Sunday, December 28, 2008

Merry Christmas!

We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas. We sure did. It was bitter sweet for me as this was the first year ( in 30 years I might add) that we spent it alone... just us. We usually go to Grandma and Grandpa's house for Christmas every year, but were trying to save pennies and thought we would spend Christmas at home. McKay really enjoyed seeing it snow and having a White Christmas. Carter was sad not to go to Cali this year, but once he saw his scooter and trampoline, he quickly got over it. Gabe, well, just loved the boxes and paper!

As I mentioned before, the boys got a trampoline. We decided not to set it up in the snow, so Philip came up with a brilliant upon brilliant idea to make a scaventure hunt for the boys to find it. We spelled out the word TRAMPOLINE and cut each letter individally. We then thought of different places in the house to hide each letter and left clues at each place leading them to the next clue. After collecting all the letters, they had to unscramble the word to find out what their present was. I think by the end of it all, McKay was so frusterated that he couldn't be excited for the actual present. Once the frustration wore off, he was thrilled! Now if only the snow would melt so they could play on it.....


Christmas morning



My Handsome Boys!!



This last one's for you, mom. I'm not sure anyone else will be excited to see it. It is of the boys opening up their present from you. Since you couldn't watch their faces as they opened your gift, I captured it all on tape! McKay even went out and shoveled the driveway and sidewalk so he could ride it! Thanks grandma and grandpa! Your the best grandparents a kid could wish for!!


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5 comments:

Marcy said...

Since you drug me out of bed to help you post a video, of course I had to wait and see what you posted. Ahhh, cute!

We missed you this Christmas as well (sniff, sniff) but am glad you got to have a beautiful white christmas with your fam! What a darling video. It made me cry, of course. I just love my dress Carrie, thanks so much. You know me so well---one of the best gifts I received! xo

Aaron just said he can't believe how cute Gabe is. In all his pics, he could be a baby model. Just thought I'd throw that in. I miss that little stinkerpot. His face just kills me!

Marcy said...

Okay, to clarify, I miss ALL my nephews of course, but particularly seeing Gabers in his feet pajamas makes me want to jump through my computer screen to squeeze him to death. lol

;)

Angela said...

Merry Christmas! It looks like you had fun even if you were apart from family. Too bad the snow's outside so they can't set up their present, but come spring and they'll be thrilled they got it for Christmas! The tramp at my parents' house has been worth the money for all the fun we got out of it!

The Hyer Family said...

Love the pictures...what darling kids! We had rain...that's as close as we get to a white Christmas...Lauren had to ride her new bike around the house!

Emily said...

WOOHOO!!!! Christmas!!! I have to agree with Marcy...Gabe is a model baby. :) That would give you a great reason to move back to Cali.