I've got my fingers crossed that I'm going to get enough time to post all of my Christmas photos (and maybe even my Thanksgiving ones too) here in the next few weeks.
Will start off with some from Christmas Eve...
After church and opening gifts at my Dad's house, we got back home, got the kids into their pajamas and started making cookies.
I swear - the pictures don't show it - but they bickered the whole time over whose turn it was to stir, who was making their cookies too big, who got to lick the spoon, etc.
And then they started in on letters to Santa (and thankfully, without any bickering.)
Annie asked for a baby sister. (Sorry Yans, that's not happening.)
And then Josh Downs read the night before Christmas before getting all our rugrats in bed...
Sweet! Sounds like a wonderful evening...even with the bickering! Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Stacey | January 08, 2013 at 02:10 PM
I love seeing your Christmas pictures, and love hearing about your real life - so glad that bickering goes on in other houses, not just ours!
Posted by: Carole | January 08, 2013 at 02:26 PM
Beautiful imagery!
Posted by: Mercedes Verrier | January 08, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Oh I can so relate to that bickering you had 2 more stirs than me bla bla bla... Devices me crazy
Posted by: Kathy | January 08, 2013 at 03:16 PM
Y'all need to humor Annie!!! She needs a little brother...lol.
Posted by: kat-in-texas | January 08, 2013 at 03:26 PM
Love them all! Annie covering her mouth is so cute! And the reading of the Night Before didn't happen at our house this year. It's not as cute when one kid has moved out and the other is 16 and a half.
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Your pictures always so lovely! And I like how you tell us the real life scenes - the bickering. Yes that happens around here too!
Posted by: Michelle Bostinelos | January 09, 2013 at 04:00 AM
Love Annie's missing teeth, and is Cole writing in cursive? If so I'm totally impressed - my third grader doesn't do cursive and I don't think there are plans in the elementary school to teach it at this point, sadness.
Posted by: Elizabeth | January 09, 2013 at 12:08 PM
I hadn't really seen it until this post, but your those kids are looking SO grown up! Where does the time go?!?
Posted by: Katie J | January 10, 2013 at 04:43 AM
What a neat tradition to make cookies that night for Santa. I am going to have to remember that one for next Christmas. It is always just DH, the kids and I. Not really any extended family. Fab photos as always!!
Posted by: Michelle | January 10, 2013 at 05:50 PM
I love looking at these photos and knowing that you have to put Annie in the middle so Courtney and Cole won't fight! And even though you said you do the same thing every year, I still think they are pictures worth taking!! And no,you can not tell they are bickering!
Thanks for sharing!
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I asked Santa for a baby sisters for years; never got one (I have three brothers).
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okay. aiden can not write in cursive to save his life and barely legible printing. as of tomorrow he's no longer homeschooling, he can go live wiht you and you can send him with cole! ;)
beautiful pictures. hope ross is doing well!
Posted by: mandy friend | January 12, 2013 at 02:20 PM
Beautiful fmily photos in this post.
I was wondering... what kind of flash did you use (if you did)... it looks like you didn't have day light at the same time there is a nice light on those photos...no flashy light if you know what I mean.
Love the colours and angles in your photos.
Posted by: Anne Marie | January 16, 2013 at 11:27 AM
I like to see these photos, know you must take Annie in the middle, courtney and cole won't fight! Even if you say you do the same things every year, I still think they are pictures worth! !No, you can't tell them quarrel!
Thank you very much for sharing!
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