Merry Christmas!

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. Each year seems to be better and better. Hannah had a wonderful time this season and it was great to see her taking it all in. She is at a great age.

Below is a slideshow of our Christmas. We hope you enjoy.

Have a safe and happy New Year. We pray 2009 bring you lots of joy, love and peace.

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Messenger Christmas & The Land of the Inflatables

Last Saturday, we had a family outing. The grandparents (Nana, Mimi & Papa) and Great Grandma Rose all came with us to see The Messenger Christmas and The Land of the Inflatables. The Messenger Christmas has been around for 45 years and Jason & I both have memories of visiting it as a child. The most vivid memory is touching the North Pole. It's is fun to share the same experience with our own little girl.

We started the evening all attending Mass together. From there, we went to Bass Pro to eat. There was some entertainment while waiting for a table. Hannah "rode" a 4 wheeler, took a picture with Santa & Mrs. Claus & helped Daddy shoot a gun. Ater dinner was a delicious chocolate cookie ice cream dessert.

From there, we went to the Messenger Christmas and then onto the Land of the inflatables (as we call it). It is a house that has taken over a few of it's neighbors' yards to display over 600 Christmas themed inflatables.

We had a great time watching Hannah take it all in. She is really at a very fun age for Christmas. She is so exctied about everything.

Here is a slideshow of the evening.

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Away in a Manger

Since we didn't have our video camera at Hannah's school party, I decided to set the pictures of them performing to the song. Here is a slideshow of the kids singing and signing Away in a Manger.

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Hannah's School Christmas Party

We went to Hannah's School Christmas Party held after naptime. We walked in as they were preparing for their "skit" which we had no idea they were doing. Ms Monique & Ms Ada had a manger scene set up in the room. The kids were dressed as Angels and Shepherds. They then began singing "Away in a Manger" and doing some movements to the song. Of course I became very teary eyed (surprise surprise). Afterwards they ate snacks of cupcakes, cookies, brownies & juice. They then opened their presents of books & coloring books. Ms Ada read a couple of books to them and then we went home. We've attached more pictures of the day as well as one of her and Santa when he visited her school last week.

We hope you are all having a blessed Christmas season. It has really been fun with Hannah this year. All of the memories will forever live in our hearts.

Tomorrow we will take Hannah, along with her grandparents to see some lights around town. If we take pictures (I know that's funny) we'll post more.

Have a great weekend.


Me & Santa


"The Little Lord Jesus lay down His sweet head"


"I love thee Lord Jesus"


It's Snack Time!


Ms Ada is reading my new book to the class. It is titled "Heaven is Having You"


Picture with Ms. Ada


Picture with Ms. Monique

Fun in the Leaves

Jason decided to rake leaves today. It's funny how we DON'T have any trees in our yard, yet we had a yard full of leaves and branches after Gustav and now as our neighbors' tree sheds its leaves. Anyway, Hannah and Jason took the opportunity to have fun in the pile of leaves.


I'll help rake the leaves daddy


Soooo tempting



I'm going in



Who needs snow?

Santa's Special Visit

Hannah had a surprise visit from Santa last night. He came to her house and gave her two candy canes. He also reminded her that she MUST sleep in her bed all night for him to be able to visit again on Christmas Eve. (It didn't work. She was up a bunch last night) Anyway, she was so cute with Santa and decided to tell him completely different things she wanted for Christmas than what she had been saying... like a puppy dog. Santa told her he would bring her a puppy when she was old enough to take care of it. In addtion to that was a blue Minnie (because the other 14 Minnie Mouse animals she has isn't enough) and a pink baby.

Here are some pictures of her with Santa Claus.

Dancing Christmas Party

Hannah had her Christmas Party at dancing on Monday. They danced the first half and the second half ate snacks and played. It was cute. Here are some pictures of our little ballerina.


Here I am with my teachers, Miss Lauren and Mrs. Shannon


Skipping around...silly silly girl


Gotta love Pizza