Friday, December 26, 2008

Merry Christmas



We wish you a Merry Christmas,
we wish you a Merry Christmas...

Wow, what a blessed family we are! The girls received everything that they wished for and much more, but even more important we are all healthy and happy
Rylee's first Christmas!


We think Rylee enjoyed her first Christmas. She tried to open a few of her presents, but she really enjoyed the ribbons and tissue paper.




Santa brought Alex the green camera that she was hoping for and here she is applying her make-up while enjoying her coffee in her new personalized travel mug.



Santa also brought Hannah her iPod that she has been asking for the past three years!

As always, Elmo enjoyed his gifts too!


Christmas Eve just was not the same this year. Now that Hannah and Alex are older, they are more interested in electrnics and nothing needed to be put together. I guess we'll get to start all of that fun stuff over again with Rylee! One more great reason to have such a big age gap between them.

Over the hills and through the woods to Nanny and Big John's we go...

After we opened all of our presents we went to spend time with Mommy's side of the family! It's always amazing to see how far the gifts reach out each year. There's hardly enough room for us to sit and we keep growing...

and growing...

and growing...

and growing. See what I mean!


It's always so much fun to sit around after the presents have all been opened and enjoy each others company while the cousins play with their new gadgets.


After a fun-filled day, we came home and were able to connect to Daddy's family via web cam. We were able to see the newest adition to the Starr family-baby Cooper. We are so thankful for technology!







Thursday, December 25, 2008

One more day!

Christmas Eve at Nana and Papa's

Christmas Eve was so much fun. The girls were spoiled by their aunts and uncles and of course by Nana and Papa. I think the high light of the evening was when Uncle Louis thought he would test Hannah's RipStick out which ended up in a crash landing.







Oh what fun it is to...
decorate gingerbread houses
Hannah and Alex worked together to build a gingerbread house. Isnt it beautiful!
















Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Sweet Christmas moments

Pictures with Santa

Rylee wasn't so sure about Santa. It helped to have her big sisters join her on Santa's lap. Hannah said the only reason she was sitting on Santa's lap this year was because it was Rylee's first Christmas. I wonder how I can get her to sit in his lap the next ten years ?!!!








We were taking pictures hoping for the perfect Christmas card pics.

These were the "runner-ups."
















Sunday, December 21, 2008

Decorating the tree


We let the girls decorate the tree this year and they did a great job!








Tis the season!

We went on our annual visit to Sperin's Tree Farm again. It's always fun to cut our own tree down!




We found a biggin'!

Daddy cut as Hannah waited to catch it...timber...

and Rylee helped!