Christmas 2011

I feel so bad for not posting more Christmas pictures...it's because I didn't take many Christmas pictures! The season was wonderful and memorable, I just didn't capture digitally as I would have liked to. However, here are the pictures we did get and hopefully they'll spur memories for years to come.

We had Luke's preschool Christmas program. He did much better singing this year, and even added a little choeography, when there wasn't any. It made him much easier to pick out of the crowd. He's the one with his hands raised.

"Put your hands in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care!"

We kept putting off visiting Santa and then when we tried at Santa's Village it was over a 90 minute wait. No thanks! We ended up visiting him right by our house at Watters Creek. We walked in, said hi, took pictures with our own camera and walked out with our candy canes. It was the easiest Santa visit ever! And the kiddos loved getting to see his "reindeer" mobile that he uses while the reindeer are resting up.

Sweets

Was so happy to tell Santa he wanted a Batman castle, a football helmet and submarine for Christmas.

Reid not so much a Santa fan. :) (Mom annoyed she's sitting on some old guys lap).

We went to the Soup Mobile's "Celebrate Jesus" party at the Hyatt downtown and helped welcome our homeless friends to their hotel for the night. It was a good night for them to be inside, because it was coooold and wet! Luke had a great time high-fiving all the dudes and it was a great experience for him letting him know how we were trying to help others less fortunate.

We went to a beautiful Christmas Eve service at church. It was my favorite so far. The music was wonderful and the message perfect. It's always my favorite part of Christmas. Afterwards, we all went home to read "Twas the Night Before Christmas" and play games. Miss Martha and Mr. Jim came over, which we loved getting to share the evening with them.

Batman undies to open wished for Batman castle!

So many presents (see Batman costume that was promptly put on to play with the new castle).

Christmas was a blur of presents and excited kiddos and lots of family and food! Good times were had, but we can truly say it's a good thing Christmas only comes once a year, because it took us two weeks to recover! Bring on the new year!