Christmas Came

We did the craziness of Christmas again this year… Drive home, spend the only “Non-holiday” night with friends at “Kringle Fest”, drive to Hilton Head for the Minnicks Christmas Eve Party, race to my parents house that night to be ready for Christmas Morning and be back at Alex’s mom’s house Christmas Night until the next morning!

Whew!

It’s exhausting but we have always agreed that having too many places to go and being tugged in many, many directions is a good complaint to have, especially at the holidays :)

Other than that we spent a lot of time in the kitchen, Tara made the yummiest homemade banana nut bread (that I am still living off of for breakfast each morning), doing last minute shopping, wrapping presents and having a family dinner at El Sombrero before Billy and Angela headed to North Carolina!

Here’s what it all looked liked:

We met baby willow…

Alex’s played with his graduation present to himself- a helicopter!

Tara brought Phoebe to play!

(her was not allowed to get down to play though because her is too white and pretty)

Billy and his flying duck turned out to be a hit!

  Rachel experienced her first “Eve” party with us! Lous and I’s shared our second/Eleventh Christmas this year!All the boys made it this year! 

Christmas morning finally arrived!

Tucker is a pro at opening presents on his own, and it makes it that much more exciting for him I believe!

Presents time!   

Adam’s banana pudding we made him!

Ohh Tara…..

Tara made Oreo Milkshakes!  - mmmmm-

*Merry Christmas 2010*

(Check out Mills face….)

They are always so pathetic when leaving!  Surprise, surprise! We came home to snow! 

We Certainly enjoyed Christmas this year but we sure did miss Billy (and Angela)! I guess when you think about it our family has been spoiled in the past because we have always managed to be together for Christmas…. but that’s how we like it :) ha But we enjoyed the time we got to spend with him and Angela just before Christmas!!

We planned to go on our first Skiing trip in Gatlinburg for New Years and are supposed to leave tomorrow morning and stay through the weekend BUT I have a sick little Lou who has not left the couch in over 24 hours….

Poor baby, I have been keeping him drugged up with the typical- Dayquil/Nyquil, chicken noodle soup, orange juice and oranges!

So we will see how he feels in the morning but I’m preparing myself for our New Year to start with a kiss on the cheek and a soup date on the couch!!

Either way hope you have a happy start to 2011!!