On Christmas Morning

we get starbucks...
and Papa surfs the net on his iPad...

Lola facebooks...

Uncle Drew texts...

G-Pa reads the paper...

Mamma makes breakfast...

while I get to sleep in...Merry Christmas! Love, Graciana

On Christmas Eve...

The boys hang out in the kitchen...and talk about hunting and fishing :) The girls hang out in the living room...
And then we do white elephant gifts and we never know what we are in for :)

and then Santa comes to visit!

and he passes out presents...

the little kids are happy!

and we finish the night out with a Christmas Eve shot with Auntie Dee!

Santa 2010

We went and saw Santa...

It didn't turn out quite the way we had hoped but there's always next year!

Happy Holidays 2011!

From our House to Your's...Wishing you a wonderful Holiday Season!

Stairs

When I hear the word stairs I usually think of basketball and high school...now I think of Graciana! She has found the stairs and it is a riot to watch her climb up the stairs. She thinks it is funny...so everytime she takes a step she turns around to see who is looking and the lets our a a squeal! She discovered the stairs a few nights ago in the house. Cam was upstairs, G was playing on the floor downstairs and Pauline (we gained a teenager in the house for a week) and I were sitting on the couch. G crawled over the the bottom of the stairs and started making her way up.

She climbed up 6 set of stairs to the platform. Here she is about to start the 2nd set of stairs.
We can see the top of the stairs.

Almost there!

YEA...I made it to the top...she was pretty proud of herself (and she decided to climb the stairs 2 more times after this). So now we have a pillow and blanket blocking the steps...I guess it's time to buy a gate :)