Finally Christmas 2011 pics

The highlight of Christmas 2011 was being able to be with Auntie Kari again. That was awesome. Collin loved her.

Again, you can see the love...

My brother brought his Rock Band to play. It was so fun. Liam is going to be a rockstar drummer someday.

He got so mad when we said he couldn't eat the drumsticks. Go figure.

The little kids table for Christmas Eve dinner was fun, despite Collin being the only boy.

Liam got to sit on this little attached booster to the bar. He was thinking... I AM SO COOL. Really....he loved this thing. And I actually got to eat somewhat in peace...

The elves came and we got to open fun presents.

Trucks....can't go wrong with trucks for Collin.

Painting and art is good for Sadee.

Liam, which is what I thought, liked playing with the wrapping paper best.

Yes, love that wrapping paper.

More just random pics

This fire engine truck from the elves...it made a lot of noise which was awesome for Liam, not for the rest of us :)

It was so fun to play with cousins.

Christmas Morning was also fun.

This is the fun book that Santa brought Liam.

Stockings are always one of my favorite parts of Christmas. Liam had fun opening his stocking with a LOT of help from Collin and Sadee and Ava.

Everyone takes turns, usually from youngest to oldest.

Santa brought Collin a tool workbench. He had lots of fun with it.

Liam especially liked to take parts off the tool bench and eat the parts. See a trend here?

Santa brought Liam a fun little wire toy that he likes to play with, especially if someone plays it with him.

Big trucks again

My sister-in-law Brianne MADE these nurse and doctor scrubs for Sadee and Ava. Big hit.

Family picture... of course, everyone's personalities showing through. Liam don't fence me in, and Collin, I just want to stare at you.

Supercape

Fun little noise maching for Liam.

Get a load of that hair!

Daddy helped Collin build this huge tower.

Sadee and Ava makign their fun frames.

Liam also got to go on his first swimming adventure at the Collette's pool.

Let's just say he LOVED it....way more than even Collin loves swimming, and that is saying something.

It was a wonderful Christmas!

Christmas Day 2010

These pictures are a little bit out of order in sequence of events, and granted, I didn't take near enough, but still wanted to do a post about Christmas. Sadee and her "tangled" hair in all its glory. Seriously, that hair is craziness waiting to happen. It made me happy I just have boys.

Ava was more my style. She got a remote control Strawberry Shortcake car. Collin got a little remote car too, so they had a HEY DAY zooming those cars around.

Stockings were/are always a big deal with me.

And every year, including this one, my dad/grandpa, always says Santa didn't come.... and then goes to get the stockings.

The funniest thing in the girls' stockings.

Collin hanging out with grandpa on the bed. We always have to open the stockings by a big bed.

Collin was most excited about this "treats". That's all he wanted Santa to bring him..."treats". Peanut butter M&Ms are his favorite.

Santa also brought him a race car track, which was very fun. And a couple of big trucks, also fun.

He got some other fun toys. Every time he went to open a gift, it was too funny. We would hear him yelling "ITS....ITS....ITS" and then silence once it was opened.

The thing that was the most fun, even though the wheels have issues, was this gift from my sister.... from a long afar ago time. It doesn't go super well, but Collin loves to sit on this little motorcycle. We had such a fun Christmas this year!

Decorating for Christmas 2010

We put up our Christmas decor the day after Thanksgiving. Collin LOVED decorating and all things Christmas this year, which made it even more fun.

My favorite new thing is the Fisher Price nativity scene his grandma got him. Baby Jesus has been lost, found and lost twice, and is now I think permanently lost. Luckily, Mary and Joseph have picke up the slack.

Collin loves to take them everywhere, they watch him eat, they watch him sleep, they do lots of things, and they talk. It's so fun to talk to him about Baby Jesus. Right after we say Baby Jesus, he usually says "baby brother in mommy's tummy" so it also helps us talk about the baby brother coming in about a month...

Yeah for Christmas!