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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Christmas Morning!

Santa came! Cade and Carson said the reindeer - Rudolph and Bambi - nibbled the Oreos!
Their 3rd Christmas! What were we thinking coming in to wake them up at 6am?


Wake up! It's Christmas!
Carson is telling Cade he's ready to go see what Santa Claus brought!
Carson and Cade run in with Daddy coming after he read to us the Bible Story from Luke 2 (while the boys were still in bed, b/c we didn't think they'd pay attention the rest of the day)!
Checking out the fun new toys!
Carson and Cade pull down their Bass Pro boats from Santa!
Daddy helps to open them up!
I love seeing these little ones so excited!
Attaching the boat trailers to the trailer hitch!
What a cool workbench!
Both of them have tools in their hands to work on their boats!
Ready to play ball!
Already working on a project like Daddy!
Carson and Cade get to open this one together from Mommy and Daddy!
It's Whack-A-Mole like Austin has!
Carson and Cade are reading their new fire truck books!
Time to put on the new clothes - starting with these cool penguin underwear!
Mommy got to open some cool presents, too!
Cade helps Daddy open his new football helmet!
Carson likes that new Gamecock replica helmet, too! I have to add in that some Gamecock stickers came in the package from Jewelry Warehouse, and we gave them to the boys! Carson immediately took his "Beat Clemson" sticker off his shirt to put it on the orange part of the new workbench he just got from Santa! Then Cade's sticker got to cover over some orange, too! Kevin thought it was hilarious!

Cade found the new Elmo pajamas!
Carson found stickers in a new book!
Carson found ice cream cones in his stocking!
Cade demonstrates how he likes to eat ice cream!
Carson found Legos!
Cade found a toothbrush and big boy toothpaste!
Cade reaches all the way to the bottom!
Carson just had to copy him!
Carson is so proud of his new bathrobe! This is one of the first things he said he wanted back when I first asked them what they wanted for Christmas!
Cade was excited to get his, too!
Carson wanted to go right to the bathroom to hang his on his towel rack!
So, Cade had to copy him!
Cade opened a cool fire truck from Daddy!
What a mess of fun!
Notice the newest change of attire as they open their last present!
They were excited to put all their equipment into the Dr.s' bags!
My little doctors are checking my lungs (or kidneys down there?) while I make the Monkey Bread - I'm not encouraging them to be doctors - just to be whatever they want to be!
Cade shows off his new fun bouncer ball!
And Carson shows how to fall off his new fun bouncer ball!
It was a very Merry Christmas!
(more from the day to come)

Monday, December 28, 2009

Christmas Eve at Grandma Ree's!

We kept in line with all of our Christmas traditions and went to Grandma Ree's house (Kevin's Grandma) on Christmas Eve! Here's Kevin's cousin Dustin with his fiance Ashley holding Kayla's baby Chandler!

Here's part of the crowd celebrating!
Some of Grandma Ree's great-grands!
Some more of the big crowd!
All the food with Uncle Tiny, Great Grandma Ree and Aunt Poochie!
Cade opens his piano from Great Grandma Ree!
Carson opens his, too!
You cannot tell how excited he is about it here, b/c he really loves this keyboard!
Then my crazy husband called Austin, Ian and Chase over to open a box full of balled up papers and throw around the room - as if there wasn't enough going on - these boys loved it!
Our boys even got into it a little bit!
Chase makes a big throw as one is going right by his head, too!
Eli was so content to keep playing right in the middle of the floor!
And my boys made a spot to get down and play their new pianos among everyone's feet!
Here's some more of the crowd!
Playing with toys!
Oops - socks came off!
Someone said: "Let's try to get all the great-grands by the Christmas tree for a picture, so Carson, Austin and Ian went over close!
Then Kellan, Eli and Cade joined them!
But the others (14 total great-grandchildren, I think) didn't come and only Carson was really ready of these 6, so no great-grands picture!
Our family took advantage of passing the camera to Uncle Ricky for this group photo!
Aunt Poochie loves to tickle the twins!
At this point, the boys each had a cup of nilla wafers after going back and forth to the table to snatch more (I think Aunt Wanda filled the cups for them)! Uncle Tiny is pretending to be a musician! He eventually had to cut that thing in half so the boys could both copy him!
When we got home we prepared a bowl of goodies for Santa! Cade wanted to show it off!
Then Carson wanted to show it off for the camera!
Well, here it is ready for Santa on Christmas Eve! We had to add chocolate powder, because Santa must like chocolate milk!