Christmas photos

Mabry playing with her brother's new keyboard from Grandpa and Grandma Bulger.

Gabe's Batman tent filled with his gifts from Santa. You can't see it, but it has bat ears.

mabry's loot from Santa Claus. She got a scooter, fur real puppy, a couple of pairs of slippers, and an alarm clock with Hello Kitty.

Yesterday, Mabry and I baked and decorated an ornament cake. Not the prettiest cake in the world, but still should be delicious.

We also baked and decorated gingerbread men for Santa.


The video below is Gabe rediscovering how much he loves the bouncy/rocking chair of his infancy.

Twas the night before Christmas

Mabry and Gabe are wearing these adorable shirts with their names monogramed on them. They are adorable and my mother wanted a picture with them wearing them. Gabe did not feel cooperative today though. I think this is the first time he didn't smile for a picture. Isn't Mabry's smile cute though?

This is the nativity set that I grew up with that belonged to my dad's mother. Mabry is completely fascinated just as I was as a child. I used to play with this set like they were Barbie dolls. You can see where my mother has glued the sheep legs back on from me being too rough with them. Luckily, I have a mantle seven feet up that children can't reach. Notice the wise men are missing. They are slowly beginning their journey to the baby Jesus since I decided to celebrate Epiphany this year.

Last year, Mom decided to give me some more of her ornaments. These are some of the examples of some handmade ornaments from my great-great aunts Ana Lois and Ola. I can't imagine the hours it took to hand bead these ornaments and I have so many. I left off their hand knit snowflakes and intend to use them next year when I put up a tree with all white lights and white and clear ornaments. I also am going to start the kids their own tree upstairs with all of their ornaments on them.

The tree fully decorated but without lights on. Gabe has been slowly removing the ornaments at his level while Mabry likes to relocate ornaments often.

coming soon!

Posting has been slow going around here since the computer decided to die a slow death. We finally have a new CPU and hope to be back in complete action shortly. I will update later. Today, we are actually closing on the Ashland house! Yea! No more paying two mortgages every month!

long time update

I'm not sure that I like sitting in this little chair.
Maybe I will like this chair.
Playing in my car that Nana and Papa gave to me.
Like my new haircut? Mama got tired of my pseudo-mullet do.



Daddy likes to use the force.