Merry Christmas!!! It's Jesus' birthday!

Santa Clause came to our house!!!!

He even left foot prints of snow on the living room floor...

Charlotte will be so excited.

He even ate almost all of the beautiful cookies...and had the delicious milk to follow.

He left many treasures under the Christmas tree.

Charlotte couldn't believe her eyes.

"Hoho" brought Charlotte a table and chairs!

"Whoa!!! What's that?"

Merry Christmas, Charlotte and Sawyer.

Our first Christmas morning as a family of four.

Our kids look a bit crazy in all of these pictures :)

Sawyer's first Christmas.

She cracks me up. She had three or four Hershey Kisses. She is obsessed.

To: Sawyer   Love, Santa

Sawyer loved his little jumper.

We opened presents throughout the day. We had a big breakfast and snacked throughout the day. We had candy, snacks, cookies, and we all took a BIG nap. Grandpa Ronnie called to see how the kids' morning had been and to wish the kids a Merry Christmas.

Mom and Dad spent Christmas Eve night at Grandma Ann's house in Carrollton and then got up at 4 am to head to our house on Christmas Day. They got to our house by 4 pm. I had prepared a Christmas meal which included a turkey, potatoes, corn, rolls, stuffing and Alex prepared a few simple appetizers.

We finished opening the last few presents with Gigi and Papa here to watch. We also gave Gigi her presents that were too big to take back to Illinois with us on the air plane.

This was the best picture out of four.

We. Are. Fancy. (Uncle Poop got her this when she was born. Cool, right?)

To finish off our fabulous Christmas Day, we had a Santa Clause cupcake cake. 

And we unloaded the entire SUV filled with our Christmas presents from Illinois. Mom and Dad had two small bags...the rest was our luggage and our presents. 

We hope everyone had as fabulous of a Christmas as we did! We are so blessed to have been able to see half of our family and spend our holiday together.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Christmas Eve 2012

Christmas Eve was very a full day for us. We woke up at 3:30 am so that we could get to the airport in time. (We had spent the night at Grandma Ann's house and Dad was taking us to the airport to make our 6:30 am flight.) The only options for our flight (the cheaper ones) was to get to Atlanta by 9:30 am or not until 7:30 pm. So we opted for the painful early morning flight. OUCH.

The day before had been such a big day and even though I went to bed around 10 pm ish, I did not sleep much. Sawyer was up a few times and eventually mom took him so I could sleep. So, we got up and headed to Lambert Airport in St Louis. Charlotte and Sawyer slept the entire way to the airport. We literally took them from the bed to the carseats. They didn't even wake up at all. We got all checked in with enough time to get a bagel for breakfast.  

When we got onto the plane, it was packed. We were in the very last row with some poor teenage girl. There ended up being a few empty seats closer to the front of the plane and she jumped all over those. We were able to spread out so we could all sleep on the flight home. That part was fabulous...

Once we landed, paid for parking, and got onto the interstate, we decided we needed real food and a potty break. So we stopped at Chick-Fil-A in Newnan for lunch to eat in the car. It was perfection. The kids both took naps. We got home around 1 pm. We got ourselves settled, had a delicious dinner and made some cookies for "Hoho" to eat. 

Charlotte was a BIG fan of making and icing cookies.

Shake those sprinkles, girl!

She was so impressed with her work.

"Yummmmm"

Yeah, this girl is a HOT mess.

She loves her cookies.

CHEESE!!!

We got the kids all dressed up in their Christmas jammies and ready for bed.

We set the cookies and milk out for Santa. Charlotte was so excited to share her cookies with him.

She also kept trying to steal them.

Sawyer wants the milk. Charlotte is sneaking a sprinkle.

Both of them eyeing the sugary deliciousness.

"Nigh-nigh SawSaw"

It was time for bed. The sweet babes went right to bed. It had been a long day to say the least :)

So excited for our entire day at home on Christmas Day.

I Spy With My Little Eye...

Mary is a bit of a creeper. She just kind of shows up. She likes to photobomb.

Look at her creeping in these photos from Grandma Ann's at Christmas... 

Love it.

Thanks, Bare :)