Christmas morning

Isabelle not wanting to wake up. She likes to sleep late, sometimes until 10 a.m., so this was early for her. Once she realized what was going on, she woke up. Everyone had new PJ's for Christmas morning. I think this will be a tradition for us. We let them open them on Christmas eve so they could wear them to bed.

Andrew enjoying his new wheels!

Christmas Eve

We enjoyed a beautiful candlelight service at church, well, everyone but me. I ended up in the ladies room with Isabelle. She was doing good until Pastor got up to read some scripture & decided then to start making a lot of noise. So I took her out so she wouldn't disturb anyone. After the service we went to Mick & Lisa's house and enjoyed some delicious food. She made Cheese Tortillini soup, which was very good. When we got home we did our traditional gift exchange between the kids.

Andrew decided this year that Santa likes chocolate milk, so we left out cookies & choc. milk.

Christmas Parade Champion

Mason, being the Soap Box Derby Champion that he is, was in the Athens Christmas parade. As you can see he had a rough go of it, riding on the trailer and waving the whole way. He did complain about his wrist hurting that night. Actually, the kids & I didn't even get to go, it was very cold & rainy. Why would anyone have a Christmas parade at night in December??? That seems to be the norm around here. At least in the North they know parades should be during the day. They also throw candy up North, not so much here! What's a parade without candy?

Briana's new car

Today was a big day for Briana, she bought her first car. A white Saturn LS2 2000. I think she will be glad to have something besides Big Bertha to drive around in. I don't know why she wouldn't want to drive a mini van laoded with car seats! It was my secret weapon to keep the guys away.

Signing the papers, no turning back now.

Getting the keys!! I actually missed the moment & the guy was kind enough to do it over! Scrapbookers!!!

She was on her way to work & we didn't realize we would have to go to the Couny Clerks office to get the tags (license plate for you northerners). We had to hurry, then we didn't have a screwdriver to put the plates on with. She had to stick it in the front window. I'm not to sure how legal that was. Oh well, Ted will put them on when she gets home.

I'm sure the smile will fade some when she has to start making payments.
She had to stop & get gas, you know they never put much in them when they sell them. She couldn't get the tank door to open, the guy from the station came out and couldn't figure it out either. So he had to give her a refund. We found out all you have to do is unlock all the car doors and it unlocks the tank cover also. whoops! I think inside she is singing "I'm a big girl now!"

Christmas program

Andrew sang "God's Word is Like" and signed "Holy is the Lord" in the CHIMES Christmas program Tuesday evening. He was adorable, he even managed to give me a thumbs up in the middle of signing.