Holiday in a Flash

We had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. It was full to overflowing with God's goodness to us. From the gift of His Son to the gifts under our tree.
We always start at my mom's house. And in the beginning, I tried to organize the chaos.

Oh when will I ever learn...

It can't be done.

My Grandmother lives with my parents during winter months. I'm selfishly glad to have her here during Christmas and thrilled for the time my kids get to spend with her.
Gregg got a fancy pants new camera from his boss for Christmas so we had fun taking pictures of each other taking pictures. He took most of these pictures.

Our little one wouldn't let go of this football. She's her dad's girl for sure.
Can you tell what they are all yelling...
We goofed off with the cousins...
And my sister made these sweet dresses for all the girls...they love to match.
More goofiness. Actually it was an effort to get a few more minutes of happy out of the little one. Her poor schedule was destroyed but she was a trooper for most of the time. And that's the great thing about a schedule. You just create a new one when the time comes. For us, that's Monday. {sigh}
I stuck this one in b/c she's cute. That's all.
Then it was on to New Years. We always have finger foods and special drinks. Um, come on people... it's root bear. Barks. It's a standard at New Years for us. Now I know we are proud, flag waving white trash. But we're not THAT bad.
We don't set off fireworks, so in their place I got the kids glow sticks. They proved to be a great hit.
And so our new year was wrung in by a little light sabering with the glow sticks. They had to keep themselves awake somehow.
We had a great time and are looking forward to what God has for our little family in 2010.

Happy New Year everyone.