Christmas No. 1 & Merry Christmas!

My most precious "men" and the giraffe, of course.
I am blessed beyond measure this Christmas morning.


Funny, Maddie is "shopping" in her own closet.
We were finally able to finish her room while
the kids were at Grammie's. Now all her
clothes are in her closet, and she was thrilled.
Merry Christmas Maddie!

She got this baby Princess dolly from Grammie.
Bad news: It's going back. It was very stinky, like
bad plastic smell, even gave me a headache. Be
advised anyone who maybe thinking of buying this.
Maddie says, "I can't have this dolly if it smells
yucky, so we will just have to find one that smells
nice and that's o.k. with me."

This is another bummer deal. She got this interactive
Disney nursery for her baby dolls and she was SO
excited; however, IT TOO has to go back! It was
cracked when we opened it! It looks adorable, but
is made cheaply and for the amount of money it costs,
we have decided not to keep it. She was very sad at
first, however, understands that she will get something
else. Daddy made her a wall mount thing for her babies
to keep her happy for the meantime. We will just
have to keep shopping. She LOVES her babies.


Our Music Man got an MP3 Player.
It is the coolest gift, he says. He says, "I will be
the coolest kid in my class now". He also got an
IPOD stuffed animal monkey that the MP3 player hooks
into and music comes out of the headphones that the
monkey is wearing. Totally BEN. We've been searching
for his favorite songs to download, such fun for this
techno-dummy for a mommy. Daddy helped, thankfully.


I just LOVED Maddie's expression from this
picture. She was so patient; yet so so excited.
Look at that face, seriously.

Every year, my mom gets my husband and
Ben a remote toy of some sort so the "boys" can
play. This year they got "blue" sport cars.
Oh boy. They were excited. Spending time
together...Merry Christmas.


Look at what my honee got for me. Yes, an
appliance! After 14 years of marriage, you
get appliances, so they say. I love this and
can't WAIT to use it and try new recipes.
It's a food processor. Food Network, watch
out, here I come to research! Saving time...
Merry Christmas!


The one member in our family who TRULY
knows how to relax....our dog, LUCY BELLE.
Not the most lady like view, but she's just
too cute.


Here's the packages that arrived from Germany!

We HAD to open them early.

Ben got the coolest Drum Machine EVER, he said.

Thank YOU Uncle J and Auntie R. We are loving

our Concerts, you BET!!


Maddie got the BEST dolly EVER. She got this

interactive Little Mommy doll. She wanted to name

it baby Emma, after her new baby cousin in Germany.

It's so cool. It's life like and can do lots of things.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

We are traveling this weekend to have Christmas No. 2

with the other side of the family. Lots of cousins and busy

fun times. Hopefully, some scrapbooking for me and my

sis in laws too.

Thanks to all my friends who sent Cards and Pictures of your families,.

I LOVE hearing from everyone again!! I miss you all.