Christmas 2010

Traditional Christmas morning stairs shot with a new addition ♥

Bijou opening her gift - which she destroyed in less than 10 minutes



Enjoying Dad's new gift (apple tv and netflix)

Potty Golf for Grampie
Poor dad with his hurt spasm-ing pre-surgery back...
Singing Christmas Carols with Sandra (our electrocutionist)
Christmas guests Chris & Noriko and the usual Grammie.
Christmas Scrabble
Playing with the Gideon girls.

Christmas Eve '10

Tree 2010

Sisters reading the story of Jesus' birth from the Bible.
Husband & Wife's first Christmas together.
Lando & Jo & Grampie - and sample paint colors in the background
Jo taking her turn reading
"Happy birthday to Jesus" with Jo's from scratch red velvet cake.
Gingerbread decorating extravaganza
Elle makes a "GingerDrew cookie"
Drew made a "GingerTyrone"
Deevs' "InjureBread Man"
Maslyn & Sons tech
Lando's winner of "most creative"
Gerald with Jo and her "Michael Jackson (and blanket)" cookie
Saying "goodnight"... the winners of "most classic" and "least frosting used" (I think???) - haha

Miscellaneous FUN (Fall 2010)

At church Deevs' & crew did their own version of OK Go's treadmill dance.

Miss M participated in Mustache Monday at school.

Dad & Lando broke out the motorcycles for the first time in a long time.
Deevs really enjoyed 15 minutes of fame in the NCL Fashion Show.

Christmas Tree '10

It was a Christmas Miracle; we had all 4 kids and their significant others and/or friends with us for some or all of getting the tree, setting it up, decorating it, and our traditional dinner of fettucine alfredo

Arriving at Home Depot to get our Christmas tree. It was about 85 degrees out. (I told Katie she got "mom points" for wearing a Christmas sweatshirt!

Maslyns (minus Sara)

A candid of Lando picking out our "surprise" tree

(we don't know what it looks like 'til we get home :)

Our "surprise" tree

Hanging out with Chad

SURPRISE!!! Its a pretty good tree!

Miss M hanging all the stockings by the chimney with care.

Getting ready to trim the tree with lights!

Deevs & Katie going through his Teddy Bear ornaments

J&S going through his Angel ornaments

Miss M laying our her Snowmen ornaments

Getting ready for dinner: Jade, Sar, Miss M, Jo, Kaleel, Lando

My heart is FULL!

Light it Up

Even with D's BRUTALLY bad back (post epidural with no relief), he and Lando hung lights today.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... Christmas is here!!!