MERRY CHRISTMAS

Okay, so I had a few extra minutes before work. Here are some Christmas morning shots:

Evidence that Santa Claus had been here





Tucker is opening his big present...what could it be?


It's the TV he asked for! He is so excited. And it is already hooked up in his room with the Wii!





Carter can't wait until the snow is gone so he can ride his new bike!


Mommy and Riley snuggling on Christmas Morning!


Anything Thomas is always a hit with Carter.


Tucker remembered that Santa brings stocking stuffers too!


Movies to watch on his new TV


Carter looooves his trains!

That's it for now. Merry Christmas and God Bless you and your family!

CHRISTMAS EVE

Last night was our annual Christmas Eve Open House at the Morris House. Every year the whole family comes in and out for hours on end to eat good food, exchange gifts, and take the time to catch up with each other after another busy year. This has been going on for as long as Jeff can remember, things have changed a bit of course. He is no longer one of the kids running around on a sugar high. It is his children, nieces, nephews, and cousins that he is chasing after. We had a wonderful time last night. The only thing that would have made it complete would've been to have my family with me.

Uncle Marc showing Gage how to build paper airplanes with Poppy on his lap!


This little beauty is Layla one of the cousin's little girls.


Colleen made it home for the holidays to see the family. We sure do miss her!!!!


My nephew Sidney quietly playing.


Tucker just loooooves babies. This is our newest nephew Louis Scott.



The only evidence that I was there. Landon and I hamming it up!


Amelia and Melynda playing together.


Aunt Amanda the Librarian is reading to Amelia and Poppy.


Uma and Tucker


Anaya and Ronwan


And Jeff even let me snap a photo of him tonight!

Christmas morning was a blast. But I do have to work tonight...so pictures of today will have to wait until tomorrow!

O' CHRISTMAS TREE O' CHRISTMAS TREE!

So we have finally finished decorating for Christmas. The stockings are up, the candles in the windows, and tonight we decorated the Christmas Tree.

This is Parker and Grace's ornament that was given to us at one of our Christmas Memorials. I couldn't have come up with any better saying if I tried.


Our tree!


Can you guess whats coming?


Jeff surprised me and dug out my Dad's old train. He has been working on it for a couple of weeks. So we set it up under the tree last night. Here are a couple of shots.











Tucker loved decorating his own tree in his room.

STRONG MUSEUM OF PLAY

The other week Jeff and I took the kids on a little impromptu day trip. We took them to Rochester to the Strong Museum of Play. This is one of our favorite places to take them. I mean can you imagine a whole museum of toys and play things to explore?

HURD ORCHARD

I had a birthday in November. My present from my mom was her flying up here to join in our annual tradition of going to the Hurd Orchard for a Thanksgiving Tasting. This is one of my favorite things EVER!!! We drive about 2 hours away to a working fruit farm and eat in this beautiful old barn decorated with flowers grown on the farm. There were 23 recipes to try and I couldn't pick one that I liked better than another. While the food was good, my favorite part was my mom being there with me!

Jeff took a few fun shots of Mom and I before we left!



Girls just wanna have fun!


These are some of the dried flowers that hang from the ceiling of the market.


Jams and Jellies fill the cupboards of the market.








All of the Moms and Daughters that went.


C-Man cute as ever!

Almost caught up folks!