Merry Christmas Eve 2009

Glenn Beck/Bill O'Reilly Bold Fresh Tour tickets for our favorite raging conservatist

Surprise for Matthew!

I smell hamburgers!

Playing Mario Bros

Encore Christmas Party

The only Christmas party that we went to this year I wound up working. The dance studio has an annual party that is a fund raiser for Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters (CHKD). Since the first year that I started my photography business I have been donating a sitting and portraits to the auction. This year I offered to have a photo booth and have all the profits go to CHKD as well. I think it went over pretty well, we raised approximately $150, and that is pretty good considering it is a small party. I was happy and will probably do it again next year. Here are a couple of pictures of Savanna, one with Lance and two with her dance BFF, Linda.

Random pictures

I took these of Savanna and Matthew tonight and I liked them - so I'm blogging them :-)

Happy Birthday Ryan!

Yeah, our singing is REALLY bad!

Pretending there are candles

Blowing out the Yankee Candle

My baby turned 24 last Sunday. It is so hard to believe that he is that old! I guess I say that every year but I mean it every year too! He met us for lunch after his get-together with his friends got rained out and then came back over to the house for a little while. We had cake before Savanna left for work and then he left to go to dinner with one of his friends. I could not find any birthday candles at the store - I looked where the birthday cake supplies were and they didn't have any - and I was just too tired to stop anywhere else so he didn't get any candles. That is what it is like when your birthday is in December.

Christmas Decorating

My beautiful daughter

Savanna did a great job!

Um, where's Roxie?

Look at Mama!

Umm, excuse me! She's gone agan!

Finally!

Things sure change when the kids are grown. We used to have an evening set aside when everyone would decorate the tree. We would all go to choose the tree from the local Christmas tree lot and then the next evening Brad would put the tree up and the lights on and then the rest of us would decorate. The kids would typically fight over who got to hang each ornament - Christmas music played and it was a good family time. Fast forward to this year. Brad put up the fake tree on Monday so that Savanna and I could decorate after she got off work on Tuesday. We did play Christmas music - once we were able to get Matt to turn off his game - I hung my special ornament and Savanna did the rest, while I took pictures. After the tree was finished we needed to get the annual Christmas picture of the dogs in front of the Christmas tree. That was a little more challenging than usual because Roxie was in a really frisky mood. But, once Savanna got her calmed down we were able to get a cute picture of the girls.

Jack's First Christmas

Jack with his daddy - Steve

He loved the toy that Santa gave him

Quick power nap

Nonnie (LeeAnn) with Jack

Santa, Gina and Jack

I went with LeeAnn, Nan, Gina, and Steve and of course Jack to Lake Taylor's Breakfast with Santa this morning. LeeAnn is the Human Resource director at the hospital and her department is in charge of the activities for the employees. They put on a great breakfast with Santa. I was along as Jack's personal photographer - haha! Lee is so sweet to share her little grandson with me, he is absolutely one of the best babies I've ever seen. They say he gets cranky but I've never seen it. He can be passed around by relatives and strangers alike and still smile and be sweet. When he gets tired he pops his thumb in his mouth, takes a quick power nap and he is good to go for another few hours. I saw him at Nick's wedding get passed around like crazy and he never complained - what a trooper. Here are some of the pictures I took - he is a cutie! And much cuter than the dogs which is what you usually get on here! LOL