Friday, January 1, 2010

Christmas and the like...

We had a wonderful Christmas and a great New Year!
All of the running around has left us pretty tired!
This is my taste tester's permanent seat in the kitchen.
When we had the snow, we got to play in it all morning long. Daddy and Daphne loved throwing snow on each other.
Daphne and Bryson playing in the snow.
Bryson jumping into other people's shoe prints.
Daphne standing in daddy's footprint
we love the snow

On Christmas Eve, Daphne loved all of her toys. He loved everyone else's even more, especially Cole's trucks! I think we have a tom boy in the making :)

All the little kids playing with their new toys.

Daphne getting a hug from uncle Brendan.
Daphne and cousin Brooks playing together. Now, look closely, Daphne has pushed herself in between Brooks and mommy. It's gonna be fun when she gets a little brother or sister! Can we say JEALOUS?
SANTA CAME TO OUR HOUSE!!!
Santa brought Daphne a kitchen set. We are getting very good at making imaginary yumminess!

Daddy helping Daphne open presents EARLY in the morning.

Daphne is patiently waiting on daddy to OPEN THE BLOCKS!

Look at my new animals!
:)

hmm, what did Santa leave me in my stocking?
he brought a...CANDY CANE!
MEANWHILE...
Where's my present???? I can smell it!
We went to mom and dad's house to open presents...
and mini Santa was there finding more stuff to rip open!

Look at my new boots! I am a shoe fanatic :)

Daddy, look at my new barbie.
Daddy got a new toy too! Gotta love that face :)
This makes a fun sound!
ooh! I love games.

More boots!

Mimi and Paw got me a jeep! Although we were a little nervous about it at first, we have now become very happy and excited about it!



Mimi turned 53 on the 26th! Yes, dad put all 53 candles on there too (or at least as many as he could fit on the cake)
After we went to mamaw and pop pop's for family time with the Godfreys, we came back to the house to bring lots of toys.
Uncle Brendan and Daphne playing with her new drum set from Uncle Brian and Aunt Lauren.

dad still playing with his new toy.

Coloring on our new singing drawing board.

Making sweet, sweet music

yes, they have stolen Daphne's new Cootie game, and are playing it at the table. And, yes, dad has the Barbie sunglasses on his nose. He is wearing them because he doesn't like getting beaten in a game, even if it is Cootie.

We laughed because Shannon won!

Daphne loves Cooties!

On Monday, dad brought over the jeep, so Bryson and Daphne took it out for a spin.

The jeep has a working radio!


And they rode off into the sun...
Mommy was chasing them when they went off roading, so a little more of this, and mommy will lose quite a bit of weight :) yippie for that!
Aunt Leesa got a zhu zhu hamster for Daphne for Christmas. Daphne loved it...Mac and Oreo went crazy!!!

It goes all over the place! Now, it is a light shade of pink. She couldn't decide if she wanted to eat a candy cane or play with the hamster, so she did both!

Sloppy joes are yummy :)

mmmm...mmmm.....good!