Friday, January 21, 2011

Happy 3rd Campbell

On January 2nd, we celebrated Campbell's 3rd birthday at our house! I can't believe she is already 3. Campbell had fun playing with her friends and enjoying yummy cake.
Cupcakes and ice cream cone cake pops!
Going out for Mexican is a fun tradition!

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Christmas Part 2

Carter loves opening gifts. In fact he wanted to open all the gifts; not just his! As Carter opened each one of his gifts he did so with much enthusiasm. He said things like, "Oh my word," "what in the world?" "This is exactly what I wanted!" It was cute!
Campbell gets a Holiday Barbie every year from Brandon. Yes, she has to keep it in the box!
Carter gets baseball cards every year for Christmas! And yes, those stay in the box too!
Mimi and Pop Pop
We love Mimi!

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Christmas Day Part 1

We had a wonderful Christmas. The day was filled with magic and wonder and SNOW! The kids loved it! The only white Christmas we have ever experienced is in NY, so snow in Georgia was a treat! We played in the snow and made snow cream! Such a fun day! Santa got the kids a HUGE gift this year which they have enjoyed playing on when the weather hasn't been too chilly.
Stockings outside their rooms waiting for them.
Opening stockings
Santa gifts inside! Carter was so excited to get a Pillow Pet! He would recite the commercial to me every time he saw them in the stores!
Campbell spots the swing set!
Fort Van Orden! Carter said that he head Santa with his hammer and nails at night putting it together. Little does Carter know, Santa's elves installed in on the 23rd and we had to keep the kids from seeing it! I stacked presents in the windows so the kids couldn't see out and we kept Carter out of the house both days. Thankfully all the hard work paid off! Carter's exact words were, "What . . . in . . . the . . . world!" Campbell said, "A swing set for me? Yayyyyyy!" We let them go out and play on it in their pjs and coats before the snow really started to come down. It was sleeting but the kids had fun! I can see many memories being made in the back yard. I just hope it's memories and not broken bones :o)
Pure joy!

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Christmas Eve

Carter was a shepherd in the Christmas Eve program at church. He is dressed in blue on the far left.
Christmas Eve after church
Opening Mim's Christmas Eve present . . .
a recording of her reading this book.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

O Christmas Trees

Boy do I have a bunch of catching up to do. It's going to take me a few days to get all on here. We will start with our trees. I had fun decorating the new house this year for Christmas. The kids had fun decorating their trees too.
Family Room tree
Tree topper
Carter's red tree
Campbell's pink tree