Merry Christmas Everyone!
We hope that everyone had a safe and happy holiday! We had a great Christmas!
Christmas started early for us this year. After we attended our friend Jim's funeral we had Christmas with Rusty's family. It was a little early this year but the only time that we could get everyone together. Everyone had a great time and the food was great. The kids had fun as well as the adults. Thanks Barb, Tim, Kati, Kevin, Ty, Brooke, Chad and Ashley for everything! What a great Christmas!
The next stop was my mom's house in Birmingham. I took the kids over there this past Saturday (Rusty had to work).
Before we got to mom's house we stopped by to see The Sides Family. For those of you that don't know who they are. Me and Kristi use to play with Leslie when we were little. Her grandparents lived next door to our grandparents. We use to sit out on grandma's porch and color and Leslie can remember playing with the mailbox which my mom has at her house now. It was great seeing her and meeting her husband Scott and her daughter Erin. Her son Chris unfortunately had to go to work that morning.
Once we got to mom's house we had so much fun and boy does Mom make the best chili ever! Thanks Mom for having my favorite! We had alot of fun shopping and lots more fun opening the presents! Thanks Mom, Kandis and Matthew for everything! Again - another great Christmas!
Christmas Eve Rusty had to work at the fire station. It actually did not turn out that bad in the beginning since Carrigan was convinced by some little girl at school that Santa comes on the night of the 25th and not the 24th. Therefore they were not driving me crazy with wanting to open presents or asking me what time he was coming. I told Carrigan and Alan that we needed to go ahead and make Santa some cookies just in case he decided to come early. The kids had alot of fun doing this. Thanks mom for making the dough for me and for sending it home with us. :-)
Early Christmas morning I was prepared to do what I needed to do. I woke up at 130am and took care of business. For some reason I could not go back to sleep so I decided to turn on my scanner and see what was going on in the county. Unfortunately, there was a house fire and Rusty and Pat (my brother-in-law) were on the call. I listened to the call until 4am and then finally fell asleep. At 730am my phone rang and it was Rusty heading back to the station from the early morning call. By the time Rusty got home it was after 915am. It was a good thing that Santa wrapped all of the presents this year because it was really hard keeping the kids in the room. Poor Rusty - when he got home he was so tired. It took all that he had to stay awake long enough to watch the kids open their presents, ride their new bikes, eat breakfast and then open the family presents. He could not keep his eyes open. The kids were great and played while we let daddy sleep. He slept until around 400pm and then the kids were all over him. LOL! Tim and Barb came over later that evening and had dinner with us. They brought some more presents and got to see everything that the kids got. It was a fun night.
Here are some of the pictures that I took from our Christmas.
Early Christmas morning I was prepared to do what I needed to do. I woke up at 130am and took care of business. For some reason I could not go back to sleep so I decided to turn on my scanner and see what was going on in the county. Unfortunately, there was a house fire and Rusty and Pat (my brother-in-law) were on the call. I listened to the call until 4am and then finally fell asleep. At 730am my phone rang and it was Rusty heading back to the station from the early morning call. By the time Rusty got home it was after 915am. It was a good thing that Santa wrapped all of the presents this year because it was really hard keeping the kids in the room. Poor Rusty - when he got home he was so tired. It took all that he had to stay awake long enough to watch the kids open their presents, ride their new bikes, eat breakfast and then open the family presents. He could not keep his eyes open. The kids were great and played while we let daddy sleep. He slept until around 400pm and then the kids were all over him. LOL! Tim and Barb came over later that evening and had dinner with us. They brought some more presents and got to see everything that the kids got. It was a fun night.
Here are some of the pictures that I took from our Christmas.
Here is a picture of the front of our house for those of you that didn't get to see it this year.
The Sides Family - Scott, Leslie and Erin
Doesn't their cat look just like our Gigi did?
Alan, Carrigan and Princess in front of the tree! Joan - do these shirts look familiar?
Carrigan and Alan getting ready to decorate the Christmas cookies.
They were both so serious when it came to decorating!
Finger licking good!
Mommy my fingers are yucky!
They were both so proud! They had alot of fun!
Carrigan with her Hannah Montana CD and High School Musical CD
.
Alan and his new train set.
Their new bikes from Santa. They were both freezing but wanted to
ride anyway. Alan's little nose was so red! They only lasted
about 5-10 minutes - LOL!
Alan got a new Mater shirt and Carrigan was enjoying
listening to her new MP3 player. Of course - High School
Musical was playing!
Joan - he wore the Thomas shirt that you
gave him from Saturday - Tuesday! He even slept in it!
I could not get it off of him.
We hope that everyone has a Safe and Happy New Year!
Kim
The Sides Family - Scott, Leslie and Erin
Doesn't their cat look just like our Gigi did?
Alan, Carrigan and Princess in front of the tree! Joan - do these shirts look familiar?
Carrigan and Alan getting ready to decorate the Christmas cookies.
They were both so serious when it came to decorating!
Finger licking good!
Mommy my fingers are yucky!
They were both so proud! They had alot of fun!
Carrigan with her Hannah Montana CD and High School Musical CD
.Alan and his new train set.
Their new bikes from Santa. They were both freezing but wanted to
ride anyway. Alan's little nose was so red! They only lasted
about 5-10 minutes - LOL!
Alan got a new Mater shirt and Carrigan was enjoying
listening to her new MP3 player. Of course - High School
Musical was playing!
Joan - he wore the Thomas shirt that you
gave him from Saturday - Tuesday! He even slept in it!
I could not get it off of him.
We hope that everyone has a Safe and Happy New Year!
Kim
1 comment:
GREAT Pictures!!!!
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