The past two weeks.....

......have been very busy! Steve's parents came to visit for a week and during that time Jacob had his Christmas Band Concert. Then, the day after they left to go home, we went to their house in Texas to have Christmas with them and Steve's sister and family. We had lots of fun and went to the Tutankhamun exhibit. That was pretty cool! Lots of reading but good stuff! Then we left there on Tuesday before Christmas to get home in time for Jacob's orthodontist appt, then we had Christmas with my parents and my brother and his family at my parents house on Christmas! WHEW!!

Now on with the pictures.......

***Beware***LOTS of pictures coming up.......



Jacob looking handsome in his suit for the concert and the one below is w/ his band director. Just a side note here, Jacob made 2nd chair saxophone in honors band. (that's out of all of the local JR HIGH schools) So proud of him!!!! Way to go, Jacob!!!

Steve with his MOM.....

Steve with his DAD.......

Noah with Cousin Connor.........

Sweet Noah....his shirt says "KISS ME" 5 dollars for the first kiss and 2 dollars for each additional kiss....taxes may apply. If only we could really collect on that...we would be rich ! Who could resist that cutie pie!!!

The boys playing cars.......

Sweet boys!!

"MOM.......Seriously.......you can stop taking pictures now ....okay???....NO, Seriously"

A rare sweet moment with these two.....

Picture with Santa....or as Noah calls him "HO HO"

This is how you fit 8 people on a couch at the same time...

Nanny looks like she is saying "HELP!!"

Cowboy Noah...yeeeeeehawwww..

Howdy, pardner!!

Noah got this shopping buggy and Mickey Mouse from Santa.....

He didn't want to put Mickey down to open his other presents....notice the tears...

Smiley boys at **6 a.m.**

our roaring fire to open the presents by......

J and K got ripstiks and were really excited.......

And board games.....NO VIDEO GAMES THIS YEAR!!! Can't you just see all the excitement on their little faces.....

Noah loved his Wonder Pets with the flyboat.......

Dancing and singing.....Linny, Tuck and Ming Ming, too.....

Let me first explain that in most of the remaining pictures, Noah will be shirtless because I had dressed him in a long sleeved shirt and it was just tooooooo hot for that, so ......

Shirtless Noah opening his present from Granny and Paw Paw......

What is it??What is it???

"my very own vroom vroom"

"Bye! Love ya'll!"

Another present from Granny and PawPaw........to help Mommy....yay!!

Sweet little Addison, playing with her toys. (I didn't get a picture of her in her Christmas dress but she was precious in it.)

Kissing Cousins......So SWEET!!!

Now Addison trying to kiss (bite?) Suzy Q......

Not liking it too much when Suzy tries to kiss (bite?) back......"Save me Paw Paw!!!"

Tired little Noah Bear after a very long day.......But this sweetness soon turns into......

......THIS!!! Time for night night!!!

As you can see, we had a great time these past 2 weeks.

Steve goes back to work tomorrow.....The big boys and I have 1 more week until we return to school....And Noah will say bye bye to his NU-NU (pacifier) this week.....it should be interesting. I'll let ya'll know how that goes... Please PRAY!!!!! (he loves that thing!!)

:o)

Until Next Time........

(Oh yeah, I also have pics of Noah with Santa and Ms. Claus but I have to scan them so when I get to that I'll post them)