved them!  

Waiting patiently for his gift.  Davis made him a handprinted ornament.

Lailan drew Eloise a heart tree for her room

Carson made Pepa coasters to sit beside his chair

Will & Keaton

Gary made Davis a stocking...everyone needs a stocking

Alli & Addi hanging with Uncle Gary

This is my made gift!  I LOVE it!  

I had Keaton's name and I made him an Angry Bird bowling game

Lailan got a zipper bracelet which I thought was really cool

Here's the game I made

All in all we had a great night...
 

Family Photos

Since we were all together this year for Christmas, and we aren't sure when we will be together again we, decided to do a family photo.  I don't have any of the whole family but I snapped a few pics...

Staci & me

My Dad & brothers (Matt, Will & Marc)

A little family shot - we have a wedding picture in this same spot!

Granny & Anna

Mom & Dad with all their grandchildren - 11 of them!

Staci and her girls (Alli & Addi) with Granny

Eloise

Granny and Davis

He just couldn't be still with his Mema & Pepa

Me & Lucretia

Me & Anna

Uncle Will holding Davis

Keaton's Birthday Party

So my nephew Keaton's birthday is Dec 21st and this year all his aunts & uncles and cousins (except for Anna & Glen) were there to help him celebrate!  My Mom and my sister, Lucretia did a "winter wonderland" theme.  The kids had a race eating marshmellows...

kids on teams waiting to race

All excited ro play

Bryn  

Chapman, they can't use their hands...

But Addison did...

Alli needed a little help reaching the string

Carson and Keaton had no problem reaching to marshmellows - they were pretty quick!

Aubrey even gave Alivia a shot at eating the marshmellows!

After they had their marshmellow-eating-relay-race, they went to throw "snowballs"! (aka marshmellows).  The kids had a blast throwing them at each other!  It was really fun to watch them enjoying it so much!

Getting ready to throw the snowballs!

They had marshmellows everywhere!

Birthday boy, Keaton getting into to snowball fight

Even Lailan participated a little (she's on the right in black)

This was such a funny picture to me, Alli was so excited and having such a great time...I captured this "crazy" look on her face.  She was giggling and dancing around!

After the snowball fight we went inside and my mom had cut out snowflakes and hung them in my Granny's living room...

Gary & Davis didn't get them memo about the activities going on outside

He was getting in a good nap

Snowflakes hung all around

Dad and Alivia waiting for dinner and cake!

They made him a cake in the shape of a snowman, and I thought they did a great job!  All in all I think Keaton had a great birthday party!   Happy Birthday Keaton, We Love You!

Birthday Boy - turned 11 yrs old

Packing for Florida

We decided to head to Florida a little early (3 weeks) and since Davis is such a chunk, I was afraid he wouldn't be able to wear some of the things he has so I took a few pics...The reindeer one, I don't think he was diggin' :-)

Win or lose, we love our Florida Gators

yeah, already a little short on the arms

Davis is 1 month old!!

So this post is a little late as he is two months old tomorrow!  I can't believe how time flies!  Our little guy is getting so big (He was big to begin with but is getting bigger)!  His stats are:

                  Weight: 11 lbs 9 oz
                  Height:  23.5 inches

He is still sitting in the 95 percentile in all (even his head) but at least he is proportioned :-)
At this stage, he still was only sleeping about 2.5 hrs at a time at night (which I wasn't fond of) but it's a good thing he's so cute! :0)