Christmas!!

When Josh asked if I'd like to spend Christmas Eve & morning at my parent's house, it didn't take me 2 seconds to say yes!!  It was soo fun, and really helped us make it through a fun but long Christmas day since we didn't have to make a round trip in one day! On Christmas Eve, we brought back a family tradition from long ago of making milkshakes! (who needs milk and cookies!?) Needless to say, both kids LOVED it. Charlotte wouldn't let anyone near hers..guess she was thinking we were going to try to steal a bite...we would never..uh, ever..do something like that... mm hmm.. Liam was being fed from both sides and keeping up with the double-bite pace!  Christmas morning was awesome!! We brought our presents to the kids down with us, since we weren't going to have time at home before we needed to head over to Josh's parents house.  We had a great time with them and a wonderful night with that side of the family!! Alas, no pictures though.  I have to confess I stole all of these (every post today, actually) from a memory card my parents had!  Our camera is still missing!  Therefore, we didn't take a single picture once we got back to Winston Salem!  If anyone has pictures of Christmas afternoon or night, please let me know and I'll add them to this post!

 yum, yum, gimme some.

 Cheese!

 this is for me?!?  (thank you, craigslist!)

 look at this real screwdriver, Daddy!

 OH MY GOSH...Tinkerbell Fairies!!

Belated Merry Christmas from the Halls!

Christmas 2010: Nana's Side!

 Enjoying an awesome dump truck from Uncle Eddie!

 Cousins!! Reunited!! (Garrett is the world..er..country traveler of the fam!)

Charlotte in Love with the ladybug outfit from Aunt Wanda (no that isn't my mom...strong and good lookin' gene pool, though huh?) and Uncle Ron! We had to put in on right away before continuing the present opening!

Stewart Christmas!

(Liam in high chair, Wyatt standing by table next to his brother Hunter, Sam, Charlotte, Sam's twin younger sisters Kayla and Kinzie ~Scott & Jamie, forgive me if I misspelled).

We had a low-key and super-fun (hyphenating, anyone?)  Christmas get together with my Dad's side of the family.  Between my three cousins and myself we have added 7 children to the family in the past 4 1/2 years. (I'm saying 4 1/2 because surely Sam cannot be 5 already!)  For some reason, probably an excessive amount of caffeine, I couldn't hold the camera still all night..here is the best (using that term loosely) shot of all the youngest generation!!

Disney On Ice...again..

Just a couple quick shots of our sweeties during the visit to Disney On Ice: Princess Classics!

Thanksgiving Tree Trip 2010

We always go up to Boone/Blowing Rock after Thanksgiving for a big meal at Dan'l Boone Inn and cut a Christmas tree!  This year was a little different..

We enjoyed several parks around Boone/Blowing Rock, and a stroll around Moses Cone Lake with Nana and Poppy the Sunday before Thanksgiving.  We moved our traditional Friday trip around a bit this year due to weather!  This day, the weather was Gorgeous and we had such a great time!  Too bad it was freezing cold and windy the Saturday after Thanksgiving when we went with the Halls :( (Well, most of them..unfortunately we were never able to quite catch up with Jared and Lindsay even though we were all within 20 minutes from each other! lol)

Here are some pictures from the McGraw visit to the mountains (the Hall trip was too cold to pause for any pictures!! :( Next Year for sure we'll have better weather, right?!)

 We Love Swinging!!

 Rock Climber Extraordinaire!

 Boys Club!

 Cheese!!

 Nana and Poppy!

 Practicing a lil' stone skipping!

 Git on a bridge!!

 Umm, this is for babies!

Cutie Pie Boy!

Camera is MISSING!!

We are on the hunt for it.

Lots of cute Christmas pictures and stories..

Plus, I'd better find it before her birthday party this Sunday!! Can't believe our girl is 3.  We love her sooo much!!

A "Puzzle" Puzzle Solved...

So, for a while we've been looking for all, yes, all of the pieces to an old wooden sesame street puzzle from my childhood.  We have several of these fun puzzles courtesy of my mom and dad, and a lovely rack to keep them in courtesy of Josh's mom.

Josh and I have been "puzzled" over where one of the puzzles had gotten to..you see, we had the frame piece, but none of the puzzle pieces.  And considering I pick up the toys multiple times a day, combined with trying to keep the house fairly clean, it was odd that we hadn't seen One piece of the missing puzzle.

Sooo, today I'm doing laundry, and Liam is playing by the hallway vent, and I realize: hey, nothing is falling through into this room. So, I get my trusty phillips head out and ...

Unbelievable! Over 20 pieces..and he could have fit ALL of the puzzles in there if he'd had time.. What a funny boy.  :)