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Pictures with Morgan's brand new digital camera! Enjoy!

She did get a few other shots too!

Merry Christmas!!

What a wonderful Christmas! Filled with the birth of Jesus, family, love, joy, and lots of presents!

I am thankful for my wonderful children and can't imagine my life without them!

Morgan was so excited for Santa to come! She wanted to see right away if Santa ate the cookies we left and drank the milk. She questioned why he didn't eat ALL the cookies or drink ALL the milk. We told her he was probably full and wanted to share with us. So she told Daddy to eat the rest of the cookie and Momma to drink the rest of the milk!

The look on Morgan's face when she opened her gifts from Santa was priceless! She was so excited to rip open her gifts! She was so grateful for everything she got! She got more and more excited!! RJ enjoyed ripping open one or two gifts and then was more interested in just looking around and playing with toys that had already been opened. He was so precious as he ripped little piece by little piece of wrapping paper, and with each rip handed it to Momma or Daddy to throw away. What a wonderful Christmas morning!

After we opened our presents Daddy made eggs and waffles for breakfast! Everyone enjoyed!

RJ took his morning nap and then we all headed to MeMom and Pop Pop's for our family Christmas celebration! The kids were spoiled rotten by MeMom/Pop Pop and Grandmom/Granddad. MeMom gave lots of clothes and a few toys and Grandmom gave lots of toys and a few clothes. Needless to say we barely got all our new presents into my Pilot to bring home! Yikes!! My kids are very blessed to be spoiled the way they are! I am also grateful.

Morgan and her Sleeping Beauty Night Light

Sitting on presents is fun!!

Morgan and her new Camera!!

RJ sitting on his new Zebra... Morgan is jealous!

Morgan and her new Tricycle!

Santa stops by!

How exciting?! Santa stopped by to give one present to Morgan and one present to RJ and to remind them to make good choices, be good, and to sleep soundly!

Morgan was so so excited! She couldn't believe that Santa was visiting her at her house! What a fun start to the party!!

Our entire neighborhood put out Luminaries for Christmas Eve! The pictures don't give it justice, but had to put them on here anyway!

What a wonderful way to welcome in the birth of Jesus!

Our house with our lights and luminaries

Finding the tree...

After we visited with Santa we went and picked out our tree... it felt like it was negative zero degrees out with a negative thirty wind chill! Trying to bundle up two little ones and myself and keep us all out of the mud (from all the rain/ice/snow the day before) in the parking lot was insanely difficult! We took a wagon for the kids to ride in and off we went. Snow was still on the ground so it was so pretty as we wandered around!

We looked around for a while and Morgan was having trouble walking around in the snow with her snow suit attire on... and RJ wanted to be carried everywhere... we couldn't really take the wagon into the trees to find one, just on the trail to the different bunches of trees. We found one faster than usual! (I wonder why?!)

Daddy cut our 2009 Christmas Tree down as Morgan intensity watched him asking him questions the whole time! What are you doing Daddy? It is going to fall? What do you say when it falls?

We paid for it and got it into the car... undressed everyone trying not to get mud everywhere... and headed home... ALL of us exhausted!

Santa!

This was the best we could do... FYI RJ was still sick but if we wanted to see Santa today was the day... poor guy... I'm sure if he was feeling better he would have had a big happy smile! Morgan looks pleasant! She asked Santa for a choo-choo train! Santa asked Morgan like Thomas, she said yes and then Santa started naming other trains that appear on Thomas. Now Morgan doesn't really watch Thomas so she was kind of just staring at Santa like, "I have no clue what he is saying to me, but whatever you say is good!" I was impressed with Santa's knowledge!! We walked right in with no wait to see the big guy! Perfect timing on our part!

Personal Day = Gingerbread house

Today I took a Personal Day so that we as a family could go see Santa and then go pick out our tree cut it down and bring it home to decorate... well... plans seemed to change! RJ woke up with a 102.5 fever and was just cranky... oh... and it was raining and ugly outside... bummer... I burned a personal day to stay home with a sick child! No fair!!!

CHANGE OF PLANS...

A week or so ago said Daddy wanted to make a gingerbread house with Morgan. Originally he asked me to make the gingerbread... I smiled and said... ok... (in what time I was thinking?!) When I was out shopping I bought a gingerbread house kit (smart thinking Momma!!) Since we were all home and couldn't follow through with plan A, we changed to plan B and Daddy and Morgan got to work on their gingerbread house! As you can see Daddy and Morgan had a great time making their candy filled house!! We weren't quite sure if the roof was going to make it... but it did! It looks great for Morgan's first house and now it is being displayed in our china cabinet for all visitors to see!

Daddy getting the house ready!

Look at all the candy choices!

Start decorating!

Look at me Momma!

This is so much fun!

Eat some candy... put some candy on the house...

FINISHED PROJECT!!

looks awesome!

SNOWMAN SNOW!!!

I am so excited to report that we had snowman snow!!!

As you can see Morgan loved it... RJ... not so fond of the snow... he was without his morning nap, so lets hope that was why! Snow is so much fun!!

First SNOW!

Me, the psycho mom suited us all up and took a walk around the neighborhood in the falling snow! I love love love the snow! I am a kid at heart!! Couple shots from our walk!