Tiring Day!

People say that today was Boxing Day. I say that it is Tiring Day! This morning we went to the airport to say goodbye to a friend that is going to Forida for six months (Totally not fair!!!!!) and then went to the mall. We went from store to store, went to the food Court for lunch, and then went back to shopping! When we finally got home it was around 3. Mom went and took a nap, and us other kids went and realxed while watching a Christmas movie! Even now, I am almost ready for bed! Usually I am not ready for bed until 9:30 or 10:00!

Christmas Day!

Today we celebrated Christmas alone as a family. The only person that came over was Grandma. We had fun with her! I took some pictures of us opening gifts this morning!

Some of the gifts underneath the tree!

Mom is opening the Sarkle box. The Sparkle box is our gift ot Jesus. We write on small peices of paper what we have done for Jesus (for example when we went singing at Royal Gardens we put in a peice of paper that said "singing at Royal Gardens") we then open it on Christmas morning!

Zane digging out a paper from the Sparkle box!

One of my gifts!

New PJs!

Cassia like to put the flowers in her hair!

Who knew that your big brother would be camera shy?

Waiting impatiently to open his gift!

Our sweet garbage collector!

Daddy watching the fun with a cup of coffee!

Two brothers! Zane adores Seth so we got them both matchng sweatshirts but non-matching t-shirts!

Hunter wants to join the fun!

Michael is studying his new alarm clock!

Another gift!

A book for books I read!

Gloria looks happy with her new sketch book and pencils!

Zane got Beta fish food for a present! Now why in the world anyone enjoy Beta fish food for Christmas....unless....it had a Beta fish to go along with it! He was thrilled to peices to finally get his fish!

Christmas Eve at Grandma's!

We went to Grandma and Grandpa's house for dinner last night! We stuffed our selves with delicious ham, fruit salad, zuccheni bread, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, and more! It was all delicious!

Cutie pie, Zane!

Dad and Gloria!

The delicious fruit salad! MMMMMMM

MMMM! The zucchini bread!

Mom explaining something to little Zane!

                                                  Mom and Dad joked around with Grandpa!
                                               

Grandpa, Mom, and Dad laughing at something said!

Father and Son/The dads!

Listening to Grandma!

The younger parents! 

Are you seriously going to punch Dad, Mom?!

 

Waiting impaitently to open gifts!

Loving little brothers!

Silly brothers!

Sweet Gloria!

The gorgeous Christmas tree that Mike, Seth, and Grandma put up!

Ahh, the warm fire!

Gathereing in the living room!

Gloria looking into space

Our green haired Daddy!

Zane ripping open his gift!

Seth reading the name of his new toy!

Katrina studying her new microscope kit!

My new Perplexus! It is EXTREMELY perplexing!

Mom opening her gift!

Dad trying to open a gift and help Gloria with her gift!

Grandpa opening his gift!

The Hiton gazeebo!

Ice Storm

This past weekend, we had an ice storm! Large branches from trees came down, a tree was bent over the driveway, the yard had huge puddles of water in them, and much more! I took some pictures on Sunday morning just before church.

This is the tree right near our road. As I was taking the pictures, I could hear the ice crackling!

One of the puddles (or should I say 'part of the huge puddle') in our yard!

                           

Our apple trees!

The bent tree's leaves! They were so cool I just HAD to take a picture!

                           

The group of pine trees and their fallen branches!

       

The bent tree!

A large branch from the tree near the road!

The bent tree from a different view!

Mom's favorite tree covered in ice! It actually was really very pretty!