Sunday, January 1, 2012

The rest of Christmas Day

After church and and a lovely afternoon nap had by all we headed over to Brynn and Richard's house to decorate gingerbread houses....the girls were so excited!

Getting everything ready....

Gabbie taste-tested the icing just a few times :)
Jocie's choice of decor' was balls of various sizes...


The daddy decided to come join the fun :)
Jocie did venture out on this one and add a peppermint :)
Gabbie used a plethora of candies on hers....
Jocie ran out of balls, so she had to go with hearts for the last couple of pieces....
Group effort to try to assemble Gabs house...
Tadaaaaaaa....
and after about 5 seconds....it came crashing down..... :)
Jocie's creations....
Group effort assembly again....
and...CRASH!
No worries though....Jocie wanted to eat it anyways :)
Giving "Mrs. Bwynn" a bite :)

Gabbie decided to just skip the cookie and go ahead and just eat the icing straight from the tub :)

Jocie decided that was a brilliant idea as well :)
After eating WAY too much icing, they wanted to play with the kitties before we left....bless those kitties' hearts :)

hilarious
They swear they are being "willy willy gentle"....
They LOVE them some kitties....


After we left the Fonti home, we headed of to Ms. Shrop's to see our fabulous friends, Ben and Katie, who were visiting for Christmas. On Christmas last year, Katie and I took this same picture on Christmas day....except we were in NEW ZEALAND and Katie wasn't preggo :) Congrats, friend!!! SO excited for you guys!!
Shane and Ben (aka...TWINS) showing off their enormo "we have eaten WAY too much during the Christmas holidays" tummies :)
and a normal pic :)
While we sat in the kitchen with Ben and Katie chattin' it up...the girls were in the TV room watching Katie's sisters and cousins dance it up on the Wii. They were entranced :)


Fabulous rest of a fabulous Christmas day!!!

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Our first Christmas at home...EVER!

This year we were actually AT OUR HOUSE on Christmas morning. That is the first time EVER that we have been home on Christmas. We were both really excited about starting this tradition with the girls this year. Shane was also excited (I'm not kidding...he really was for some weird reason:) about staying up really late on Christmas Eve and putting together the trampoline that we bought the girls for Christmas.....

Actually reading the directions before starting....hmmmmm....that's a first :)
STILL reading the directions.... :)
making progress....
more progress....
almost there....
Props to the daddy!! The girlies are gonna be SO pumped!
Christmas morning!!!
OK....FYI...The Gabster is her momma in the mornings and Jocie is her daddy in the mornings. Gabs wakes up and is ready to GO....Jocie, not so much....
While Jocie was still slowly coming alive...Gabbie was trying these cool little glasses on that made the Christmas lights look like big stars....
She was mesmerized.....
Time to light the last advent candle! Please note the girls faces....just a bit opposite :)
Daddy praying and thanking God for sending Jesus to live and die for us....
Singing happy birthday to Jesus....
They had to both take turns blowing out the candles....which almost resulted in a fight (shocking, I know :)



Stockings!! (or as the girls say..."their willy big socks")
Jocie FINALLY starting to wake up :)
Princess stickers!

Lipgloss!!
Gift time!
Gabbie being SO careful opening hers :)
and Jocie just tearing into hers....
Their "willy soft bear and piggie!"
A Melissa and Doug birthday cake set....they were SOOOO excited about singing happy birthday to Jesus again and blowing out his candles on his cake :)

Puzzles!!

Kitchen stuff!!
The daddy and girlies got me a new Francine Rivers book. YAY!! (Man, I look ROUGH!)
I got the daddy the most amazing gift ever...thanks to our friend JK for letting me know this actually existed....The MAN GROOMER!!! It's a shaver with a long extension arm on it so the daddy can shave his own back!! I no longer have to do it!!! FREEDOM for me!! (P.S....He used it and it worked awesome....so I def. recommend it to those who need regular "grooming" :)
The girlies got daddy a sweet picture and frame....
Drumroll please......trampoline reveal time!!
Yep....they loved it :)



After they burned off some energy jumping, they wanted daddy to help them cook some cupcakes.....

Some of their creations.....

I'm pretty sure Gabbie is going to own a cake/cupcake shop when she grows up :)
After cooking a ton of cakes and cupcakes, they decided they were ready for breakfast....Christmas morning breakfast menu: homemade wheat waffles, scrambled eggs, and turkey bacon....
Then off to church wearing their pretty dresses that MawMaw and PawPaw got them.....
What an incredible Christmas morning...at HOME!!