Our family Christmas!!!!

This year we spent the majority of our day at home for the holidays. These pics pretty much tell the whole story. Garrett doesn't look too active because he wole up with a headache that morning and didn't feel too good all day. Alli was pretty into things. Her only hangup was getting tired of unwrapping things. She started handing them to mommy saying "you do it." All in all, things were a huge success and Santa remembered everything!


Here was my present to Greg. A CD with his fave new songs!!! (Thanks to Scott for the help!)
Alli was thrilled to be a new mommy to twins!!!

Greg was helping Garrett figure out Dino-town. He played with it ALL day.

The mess after everything was opened.....

Garrett and train-town!!!!!

Can't give up the babies!!!

Alli's loot.....

Garrett's loot......

With another new baby from "Papa Beatty".

Feeding the baby from papa.....

Hooray for geotrax!!!!!!!

What's in here???

Opening her pretty pink block set!!

Our tree....

Alli's Birthday!!!

Because my parents were down this past weekend for a visit, we decided to put a little more space between Alli's birthday and Christmas. We threw her a great party with both sets of grandparents and both of her aunt's. Cousin Jazzy was here too!

I thought first you all might enjoy a refresher of what last year looked like at this time....

And now for this year's princess!!! My how she has grown!!!

Here she is opening her little mermaid doll. She is quite fond of her!!!

This doll was Belle from Beauty and the Beast...

She wasn't the fastest unwrapper, but remained efficient!!

Took her a while to warm up actually!!

Tinkerbell movie is pretty neat!!

Greg's excitement for the occasion knows no bounds....

She did a good job blowing out the candles! No spit on the cake at all!!!

Here's the pricess cake I made for Alli.... The skirt is the cake and the icing helps to bridge the gap between the doll's waist and outfit.

Handsome Lil Man!!

I was digging through my camera and look what I found!!! Garrett dressed up for Jenny's wedding. He's such a little man!!!

My little vocalists!!

Here's my first attempt at posting videos!!! Sadly, I had the camera turned the wrong direction for Alli's debut. And due to my lack of computer techiness (Yes that is now a word), you will all have a crick in your neck by the time I got it right and moved on to Garrett! So I'm sorry!!!! But they are still my little rockers.

Alli's favorite movie is Over the Hedge, and so she loves the soundtrack. Here she is rockin' the suburbs!!

Garrett still fancies Thomas, so here's his Boom Boom Choo Choo debut. The part he smudges all together is supposed to be "it's easily explained you see, how things go bump in the night. Boom!" And if I wouldn't have cut him off, it would have turned into the song that doesn't end!!