Monday, December 29, 2008

Christmas eve and morning...


On Christmas eve, Andrew's Mom and Dad and his sister and family got here in the afternoon. At about 10:30PM we headed out to go to Christmas eve service at our church. The service was very well done and Andrew sang a couple of songs. At about half-way through we lost Kyle and then Rebecca laid her head down about 15 minutes before service was done and fell asleep. Emily held on to the end and then went to bed after we got home. Santa Clause arrived shortly after. In the morning I was wakened too, "Mommy, Mommy come and see what Santa left..I saw 2 eyes in my stocking that looked like Wall-E, come and see Mommy!!!" That would be Kyle and then he woke up Rebecca and told everyone else that Santa had come!! Rebecca and Kyle were so incredibly excited, it was very cute!! Kyle had even gotten himself dressed in his Christmas sweater BEFORE he came out of his room!!! After stockings had been exhausted we moved downstairs to the presents!! They had alot of fun opening up the gifts and checking out each one! Rebecca, Kyle and Emily especially liked passing out the presents to everyone. Rebecca's favorite gift is her "American Girl" doll (knock-off) and her kitty and horse webkinz. Kyle has been enjoying his new castle with the knights and horses that go with it! They will be discovering their new toys for the next 2 months, I am sure!!!

Saturday, December 20, 2008

SNOW, SNOW and MORE SNOW!!



The first day of Christmas break started with a snow day!! We recieved about a foot of snow and the forecast predicts more to come on Sunday! Hooray..snow!! Rebecca and Kyle love the snow - here is a snowman we made and a picture next to our nativity!!




Mitchell Family Christmas pictures

Right before Thanksgiving we went and had our family pictures taken, enjoy...







Thanksgiving up north in East Jordan

It is hard to believe that Christmas is in 5 days! Rebecca and Kyle are very excited about Christmas and the waiting for Christmas eve is getting to be overwhelming! Thank goodness for advent calendars and for links they can cut off to know how many more nights they have to sleep before Chrismas! They each have picked out and wrapped their presents to each other, so it is taking every ounce of holding back to not tell what the other's present is!!!

Thought I would post some of our Thanksgiving pictures before Christmas pictures go up!!

We enjoyed a nice long weekend up north over Thanksgiving at Grandma up north's and Grandpa and Grandma Kelly. The Moreau cousins were also up at Grandma up north's so the 6 cousins enjoyed playing with each other and especially riding on Uncle Jerimy's snowmobile! They also love sledding down Grandma's hill and the near misses to sledding into the creek! I think the highlight was the 20 plus turkeys walking through Grandma's yard and the grandkids running into Grandma's room early in the morning to let her know that the turkeys are in the yard! (Even though she sees them every day!!) Unfortunately, I came down with an intestinal virus that left me nauseous and with no appetite. By Saturday, (sorry for the graphics) the virus decided to leave and diarrhea began!! However, I did manage to go to Walmart the day after Thanksgiving with Mom, Jaydee and Blake and Garrett. The boys were so funny - they thought because they were getting up that early and going that they would be loading in the gifts....not so much! But Grandma did make their day by letting them pick out 2 things at Kohl's and they found a $5 video game, which was the steal of the day!!

Unfortunately, the virus made it's way to Andrew and only mildly to Rebecca and Kyle and then Grandma reported that she was down for the count later in the week as well!!! A Thanksgiving to remember....I guess!!!

Enjoy the pics!!

Celebrating our Thanksgiving feast **The Moreau and Mitchell cousins


Cousin Garrett introduced Kyle to video games! **Grandpa and Grandma Kelly


Great Grandma Jake