Thank You Santa!

What a wonderful Christmas we had!  We went to Christmas Eve mass, and Seamus and Grace sang in the children’s choir.

Then it was home for a delicious dinner, and gifts from Aunt Ashie and Aunt Chachi! 

We all sang “Happy Birthday” to Baby Jesus.

Liam zonked out, and Seamus and Grace put out milk and cookies for Santa.  We tracked Santa online to make sure we were all in bed on time!

He came!!!

After a very long, non-restful night with super excited children who could not stay asleep, it was finally time to dig into the tree.

Such awesome gifts!  Grace got a makeup set and cotton candy machine, Liam got trains and trucks, and it was a very Ninjago Christmas for Seamus!

Christmas morning jammie pic! (Notice Grace couldn’t wait to try out her makeup kit!)

Nanny and Poppy came for breakfast and even MORE gift opening.

After a nice long nap, we headed off for a relaxing afternoon at Uncle Charles and Aunt Sue’s.

Perfect day for lounging!

We had so much fun!  Now we’re off to celebrate again with the Camenga side of the family!  Can’t wait!

Merry Christmas

Love and joy come to you, and to you glad Christmas too,

And God bless you and send you a Happy New Year!

All our love to our wonderful friends and family!  Happy Holidays!

Holiday Happenings

We have been having so much fun this December!  Our Advent calendar has little pockets where we insert a fun Christmas activity for the kids to do each day, and they have been having a blast.  A recent activity was decorating gingerbread houses!

The beautiful creations!

We also recently attended our annual cookie exchange party with our friends from school.  This was our 8th cookie exchange!  Our first party began with just 4 tiny babies….

And we have grown to 10 fabulous friends!  Such a fun time!

The Sacred Heart School Christmas concert was another fun night!  Everyone got all dressed up and couldn’t wait to perform!

My crazy girl loves to pose!

Seamus lost a tooth (and swallowed it!) just before the show! 

This was my little goober’s last year of watching the performance…next year he’ll be singing in it!

One of the most wonderful Sacred Heart traditions…the living nativity.  A beautiful sight!

Looking forward to more holiday fun as Christmas approaches!

Christmas Photo Fail

This weekend while Devon was working, the kids and I thought it would be fun to take the annual Christmas card picture.  Well…”fun” wasn’t exactly the word I’d use to describe it!  I thought I’d post some of our outtakes for your entertainment and the future embarrassment of my children!

Oh Seamus…would you PLEASE open your eyes???

“Mom…help!”

Where’s Liam?

“Did you see what he just did, Mom???”

Uhhh….Liam…

These were immediately after I nearly fell off our coffee table…

Say cheese….Liam, what’s in your mouth??  Who gave him a gummy worm???

Ride the horsey!

“Mom…I still got a gummy worm!”

Getting crazy…

Aaaand we’re done!

So.  Out of 198 photos, I didn’t have one useable Christmas card photo (mainly due to that fact that Seamus’ eyes were closed in approximately 192 of them.) 

Luckily we headed out this morning and managed to get one decent shot!  A Christmas miracle!