Get ready, it’s a l-o-n-g post.
Christmas Cookie Extravaganza
Our Christmas celebrations began with making cookies with Anna Kate and Amy. The kiddos sure had fun!
They quickly discovered that eating the dough and the sprinkles was way more fun. It reminded me of when we were kids. We always made Christmas cookies with Aunt Donna – some of my favorite Christmas memories. Anyway, she always told us not to eat the cookie dough. Then she would turn around to do something and we’d always sneak bites. Something I always thought I had gotten away with until adulthood! This picture is Reed after I “caught” him eating some cookie dough after I told him not to eat it.
Anna Kate and her Mommy decorating cookies or eating sprinkles.
They seem to be sharing a really funny secret here. One of my favorites.
Sweet hugs. Amy and I always joke that we’ll have some really good photos for their wedding slideshow!
Showing off the goods.They may be a few sprinkles short, missing a point on a star, or have a few bite marks, but they were made with love!
Christmas with the Hollis family
The weekend before Christmas we headed to Clarksville to celebrate Christmas with Michael’s family. Saturday morning, on a suggestion from Grumpy, we all headed to the Customs House Museum in Downtown Clarksville, to see their model train display. Even though the trains weren’t running that day, Reed still REALLY enjoyed looking at them. He could make one of them run himself, and he watched it over and over until it was time to go. Can’t wait to take him back one day when they are running!
Saturday evening we went to the annual Dirty Santa party, this year with a twist – Jody’s 50th surprise party in the mix! Even Santa made an appearance, and all the kiddos told him what they wanted for Christmas. Reed loved Santa and even gave him a hug. I was super-surprised he even sat in his lap, but he did without any hesitation!
Molly really liked Santa, too. She kept her eyes on him the whole time trying to figure him out. She even cried when he left.
On Sunday we opened presents with the family. All the kiddos:
Molly particularly enjoyed the wrapping:
I had made Caleb and Lane superhero capes … I think they liked them! I sure enjoyed watching them fly around with them on!
Cheerios
You might remember me blogging about the first time I gave Reed Cheerios, here. Now it’s Molly’s turn. And I think, just maybe, that she liked them. Really liked them. See for yourself.
Christmas at Home
We had so much fun this year! Reed understood a little more about what was going on, and we got to start a few traditions of our own. When I asked Reed what sort of snack he wanted to leave for Santa, explaining that Santa needed snacks to help give him energy to deliver all the presents, he decided to give Santa ‘monster cookies’ (Sesame Street Cookie monster cookies). Then he decided that those monster cookies were his and he didn’t really want to share them with Santa. So he decided we’d leave Santa some ‘ABCDs’ (Alphabit cereal). Then at the last minute he decided he would indeed share his monster cookies with Santa, so we threw in a couple of those as well.
This is Reed when he first came down on Christmas morning. He was so excited! He couldn’t decide what to do first!
He quickly decided he wanted to check out his new ‘ridecycle” and hopped on. He loves the bell it has on it!
I thought Molly wouldn’t be that interested this year. Well I was wrong! She loved opening her present! And she was even more excited when she saw it was a baby doll, just like Anna Kate’s doll! Molly has always loved Anna Kate’s doll Lily, so of course, that’s just what we had to get her for Christmas!
Molly even (accidentally) matched her new baby doll!
After we opened presents just our family, my extended family came over for brunch and more presents. I’ll have to depend on Aunt Lala to help out with pictures in that department – I dropped the ball on getting photos myself! That afternoon we headed to my folks for the first (will be) annual Nash Family 12k Race. We had t-shirts and everything. Very official! Photos to come. Then a bit later my Mom’s family came over and we celebrated Christmas with everyone, including some fun home movies from when we were kids. Even Reed enjoyed them! We were jumping on the trampoline in the movie, and Reed jumped right along with us!
After Christmas
Yesterday afternoon we headed outside to clean my car and let Reed play with some of his new items. It was pretty cold, so we all bundled up.
Michael says she looks like the kid from The Christmas Story but I don’t care.I think she’s adorable. And she stayed warm and happy.
While I was finishing up cleaning my car, Reed decided to wash his too. He kept asking me to spray more windex on his car so he could scrub it. Reminds me of a certain Papa T who also likes to wash his new vehicles every day.
Did you make it to the end? I warned you it was long! My New Year’s resolution – blog more and stay up to date! This is my version of a scrapbook, so I need to make sure to not have anymore blanks in it! Didn’t get your fill of photos? Not to worry, there are many more! Check out the album here.
on December 28th, 2009 | 3 Comments »
After a weekend of lots of house and yard work, we headed to Granna and Papa T’s on Monday to spend the afternoon on the lake with them and Aunt Khaki. It was the first time this year we’ve been out on the boat and gotten in the water. The kiddos loved it! Reed started by jumping off the boat, and capped it off by jumping off the dock. What a brave boy! He had a blast. He already wants to know when he can ski like daddy. Granna taught him to say he could ski when he was two-and-a-half, but I think we’ll stick to jumping off the dock for now!
