Christmas recap

We had a wonderful christmas holiday spent with family and friends. 2009 has been a wonderful year and we are very blessed! We spent our first Christmas eve and morning in our own home as a family this year. We got the chance to attend our church's Christmas eve service, something we had never been able to do.

We enjoyed dinner with our neighbors when we got home, then woke up in the morning to see what "Santa" had delivered! Once we opened our presents we got on the road (in less than ideal weather!) to drive to NJ to visit Marlon's family.

Alex, Kellan, and Carter

After visiting with Marlon's family, we finished off a busy christmas day by driving to my parents' house, where my brothers and families were. We got the kids into bed and ready for Christmas #3, opening gifts the following morning with all of the cousins!

It's getting more difficult each time to get pictures of 5 very active children all together--at least they made it all into one photo, although I'm not sure anyone got a good one with all of them smiling at the same time! I like this one of Mia--not sure what she's doing, but it just adds to the personality of the picture!

Jon, Renee, Renee's mom and I took our 4 kids into Philadelphia on the train (the first time any of the kids had ridden on a "fast" train) to see the light show at Macy's and the train display in the Market St. station. It was a fun time and the kids did really well-I'll post a few pictures from that separately.

The favorite gift this year--GEOTR*X!! My mom collected some trains and track from craigslist for Kellan and it was well worth it--our dining room floor is now a huge train track. Marlon had fun putting it together and everyone has enjoyed playing with it! We can't wait for cousin Nolan to come and test it out--after all, he is the train expert!

Here is Alex enjoying a bunch of her new gifts--headband from Aunt DeeDee and Uncle Josh, purse filled with lip gloss from "Santa", flash cards from Aunt DeeDee, and UGG boots from Nana and PopPop!