Man Hats

Junior is way too much of a man for party hats. OK the truth is that he was trying to put it on and he snapped himself with the elastic which left a long and thin welt down his chubby cheek. Maybe I can find a way for him to get injured wearing princess slippers...

Honey, Honey

I love these photos of Junior eating honey out of the jar. He wanted to spread honey on toast all by himself, but when it wasn't as easy as he hoped, he decided to just eat it right off of the knife. Yummy.

Sledding

Weather forcasts predicted snow all day on Christmas. This would make travel to my parent's house difficult, but like I said in my last post, we drove down in the afternoon without much trouble. When evening hit, so did the storm. We woke up to several inches. My dad was so excited to get out the sled and four wheeler to give the kids a ride.
Junior rode for a bit, but he is not into getting snowy, so when they got tipped, it was all over for him.

Pinkie and my sisters three monkeys enjoyed quite the ride. It was so fun to listen to them scream and laugh as my dad and HWMNBN took them in circles, and up over a little snow bank.

Pinkie looks like quite the princess with all of those boy cousins.

Christmas Magic

I really believe this was the most magical Christmas ever. Here are a few of the highlights:

Five must be the most magical age ever. Everything was so wonderful through Pinkie's eyes this year. Decorations, songs, lights, presents, anticipation. She was thrilled Chrismas morning with the art easel Santa left her. She said she always wanted one. How did Santa know? She drew on that thing for at least four hours straight.

Junior was fun because he copies everything Pinkie does. Between his birthday and Christmas he now owns almost every matchbox car from the movie Cars. Santa brought him a Big Loader which he remembered from his childhood. Maybe his favorite present of all was the M&M's. He loves those things.

I had a great Christmas too. My favorite gifts were the jewelry box HWNBN gave me. He had a co-worker pick one up for Pinkie and I while he was in Korea. They are beautiful. I also love the Christmas plate Pinkie made me at school. I remember making a similar plate for my mom when I was in preschool. I also love the Flip video camera my parents gave us. I am sure you will be seeing some video on this blog.

Christmas day we got to spend some great time at home just our little family. We tried to head to my parents house in the morning, but it was just to stormy. We ended up getting to leave about two o'clock, and enjoyed a pleasant, hardly snowy drive. I wish I could say the way home was as fun...

Christmas Eve

We spent Christmas Eve at my SIL's this year. I love this photo that capture's the general splendor of the evening. After a super yummy dinner, we did all of our gift exchanging with that side of the family.

Junior was all warmed up for present opening from his Birthday.

Pinkie got this great electric guitar from Gma and Gpa. She even headed to the top of the stairs so she could put on a concert for us all.