Post Christmas Photos

After Christmas was over, it was the real picture time. We took some with Tyler with the teddy bear. I tried to hide my hand because he is not able to sit up by himself yet.




Here is Tyler's Christmas loot. I think he looks pleased.


Here is Kate's loot. The doll she has says the name of the body part when you put the hand over that part. It says it in spanish too. She got a few videos and games.


Later that day we went to take the annual family picture.




My dad has taken several photos and made sure everyone looked good in all of them. There were 100 - 150 pictures and it seems none were good. How did people take any good pictures with film?


Here is our own family. I think that I have the best looking family. I married well, huh?


Here is a picture of Josh and Hayley. Is it me or is she glowing?

Here Comes Santa Clause

Katelynn was so excited for Santa to come we had to convince her that she really needed to go to sleep the night before. When she woke up she said that Santa didn't come because she didn't hear him. We said we should go see if he left any presents.

And he did bring some presents. The biggest was a doll house. Kate loves it.


If fact, the plan was to go from the Santa present to my parents to open presents there. Kate wanted to play with her present and didn't want to leave. So we comprimised and brought the doll house to my parents.


At my parents, we got all the cousins together for a picture. We had a great day.

Christmas Eve

This first picture is before Christmas Eve but it was only one picture that didn't need a post so it was adopted by this post. Jen made sugar cookies with her sister Nichole and the kids helped. Here Kate is helping making the cookies. 


So to Christmas Eve, here are all the sitting cousins. Tyler was probably asleep.


Here is the Williams.


And our own alone time.


We had to have two Marys because both wanted to be the Mary. Ethan was Joseph and a doll was baby Jesus. Dan was the donkey.


We gave Anna this apron that matches one Jen made for Kate. The Williams gave Kate an ice/heat pack called Mr. Bump.


We had a great Christmas Eve. The Barnes family did something new this year and each person was asked to memorize something to share with everyone as a kind of present to everyone. The thought was inspired by a talk by Susan Tanner. Unfortunately, Diane asked us if we wanted to do it a long time ago and we didn't decide to do it until a couple days before Christmas Eve so we didn't have a chance to memorize anything very long. Hopefully we will to better this next year.