Christmas in March???

Well, not exactly.  It's just that I'm finally getting to posting pics of Christmas now:)  Better late than never, right?  We started things off with church on Christmas Eve followed by dinner at Kelly and Donnie's.  Of course, I don't have any pics of our night at Kelly's...bummer.  But as always Kelly made a delicious dinner and dessert!  We even had fun playing Just Dance:)  Actually, we started things off by opening the gifts the kids got for each other.  They each drew names from a hat then decided what they wanted to buy.  They did a great job picking out things their brother/sister would really like to play with!

 Kassidy picked out a blue Zhu Zhu pet for Kaleb...he had one on his Christmas list!

 Karson got Kassidy a new Squinkies toy, with mommy's help:)

 Kassidy thought of this one all on her own...a Cars 2 bed for Karson!!!  He LOVES it!

 Here we are after Kelly's house...Karson fell asleep on the way home and isn't happy to be up!  We got a plate of cookies and milk ready quickly for Santa then up to bed.  We put the final ornament on our Jessie Tree in the morning, the star for Christ's birth.  It's always such a great reminder why we even celebrate this day:)

 Santa left their stockings overflowing and a special gift for each of them...just what they wanted, too:)

 This next pic just cracks me up!  Karson got bored of unwrapping gifts, so just sat in his new chair and watched Beth unwrap it all.  Then made her open them up so he could play:)

 Kassidy got this cute candy holder for me at her school holiday shop

 This Elmo from Grandma and Grandpa ROCKS!!!  No really, it sings and plays the drums!  Too cute!

 Kaleb and I enjoying our soft, warm Snuggies:)  They may look ridiculous but they keep you warm!

 Time to put Kaleb's new basketball hoop together.

 Singing to Kassidy's new karaoke machine.

 The boys both got these bounce back racers...extremely FUN!!!

 Although we couldn't be in Ohio with our family this Christmas, we were blessed to have Keith's sister come for a visit.  It was nice to be able to spend some quality time with her.  It's been hard to see her since we live far apart.  She was able to enjoy some special activities with the kids on their winter break.  We even got some girl time together, too:)  Thanks for coming Beth Ann!!!

 Before school started back up we took a trip to Charleston to visit my cousin and her family.  They have twin girls who are just ADORABLE!!!!!  All the kids played really well together, too:)

 My cousin Stephanie, Eva, and Kaleb

 Kassidy with Julia

 Both girls just love to wear these bows anywhere in their hair:)

 Julia is definitely more outgoing at the playground.

 While Evan swings Julia gets dirty in the sandbox!

 Airplane!

This is one crazy slide!!! 

 Kassidy gets both girls laughing when she plays peek a boo with them:)

 We had a great 2 days visiting.  The weather was even nice enough to go downtown, to the park and walk/stroll around, and play outside.  Thanks Eva and Julia for sharing your toys with us!!!

We hope everyone had as great a Christmas as we did:)  Thank you everyone for the gifts!  The kids especially had such a great time opening and playing with all their new toys and wearing their new clothes.   We hope we will be able to spend the holidays with more family next year!!!  We love you all!