Sunday, December 19, 2010

Christmas Round #1

My parents came into town this week for an early Christmas before flying out on Saturday to visit my sister in Alabama for Christmas.  They will fly back on the 28th the day before Sean's birthday to celebrate and will stay through the New Year.  We enjoyed spending time with "Mema and Pepa" as Lilly has nicknamed them (Sean never used nicknames for them, but they LOVE that Lilly has made up names for them :)

We opened presents on Thursday evening, and the kids had a blast.  Be prepared for picture overload!

eager to start opening some presents!







Lilly & Pepa
Mema & Brilee



Handing out the gifts...

Lilly trying to take all of Sean's presents into her stack...

Sean reading Jon's name off his present

This is my stack, "Yiyi!" 

tearing into the gifts

socks!  (and he was happy!)

a dress!

Yeah! Lincoln Logs!   (or as Sean said, "Link Logs like they have at the YMCA!")





Brilee is always SO happy!

opening her gift



A hallmark 2010 ornament!

For the year she was born



Woody!!! 



She was SO HAPPY!

A girl and her cowboy...priceless

giving him hugs












On to the pictures off of my camera...


Sean before his Christmas program at preschool (yes, these should have gone in the other post last week, but I forgot!)








Ok--back to early Christmas with Mema & Pepa




She kept taking his hat on and off because he says, "Hey!  Where did my hat go?"  when it comes off then says, "Thank you, thank you!" when you put it back on. This has already gotten old, as you might imagine...




We can't let a year go by without giving dad mixed nuts!




The engineer at work :)








The barn that mommy built!


Brilee just hanging out with her love bug


More pictures to come of our time last night with Aunt Wanda & Uncle Bill (I have to get them off Jon's phone!)  But as a preview, Lilly wanted to share her strings of beads with them to wear! :)