MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
We had a GREAT Christmas this year and hope that you all did as well! I have posted some pics just to show some of what we have been up to this Christmas season. The girls have enjoyed spending time together during Linley's break from school. Both girls LOVE to color :) Must take after Grandma Hamilton!
Linley also really likes to help cook so here is a pic of her helping me and Tyra (my future sis-in-law) make Christmas candy. I have to brag because I hear that making Divinity is very hard and tricky but we made three perfect batches on our first try.
This pic is a little odd but it is one of the games we played at our family Christmas Eve party. It was a really funny game. You put a hoola-hoop in the middle of the floor and then tie a string to a banana (we didn't have any bananas so we tied it to a thing of popcorn seeds) then tie the string around your waste and try to hit an orange into the hoola-hoop. We were all rolling around laughing super hard! I also must admit that the boys in this game had better aim than the women for some reason? Here is Raymond playing the game.
Briquelle, Bethany and Tyran
Linley and Addison playing a board game
Carissa, Chelsea holding Natalie and little Aiden
Natalie, Chelsea, and Grandma Jani (my mom) holding Aiden
Aunt Cathy
Brent and Brenda
Ha Ha this pic cracks me up! I need to use it as blackmail some day :) It is my dad playing the game I described earlier.
Hmmm.. This is pretty much what Natalie looks like after eating a lot of the time-especially if the food is squishy...She just loves to play with her food-what can I say?
It was crackers and cheese by the way..
Here is cute little Natalie wearing and holding the pajamas that she received on Christmas Eve.
Isn't Linley just beautiful! She is growing up way to fast-I can't believe how old she looks with her hair pulled up like this.
Me and Linley both in our pjs
Jake and the girls still showing off~
So this pic is from Christmas morning. The little can that you see on the counter has a live oyster inside it. We bought it for Linley when we went to Universal Studios this past November. We decided to save it for one of her Christmas gifts.
Jake had to open the Oyster and dig out the pearl that was hiding inside. We then had to rub it in salt and soak it in warm water and then dry it off.
The pearl that Linley got was a white one meaning she has=integrity! Ha it was funny because when she tried to read what it meant she thought it said incontinent! Jake and I had to laugh because since he is a nurse she probably heard him say that a few times and just didn't know what it meant. We had to explain to her the difference between the two :)
The pearl also came with a necklace that you just slide the pearl into-so here is Jake putting it around Linley's neck. Sorry the pics are so dark!
Here is Natalie's little stash of toys
and here is Linley's- of course Natalie is trying to play with Linley's stuff already :)
Hope you all got just as spoiled as we did!!!!!
