Can I go?

So as I was packing for Florida today I found a stow away in my suitcase!!!
She was pretty upset when I removed her from the suitcase but she seemed in good spirits when I left her at Mom and Dad's. Sorry Princess! So anyways..we're off. HAPPY NEW YEAR everybody!

Christmas Day

I am very proud to say that my children slept until 8am on Christmas morning. And what's even better than that...Emma came into our room and laid down with us before asking....yes I said "asking" to go downstairs to see if Santa came. :)
Emma was very happy to get the Camp Rock CD and 2 Camp Rock Barbies.

Princess enjoyed playing with her new toy!

It's a magic wand!!!!! ABRA CADABRA

Emma was extremely surprised to find a Wii under the tree!

Drew on the other hand had no clue what the Wii was!! :)

Here's Emma enjoying her Fashion Design portfolio.

And Drew loves this cool Space ship that Emma picked out for him.

Emma has been perfecting her Operation skills! Man is she serious!!!

And what's a great end to a great Christmas? Cuddling up in your brand new animal bedding!!

Tag You're It

Tag! You're it!
My friend Chrissy tagged me.
Picture Tag...
The object of picture tag is to...
1. Choose the 4th folder on your computer where you keep/store your pictures.
2. Select the 4th picture in the folder
3. Explain the picture
4. Tag 4 people to do the same
No cheating (cropping, editing, etc)
Here is mine....

Here she is my beautiful niece Sabrina. This picture was taken on July 13, 2008. We are at Uncle Wayne's for the annual Wilkin family summer gathering. If I recall correctly she is laughing because her Mommy just fell over in her lawn chair!! (That was picture #3 in my 4th folder) This was also just a couple of days before the kids and I took our 5 week trip to Florida! While we were gone, this precious girl started talking, walking, had a couple teeth come in, and got glasses...and I thought we had a busy summer. :)

So almost all of the bloggers that I know have already been tagged so that just leaves me with:

1. Trina...yes she has a blog or should I say she is trying to blog :) She's busy what can I say.

2. Claudia

3. If there is anybody else who visits me that blogs leave me your info :) And TAG YOU'RE IT

p.s. Chrissy you really have 8 years worth of pictures on your computer?! WOW

Dear Santa

We hope that you are having a wonderful night. Don't forget that our stockings have a "Letter to Santa" pocket.
This is Drew's stocking...he has a lot to say.

We baked you fresh cookies today!

Hope you like a lot of sprinkles!!!

Celebration

We had a wonderful Christmas Celebration at Mama and Papa's over the weekend. As usual everyone loves being together!!
We were very happy to have Aunt Nancy and Great Grandma drive up to join in our festivities!!

Meg loves her skateboard that Drew gave her!! I'm not too sure how excited Trina is though. :)

Emma really enjoys playing Wildlife Vet on this Polar Bear!

Drew and a guitar...need I say more!

And of course adorable Sabrina!

Emma's loves her new Pound Puppy (Missy) I'm sure as much as I loved mine when I was little!

We have loads of fun building different types of Floppy Jallopy! He has named all of our Jallopy creations "Norman".

The next day it was so cold!!! 3 degrees to be exact (not including the crazy wind chill) Poor little Princess went outside for about 3 minutes and the door froze shut!! Emma used the hairdryer to let her back in...but Princess did not wait patiently!

Christmas Lights

It was warm enough a couple of weeks ago to go to the zoo and enjoy the Christmas lights!
The reindeer were there and Emma is determined that this one must be Victor!!

Emma's Art Show

Miss Emma hosted her annual art show/sale for charity last week. The attendance and support was wonderful!!!
She raised enough money to purchase a brand new bike to take to the fire station for the Firefighters for Kids toy drive!

We are so proud of her!

From our family..

to yours..Merry Christmas!

Santa Claus

Dear Santa,
I can't complain!!! They really have been good!

This year from Santa, Emma has asked for a Camp Rock CD and Drew has asked for a "real" magic wand!

Oh, Christmas Tree

The kids have had a lot of fun getting ready for Christmas!
They helped pick a place for some of the family Christmas decorations!

Every year after we put all of the ornaments on the tree we go to the store and let the kids pick out a new ornament for the tree. I always get a chuckle from what they pick!! One year Emma picked a cow in a bikini!! Well this year, she pick a Camp Rock star and Drew picked an Ohio State snowman!

Sleep Over??

We tried to have a sleep over with Meg and Sabrina. Notice the word "tried" ? Meg became homesick (that's normal) and Sabrina became SICK (they tell me she felt fine before hand..and she didn't get sick anymore after they came and got her). We still had a lot of fun while they were here!!
The "big" kids wanted to pose next to the Christmas Tree.

And Sabrina chilled with Uncle Dennis and watched football!!

How could I forget!!

See this happy face~it's because his Mommy let him...
eat almost an entire can of Jellied Cranberry stuff!!

In between taking bites he would talk about how him and Papa Dennis would eat "this yummy stuff!"

P.S. He did eat other things too. This was just the second round of can shaped cranberries!