So this will be perhaps, the longest post ever.... when you have children.... there are lots, and we mean LOTS of Christmas functions............. here is just a summary of our wonderful Christmas!!!!

We started the fun times off with Claire's party at school.  They had pajama day so please do think I sent her to school in her pj's :)

She was tearing up this red Christmas cookie.... and the funny thing is, I have a picture from when she was almost one doing the same thing... I'll try to find it .....what can I say, she loves icing :) and wonder where she gets that from.... hum?

Claire and Anslee....they are great friends and Anslee's big sister was in my first grade class the year I was preg/had Claire! Sweet girls! :)

Claire and Hayden, they have been together since they started First Methodist ......just growing up too fast!

Showing their toys.....trucks, babies and ponies......

After the school party, we spent the next day baking at home... first we made a gingerbread house.... it was SO much fun!  Claire also had to wear this special dress, sent by Maw.  She insisted on wearing it the entire day! Such a girly girl!

Next on the list..................Making cookies for Santa! 

The Next day was Christmas Eve, and we celebrated with everyone coming to our house this year!  MiMi and Daddy Daddy had their hands full! Noah and Clymer are exactly three months apart, to the day!

All that good food and guess what Claire Bear wanted to eat?  Take a look, yes, that's right...pink cheerios!

And a very special visitor made his way to Overhill Circle.............HoHo himself! Claire wasn't scared this year.. she LOVED him and was so excited to see that he brought presents!

Yup, pretty sure that's chocolate on her mouth........ and can you guess who is Santa???

It's Daddy Daddy of course! Clymer wasn't affected either way.... just happy and along for the ride! Next year may be a little different...we shall just wait and see!

Look at that grin :)

And then finally, the day we had all be waiting for CHRISTMAS DAY!!!!!!! I woke up early to make coffee and cinnamon rolls and Claire was only 5 minutes behind me... I heard her walk into the living room and say, "Hey Mommy?  There are presents under the tree."  She said it in a voice that was not to excited, just kinda like.....can I be excited? Are they for me?? And when I told her HO HO had brought them for her, she was VERY excited!!!

A doctor kit, which has been doctoring everyone since....

Fun books to read...........

Clymer liked the shot from doctor kit.  Hey, I guess this is one thing he knows about!

And this is where we had a complete melt down because we couldn't eat all of the chocolate candy inside the stocking....

This little man wasn't melting down though..........he was SO happy and in the best little mood the whole day! I'm sure Rob will get onto me about his very animated face here so please disregard it :)

Mommy trying to reassure Claire that everything will be ok, even if she can't eat all the chocolate for Breakfast.

Told ya he was in the best mood all day!

Claire didn't ask for that much for Christmas... she asked for candy (explains the meltdown), stickers a babydoll house and more candy.  Here she is with all her stickers......

Clymer loved his little radio that HO HO brought him on Christmas Eve.

After we had finished Christmas at our house, we went over to Rob's parents that afternoon for dinner.....check out how much Claire and Heather favor here!

MiMi and Daddy Daddy were very busy preparing dinner for our family... which just seems to keep multiplying!!

Noah's 1st Christmas

Pouty face because she was ready to open gifts

And when she did, she was magically transformed into a happy princess!!

Daddy Daddy trying out the new jacket

Anderson and Claire playing with his workbench....they really are beginning to play so well together! They went through the "that's mine!" phase but now, they are becoming such good little friends :)

The babies and their walker wagons..... these two are going to have many fun Christmas days together!

All the grandkids under the tree.......will we only have four next year or will there be more???? 

My two little babies under the tree

Clymer's 1st Christmas... check out those teeth! One of his top teeth broke through Christmas morning! 

After all of the excitement in Sylacauga, we headed South for Christmas with NaNa and Pops....Ho Ho left her babydoll house there.  Surprisingly, she never asked where it was on Christmas day... I guess with all of the other stuff going on, she forgot!

Ok, so there are no words to describe this toy............ you turn it on and it literally jumped and hopped everywhere! It also sang a very fast and crazy song... it was hilarious and Clymer loved it!  You may wonder why I'm talking about it in the past tense..... Claire threw it over the balcony in our house yesterday and it no longer hops or jumps.  Not sure why she got the idea to throw it over the balcony, but let's just hope this doesn't happen with any other things!

Later that day, we went down to Citronelle, where my grandparents live.  Here, we met cousin Ty for the first time...he is two weeks younger than Clymer.

Christopher and Alton... two of my cousins on my mom's side of the family.  So good to get to see them.  Christopher and his family live in Georgia and Alton in Mississippi. It was wonderful to get together like old times!  We laughed about how when we were little, we would go to our great grandparent's house in Meridian, MS and we would get Alton to tie us up, then turn to the weather channel (to look at the time in the top right of the screen) and then we would all take turns challenging one another to see who could get out the fastest!  I mean, do children even get that creative anymore?  That was SO fun and now that I think of it, did our parents even know what we were doing?  Such a fun memory!

Zac probably should win the award for best cousin..... he literally played with Claire the entire time, letting her jump, punch, push, pull.....anything you can imagine.  He is SO good with children and Claire loved every minute of it!

Clymer and Maw

Hey! I finally made it into a picture!!!  He was still, one happy baby!

Maw and Claire

All of the kids together.... Kate, Christopher, Ty, Eli, April, Trei, Clymer, Claire, Rob, Holly, Alton

The next day, we traveled to Mobile to visit my great aunt and her husband... Claire took right up with Aunt Al.

 And..... to finish off the break.... you guessed it...another deer for daddy! This is buck #3 for him.. .which if you didn't know...is the limit for bucks here in Alabama.  He was really proud because this is one that he had been tracking on one of those game cameras of his....this buck had been named "Dice." Yes, I have one of those husbands who collects pictures of deer from game cameras, puts them onto the computer, names them,  makes a folder for them and then tracks them.  Who knew that much could be done with hunting :)  It was a very nice deer I must say.... and we also got some cute pictures!

Happy New Year Ya'll!  Now to get ready for Claire's Birthday Party this week!