Christmas at Grandma Karen's!

All of us kids...Tom, mom, Mike, Tooty, Joe and I 

Me and my Christmas baby!

Here we all are again!

My lovely family...Daddy, Mommy, Cam, Charlie and Sophie

My brother, Mike, and his kids, Brett and Natalie

My sister, Tooty, with Natalie and Brett

Aunt Tooty with Cameron and Charlie

Three generations of girls...me, Sophie and Grandma

Aunt Tooty and the Fox Kids

Aunt Tooty and Sophia

Cameron and Daddy playing Rock Band

Uncle Mike on drums, Cam singing and daddy on guitar!

Cam and Daddy jamming out!

Cameron loves to play the drums!

Brett on the drums with Cam and Natalie waiting their turn!

Brother Cam and Sophie

Brother Charlie and Sophie

Daddy and Charlie hooking up the "Wii"

Sophie with her new toys

All waiting to play the "Wii"

The girls...Grandma Karen, Tooty, me, Sophie and Aunt Millie

WE had a wonderful Christmas in Blair at Grandma Karen's house.  We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day there and all of the kids had a blast, as always when at Grandma's.  On Christmas Eve we opened presents and had a huge dinner with all of my siblings, my mom, my Aunt Millie and my Grandpa John.  Later that evening, my Aunt Mary, Uncle Rocky, cousin Katie and her boyfriend, Troy, came over to visit and celebrate the season, too.  Like usual, the kids got way too many presents but enjoyed opening them all and immediately played with them!  Cameron and Charlie got "Rock Band" for their "Wii" from Santa on Christmas Eve morning, so we brought that up to Grandma's so everyone could play.  It came with a drumset, guitar and microphone so you really can form your own Rock Band!  It is a lot of fun to play and luckily Cameron and Charlie really love it!  I can't believe another Christmas has came and went and the end of the year is almost here.  Wow, time goes fast, especially around the holidays.  We look forward to a relaxing New Year's Eve and a fantastic 2009!

Let the Christmas Festivities Begin!

Cam and Charlie with their new hot wheels city!

Mommy and her baby girl!

Charlie and Cam with their new Joba Chamberlain and Alex Gordon baseball plaque

Charlie and his car tool set

Cameron and his new Sports book

Charlie and his new "Rock on " Pajamas

Sophie and her new stacking cups

Cameron and his new "I Carly" CD

Charlie got "Pixos"

Sophie watching everyone open presents

We celebrated Christmas at our house early since we will be spending Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at my mom's.  Cameron and Charlie could hardly wait to start opening their presents.  We told them we would open them at night so they had the countdown going all day.  They first sorted their presents into piles and decided which ones they'd open first and put them in order.  They even did the same for Sophie!  After decorating cookies, we had them take their showers and get their pajamas on before dinner.  We then ate and afterwards they could dive into the gift opening!  Charlie was soooo excited he started opening his first one before any of us even sat down!  All of the kids got many great gifts and seem to really enjoy everything.  They will be playing with them for awhile until we make them go to bed to get ready for Santa!

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

Making Christmas Cookies!

Lots of fun with sprinkles and red hots!

Sophie hanging out in her swing watching us decorate!

I loved frosting the cookies and then Cam and Charlie decorated!

Charlie enjoyed the sprinkles the most!

Sophie still hanging out!

The boys getting ready to make cookies!

Charlie liked making the cookies with the cookie cutters even more than Cam did!

We started the Christmas week with our annual day of making Christmas cookies.  Cameron and Charlie liked the decorating part the most, of course.  They pretty much left the cookie cutting to daddy!  We tried a new sugar cookie recipe this year that called for almond extract which made the dough extra yummy!  We will definitely use that same recipe next year!  We made approximately 5 dozen cookies and delivered some to neighbors and will take the rest to my mom's tomorrow for Christmas.  As always, we had a blast making and decorating the cookies and can't wait to have Sophie really help us next year!

Look at our new toys!

Cameron and Charlie (with much help from Daddy) spent all day putting together their new legos and "Knex" toys. The Knex are similar to legos but just different shaped pieces. What they made were a roller coaster and ferris wheel that lights up! They are both really cool and the ferris wheel has little people that can ride it while the roller coaster makes sounds of the amusement park and people screaming while on the ride! They also made a helicopter with their new legos. The boys were able to do a lot of the work themselves, but they did need Daddy's help quite a bit since their were many instructions with many little pieces and parts. They were so excited with how they turned out and have been playing with them all day and night!

Christmas with the Fox Family!

Charlie and his new minature radio

Cameron is sooo happy it's Christmas!

Cam and Charlie with their new baseball pitching machine

The whole gang!

Grandma and Grandpa and their grandkids

Silly Daddy and his boys!

Daddy and Charlie waiting to open presents

Cameron and Charlie with their little princess

Cameron patiently waiting for presents!

Cousin Gavin with all the presents!


We celebrated Christmas early with my husband's family in Norfolk over the weekend.  Besides really super cold weather and lots of snow, we had a fabulous time!  The kids were sooo excited and got many wonderful presents.  Cameron and Charlie got legos, Knex, a baseball pitching machine, toy ATM machines, pajamas, games and books.  Sophia got lots of clothes and many girlie toys finally!  WE also got a zoo pass for our family for the new year, which we will deifinitely use a ton!  Even though it was one of the coldest weekends ever, the boys did bring their sleds and played in the snow for awhile, since there was over a foot of snow in Norfolk!  We rarely get that much snow here, so it was a real treat for the boys to have that much snow to play in for once!  As always, we ate too much, got way too many presents and way too little sleep!  Welcome to the week of Christmas festivities!