It begins

Emily and I took a few pictures indoors today. I have my first appointment of the year tomorrow. I really enjoyed having the past month off! I'm writing a book so I got to work on that a lot and have really enjoyed the whole experience. Here are a few of the pictures we took an hour ago

Fun in the snow

Kids enjoying the first big snow storm of 2010:

Happy New Year, a little late

We had quite a snow a couple of days ago. The kids got to go out and have fun in it. Here are a few pictures:

Snow angels:

Nate hiding in the tree fort:
Kaylee be the tree fort:
lots of snow on the branches:
Emily the snow kitty eating snow flakes:
Not into making snow angels:

Christmas Part 2

Christmas Day:

Poor Nathan was so excited this year that he couldn't fall back to sleep after he got up at 4:30 in the morning. We finally gave up at 5:30 and let him play with the circus he got from Grandma the night before. Kaylee got up just before eight and Emily wasn't far behind her. Nana and Papa got to the house around eight and then we opened gifts. For lunch we made sandwiches out of Jimmy John's bread we had bought the day before, yum! The kids spent the day playing and then Nate, Emily and I all took an afternoon nap while daddy and Kaylee set up her new computer in her room. Jimmy's parents came over for Christmas Eve dinner which worked out wonderful. Everyone was rested and it wasn't rushed! We love spending time with Family!

Kids and stockings:

Kaylee got some new dvds:
Nate excited about his new Mario game:
Best gift of the day, Emily and her fur real kitty that moves and meow's, she loves this and plays with it all day every day:
Cozy family Christmas:

Twas the night before Christmas...

and all through Grandma's room, the family was singing, everyone on tune:

Kaylee and Nana singing:
Emily hopped up to help Grandma play Christmas songs:
Hm.. what's down there?
CJ and Rachel and baby Chloe:
The three Thompson kids:
Our big ol' family:
Kids with Nana and Papa:
Jimmy and I and the stick tree:

Christmas Eve at Grandmas!!

I love Christmas Eve at Grandma's. We eat roast beef sandwiches on homemade rolls, Grandma's potato salad and beans, mom made fruit salad, chips veggies and dip, tons of cookies and the best Christmas punch ever!! The kids open a couple gifts from Grandma and then we all head over to the Christmas Eve service. Then we went back to Grandmas for family bonding and Christmas Carols around the piano. We lucked out and had perfect driving weather, no ice or snow! The kids did very well considering all the traveling and the late night. Emily enjoyed dancing and kept asking Grandma to play frosty the snowman and then jingle bells. She even got up on the bench and helped Grandma play the piano!!

Christmas Part 1

This is the Kids Christmas Card picture for the year.

It says "Wishing you a Merry Kissmas"

I'm a little behind on posting again. The good news is I'm done with weddings, editing weddings, regular session and all editing all pictures for the year!!! Yay! I'm on Christmas break with my kids and husband (who also has the next two weeks off). We are looking forward to driving around and looking at lights, walking through St. Joe and viewing the snowman statues, baking Christmas cookies and of course spending time with family! Emily has been way into Christmas this year, she is loving singing Christmas songs (jingle bells and frosty the snowman) and watching Frosty the snowman every day (or I get in trouble). She'll grab my big Snowman stuffed animal and spin in a circle singing the song. Kaylee had her winter concert last night, it was really good! She is in an extra after school choir so they had their concert with the middle school choir. Nathan had his music concert back in Nov. They both did a great job. They're so excited to have winter break. We went to pick out our tree the day after Thanksgiving, it looks amazing sitting by the fireplace in the back room. All the kids did a great job decorating the tree, Emily liked helping this year.

Kaylee got her hair cut!! I let her choose how she wanted to have it cut as a early Christmas gift. She got 15 inches cut off her hair, it now falls just below her shoulders. It looks cute but it makes her look older, where did my little girl go? I have a bunch of pictures on facebook of the kids decorating the tree, Christmas tree farm, random Christmas pictures and Kaylee with her hair cut! Check them out! I'll be a good girl and post more Christmas blogs, Santa is watching ;-)

Trick or Treat 2009!

We had a cooler year for Halloween this year but we still had an awesome time. My mom came up and walked around with us. Emily was way into it this year. She would go up to the houses and say "trick or treat" and then "thank you". All the Grannies really liked her outfit and told her how adorable she was...heehee. Kaylee ended up looking scary! I told her she was too cute to look that scary and next year she has to be cute! Nate was Mario, he loved it! Anyhow, I know it's been a good month since I posted so I posted a few new blogs to try to catch up.

Knocking on the door:
Nate running back from the first house:
Kaylee running back:
Scary:
Jumping up:
Cute kitty
She wanted to wear her costume all day today too:
My three little trick or treaters:

Farm Birthday pictures

Emily's birthday party out at the farm

feeding goats:

my little pumpkin by the other pumpkins:
Giant pumpkin
Scary haunted school house:
Nana and the Grandkids:
mm apple cider:
Silly family picture:

Pictures from Emily's Birthday Party

I have slacked off on Emily's birthday pictures for awhile here. Oops.

Anyhow here they are. These are from her party at home;