The remainder of our Christmas festivities

Whew, last post for today!! There are ALOT of different posts below this one....so keep scrolling down!!

Our Christmas festivities continued throughout the weekend. On Saturday we had dinner with the rest of Kevin's family at Maw-Maw's. We forgot our camera that day so no pictures to show...but we had a great time over there - and ate entirely TOO much!!

On Sunday Bill and Carleane (Bull and Bubba)came over to see Garrett and eat dinner. After a much needed change from Turkey to pizza we opened presents!! Garrett got a new art desk from them!! He also got a GeoTrax track, as well as a fire station. He loved all of it!

In order to not make another post, in this collage I added the pictures of Garrett's new bed. On Sunday we changed his crib into a big boy bed!! So far he has done great! (If I had written this 30 mins. ago I would be able to tell you that he has yet to get out of bed and has laid right down every time and gone straight to bed. However, I can't say that anymore! I put him down for a nap, and about 20 mins later I thought I heard something like movement on the baby monitor - didn't think much about it- and didn't get up to go check. Next thing I heard wasn't "Mommy" - but instead just a quiet but yet constant knock on his door until I opened it....and there he stood!! Needless to say - this nap has taken alittle bit longer to take place- but alas I think he is asleep!!)

 

Christams Evening

We finished out Christmas over at Mom and Dad's. Gran, Sandra and Rick were able to come down from Virginia and join us for dinner. We pigged out (no pictures of that-thank you very much!) - then opened even more presents. Garrett made out with tons of stuff from Mimi and Papa - his favorite - all his Thomas the Trains!! He got a hugh Mickey Mouse from Sandra and Rick (sorry no pictures- blame Kevin he was the photographer), and some Handy Mandy pajamas from Gran (again-blame Kevin)!! It was a great day spending time with family, and remembering the true meaning of Christmas.

 

Other gifts Christmas morning

 

Uncle Tyler was there too...even from Korea

Thanks to modern day technology Tyler was able to join in on our morning craziness!! It was Christmas evening for him, so he wasn't as sleepy as we were!! We wished he could be with us...but this was the next best thing!! Skype is a WONDERFUL thing!!

 

 

Christmas Morning

Christmas morning started for us bright and early. 6:30 to be exact!! Dad (Papa) and Whitney came over to see Garrett with all his new toys and to have breakfast. Mom (MiMi) couldn't come this year because of work...but we caught up with her later in the day

 

Santa Came!!!

Leaving cookies and a picture out for Santa.

 

Garrett must have been a good boy all year. Santa showed up and brought Garrett TONS of new toys....and the bike he asked for!!!

 

 

Christmas Eve at Scott and Robin's

Our family Christmas festivities started at Scott and Robin's house on Christmas Eve. We had a great meal then watched the kids open presents!! We had a great time. It was home early that evening to get ready for Santa!!

 

 

 

 

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve started with a gift from Mommy and Daddy before we headed to Uncle Scott and Aunt Robin's house. What was the gift you ask....well new pajamas of course!! Lightning McQueen and 'Mater to be exact!!

 

 

 

 

SNOW!!

We had our first snow yesterday/last night! We managed to get I'd say around 2-3 inches!! We went out this morning to play in it. Garrett had a good time. It took him awhile to get used to it b/c during the night we also had freezing rain- so it wasn't fluffy snow- more like "ice-snow". Anyway, once I showed him he could have fun by throwing snowballs at Daddy, he warmed right up :), but then he turned against me and started hitting me!! Overall, we had a great time playing in the snow!




Earning his keep

Christmas Program 2009

It's really late- and I'm tired...but I wanted to go ahead and post this for a certain someone in Korea that asked ever so nicely to see it :)
This is most of Garrett's portion. They combined the 1 year old room and the 2 2 year old rooms for it. Garrett did so good (atleast he stayed up there). Sorry for the horrible tape job....I was trying to get around the little girl infront of Garrett (or the one Garrett was hiding behind), laughing my butt off, and my knees were KILLING me from crouching down!! Anyway, we think he did awesome...and we think we have the cutest little boy up there!! :) Enjoy!!

Santa Visit 2009

As a certain someone (Summer) pointed out - I have been very lazy updating the blog lately :) I have yet to post Thanksgiving pictures, however I hopefully will do that soon. We had a great Thanksgiving weekend visiting all our family! Tyler was home visiting before leaving for Korea so that was an added bonus! We had a great time.

Ok-onto the Santa pictures. Garrett for weeks, well maybe months, has been saying he wants Santa to bring him a bike (don't know where he got that from). We told him that he had to tell Santa that he has been good all year and wanted a bike. So, off the the mall yesterday we went. Papa is in town for Garrett's first Christmas program (more on that later), so he was able to join us. As you can see by the pics, Garrett didn't want to sit on Santa's lap. Kevin said the minute he walked over there with Garrett, Garrett looked at Santa and said "bike, bike!!". We managed to get a high five-but that's about it. Wasn't as bad as last years experience - so maybe next year will be even better! There is also a picture of Garrett with his new "big" Mickey Mouse. Mimi and Papa were in NY for Thanksgiving to go to the parade. Macy's has a annual Mickey, and they got Garrett's this years "look". He LOVES it. He was holding it while watching Mickey this morning.

Garrett has his first Christmas program tomorrow night. We are SO excited. His class will be singing "Frosty the Snowman"! We will see how he reacts to being up infront of alot of people! Hopefully he's not like his Mommy and afraid!! I will try to get pictures up either Monday night or Tuesday of this!

Enjoy!! :)

Annual Family Picture waiting for Santa. Don't know why that big white dot is on Kevin's shirt. Blame Papa he took the picture!! :)


Oh, if we only knew what he was really thinking!!!

"Hey, he gave me a coloring book- maybe he's not so bad after all"

Fall Pictures (2)

 

 

 

 

Fall Pictures (1)

 

 

 

 

Happy Halloween!!!!!