TN Christmas (Part I)

Chase and his glow worm from Mamu

Rachel and Julia

Karin and cousin Brandi

This is when he rolled over!

What?

The boys chillin

The boys!

Mamu and Chase

Gigi reading to Chase-he loved it!

Grandaddy, Gigi, and Chase

Such a teenager:)

Jackson sharing Star wars toys with Chase

Brian and Chase

Rachel and her clone

Katie loved the dress I picked out

Chris opening our gift

Tayler, Rachel and her clone:)

Chris opening our gift

Brian is very excited about Jackson's Star wars toys:)

Jackson opening gifts

So cute Katie!

My dad opening our gift

Katie

Jackson opening gifts

I tunes.....ah yea!

Gigi is opening her gift from us

Julia as Santa:)

Jackson opening gifts

Tayler's favorite gift, Fuzzibunz:)

Jackson is so funny

Knoxville with my side of the family was awesome and so relaxing. We pretty much just chilled out, ate some great meals, went downtown to iceskate, and visited with family. Chase rolled over for the first time while we were there. We all "hoorayed" in excitement to which Chase cried....it was cute. We had a great time visiting with everyone and I truly treasure our family time. On our last day, Chris, Brian, and Tayler went to see a movie at IMAX while Rachel, the kiddos and I had sushi. Good times!

PS My younger sister, Katie, is going to email photos of the iceskating and Rachel is going to email some group pics from Downtown....so hopefully I can get them posted soon.

Christmas 08 (and 15 week update)

Too precious for words

Ocean wonders rock!

15 week pic

Snazzy famous look-new outfit

Playing in my santa outfit:)

Dad's stocking

Mom's stocking

Tayler's stocking (that has his first name on it-Christian)

Football cards rock!

Tummy time!

"Xbox live! Yes!"

Another toy for my playroom! Woo hoo!

Clothes again?

Dad got me my first Cowboy outfit:) -for those of you who don't know-Tayler had an obsession with shirts and pants like these in his toddler years-lol

Asleep after Christmas Eve Service

Tayler's new love, Chess

Dad got gifts this year...lol

Opening Batman

Hooray for Sugar cookies!

Goofball with new pj's

Opening our Christmas Eve pj's

Making the cookies!

Big brother!

"I love you too, Cookie"

Ocean wonders gift

Short prayer cards for hubby and children:)

Chase's first Christmas gift

This year was Chase's first Christmas.....it was very memorable- but of course- went by too quickly. We attended our Christmas Eve service (I worked five hours of it) then we came home, watched movies, and ate the traditional sugar cookies that Brian and Tayler make (homemade icing and all:) Tayler held Chase all throughout the service and those around us commented on what a great big brother he is. He even got him to sleep. When we got home, we opened our traditional pj's. We do this each Christmas Eve.

Christmas morning, we had our traditional sausage casserole along with Brian's mom's famous monkey bread (the casserole was her's as well) Tayler made us a gift this year. He made a scrapbook of our wedding pictures. It was very thoughtful and it meant a lot to us that he made us a gift. He made creative subtitles for each page as well. We opened gifts then watched sports (of course) We topped the day off with Christmas movies and packing for our trip to TN. It was a great Christmas. We are so thankful for all God has given us.

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