Look!! It's FINALLY done! My family wall is finally complete. Remember when I first came up with the idea when we were in the old house, nearly two years ago? Then this spring my sister and I finally put up the vinyl "Families Are Forever" our friends cut for us for Christmas a year before? Well now we have nice frames and the pictures to fill them AND they are up on the wall. I am sooo excited!! All that I have left for this wall is two black shelves to go on either side of the family picture to put my Willow Tree figurines and the molds of Kaylie's hand and foot and we are DONE! I am also really, really excited we finally got a rack of hooks for the laundry room so we can hang up our coats and leave the front coat closet for guests!
Our new table and chairs set and ready for our company for Christmas Eve dinner. Unfortunately, there was a mix-up and they were only able to join us after dinner for a few gifts, a Christmas movie and book and some good chatting. We decided to buy this table and chairs with the giftcard Robert's work gave us because we were going to have five extra people for Christmas Eve and the week after New Years we are having Robert's cousin and her family stay with us for a few days. They are bringing seven extra people, so we felt it was worth the investment. While the table is not in use, it will be in my craft room downstairs.
Sammy and Amy on Christmas Eve in their new jammies (I made the pants for Sam) and with their gifts from Uncle Mitch and clan.
All ready for Christmas morning. If you look at the stockings, you will notice Robert's mom was able to get Amy's stocking done for this year - I was so excited to have them all!!
Sam with his big, huge tractor. Daddy spoils him like crazy! This thing is so big and heavy Sam can barely carry it :) I have to put this story in somewhere so we will always remember: we got Sam a Stomp Rocket. It is basically a hose hooked to a stand and you put the (hard) foam-tipped rocket on the stan and stomp on the pouch on the other end of the hose, making the rocket fly with air power. Of course it only took Robert milliseconds to figure out to hold the stand to make the rockets fly down the hall into the bathroom. This was working great until he decided it would be funny to start hitting mommy with the rockets (ok, so maybe I encouraged this a little to see Sam laugh) As is usual, it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Unfortunately it was my turn to get hurt. The rocket hit me directly in the eye. Poor Sam was so sad to see me hurt so bad, but I am ok and we are now supervising the stomp rocket very closely to make sure no one else gets hurt. Not so funny when it happened (it hurt like crazy - I didn't see it coming) but now we can all laugh about it!
Amy with some of her toys.
Sam got a monster bowling set. The bowling pins are monsters. We thought he would like this because he loved bowling when we went with Jake and Stacey a while back. And this is where I stopped taking pictures so we could just enjoy the morning.
The kiddos in their Christmas Sunday outfits. Amy got a new dress, Mommy got a new shirt and boots and Daddy and Sam got matching red ties. We enjoyed a nice relaxed morning with Cinnabon cinnamon rolls (I got the recipe from a friend) for breakfast. Went and enjoyed church and took a poinsettia to Kaylie's headstone. Then we just kinda chilled the rest of the day watching a few of our new movies and enjoying being together. We hope you all had a wonderful and memorable Christmas with your families as well.
Look!! It's FINALLY done! My family wall is finally complete. Remember when I first came up with the idea when we were in the old house, nearly two years ago? Then this spring my sister and I finally put up the vinyl "Families Are Forever" our friends cut for us for Christmas a year before? Well now we have nice frames and the pictures to fill them AND they are up on the wall. I am sooo excited!! All that I have left for this wall is two black shelves to go on either side of the family picture to put my Willow Tree figurines and the molds of Kaylie's hand and foot and we are DONE! I am also really, really excited we finally got a rack of hooks for the laundry room so we can hang up our coats and leave the front coat closet for guests!
Our new table and chairs set and ready for our company for Christmas Eve dinner. Unfortunately, there was a mix-up and they were only able to join us after dinner for a few gifts, a Christmas movie and book and some good chatting. We decided to buy this table and chairs with the giftcard Robert's work gave us because we were going to have five extra people for Christmas Eve and the week after New Years we are having Robert's cousin and her family stay with us for a few days. They are bringing seven extra people, so we felt it was worth the investment. While the table is not in use, it will be in my craft room downstairs.
Sammy and Amy on Christmas Eve in their new jammies (I made the pants for Sam) and with their gifts from Uncle Mitch and clan.
All ready for Christmas morning. If you look at the stockings, you will notice Robert's mom was able to get Amy's stocking done for this year - I was so excited to have them all!!
Sam with his big, huge tractor. Daddy spoils him like crazy! This thing is so big and heavy Sam can barely carry it :) I have to put this story in somewhere so we will always remember: we got Sam a Stomp Rocket. It is basically a hose hooked to a stand and you put the (hard) foam-tipped rocket on the stan and stomp on the pouch on the other end of the hose, making the rocket fly with air power. Of course it only took Robert milliseconds to figure out to hold the stand to make the rockets fly down the hall into the bathroom. This was working great until he decided it would be funny to start hitting mommy with the rockets (ok, so maybe I encouraged this a little to see Sam laugh) As is usual, it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Unfortunately it was my turn to get hurt. The rocket hit me directly in the eye. Poor Sam was so sad to see me hurt so bad, but I am ok and we are now supervising the stomp rocket very closely to make sure no one else gets hurt. Not so funny when it happened (it hurt like crazy - I didn't see it coming) but now we can all laugh about it!
Amy with some of her toys.
Sam got a monster bowling set. The bowling pins are monsters. We thought he would like this because he loved bowling when we went with Jake and Stacey a while back. And this is where I stopped taking pictures so we could just enjoy the morning.
The kiddos in their Christmas Sunday outfits. Amy got a new dress, Mommy got a new shirt and boots and Daddy and Sam got matching red ties. We enjoyed a nice relaxed morning with Cinnabon cinnamon rolls (I got the recipe from a friend) for breakfast. Went and enjoyed church and took a poinsettia to Kaylie's headstone. Then we just kinda chilled the rest of the day watching a few of our new movies and enjoying being together. We hope you all had a wonderful and memorable Christmas with your families as well.
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Looks like a fun, and successful Christmas. I'm glad there was no permanent damage to your eye!
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