Our Christmas

Welllll....it was an interesting Christmas. We all got the flu bug going around. Poor Jim came down with it on Christmas Eve. Then on Christmas morning Aidan had it. It was so sad to see him mustering up all he had to open the presents that he was so excited for the day before.

Here the kids are on Christmas Eve. We open presents from Jim and I, and from their Grandma and Grandpa Hosking. They had so much fun opening their presents! Oh, I know these snaps are not great at all. I just wanted to capture the day, so I used the on camera flash and just shot.

Addie LOVES clothes! It took a while to get her to open more presents because she was so excited over her cute new outfits!


Aidan helped her open her doll. I think he really dug it. This may be blackmail when he's a teenager.


Aidan liked his clothes too! I don't think he was really that excited, but he gave me a smile anyway!
I know for a fact he was excited to get this one. :o)
On Christmas Morning, my poor Aidan felt soooo bad. Look at my poor guy. This kid LOVES toys, he goes crazy for them. It was hard seeing him like this.


At least Addie had some fun.
She showing off her super cute new purse. What a big girl!Then we went to his other grandparents house. Aidan was feeling a bit better by this time. He's opening presents with Grandma's crazy dog, Gretchen.Addie just looked cute and that's all I can say. She's the cutest little girl there is!She LOVED her new trike! This thing is pretty cool. I can't wait to take her out in it!Then a bit later her cousin, Elliot came by. I love this. They are finally starting to interact a bit more!

OK, that's all I'll share. Of course, I have tons more, but this is more than enough! Ha ha!

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree....

Last night I realized that I haven't taken any pics of our tree this year. Our poor tree is decorated a little top heavy this year since Miss Addie thinks ornaments make great toys. I decided to play around with lighting a bit and put this together.

Cristmas progam

Aidan had his first Christmas program for school today. It was just too cute! Preschoolers are just too funny! Aidan of course was his typical goofy self. He participated some, but he was mostly being a bit silly. Of course, I have photographic proof!

Just disclaimer. These are photographically bad! It was dark in the church, so I had to shoot at a very high ISO.

Here's my boy. As you can see, he was highly enthused to perform on stage.

Just because his look is so priceless, here's a zoom. Like I said quality is bad! I also love the expression of his buddy, Ayden.

Aidan and his buddy, Ayden were fooling around and being silly. I wish I was able to capture that on the camera because they were pretty funny. He's definitely his father's son!

This one is just priceless to me. I don't know what was going on, but this is my interpretation....

The kids are all singing a song in the pews. Aidan looks like he's about to whack his friend on the head, but gets stopped by Mrs D. He looks like he might be in some trouble! LOL!

It's been a long time!

Wow, I haven't posted in almost a month! I have two reasons for that. The first is that we've been pretty busy. Obviously, we've had Thanksgiving, but we've also had Aidan's fourth birthday! I can't believe my little boy is four! He's been looking forward to his birthday ever since Addie's turned one. That's been six months! He was so excited to have a birthday party at Chuck E Cheese. I have pictures that I'll share at a later date. If that weren't enough excitement, we've also been house hunting. Those that know us, know how badly we've wanted to purchase a home of our own. It's been one of those things we never thought would happen. On a whim, we went to a open house for a home we've been eyeing. I instantly fell in love. Even better was the fact that the dream of owning wasn't as far off as we had thought. So, we've spent the last few weeks looking at homes. Most of them were awesome homes, but we just couldn't get over the first one we saw. It just suits us so much. So, this weekend we put a offer on it! After a little bit of back and fourth, we came to an agreement. I'm actually a little nervous posting about it here because we still are going through the oh so fun process of getting our mortgage together. I just don't want to jinx us! So, hopefully friends and family can keep your fingers crossed and send us positive thoughts!

The second reason I haven't been posting as much is because my beloved camera is giving me a bit of trouble. I have a couple problems. One of them is that I have a couple pictures from Aidan's B-day trapped in camera without a way to come out to share on my computer. I hopefully have that problem solved for now. There are still a couple issues that remain. Hopefully after all this home excitement and the Holidays pass, I can take it in for servicing! I just hope that it doesn't cost so much to fix that I need to find the money to buy a new camera. I would be so sad without it!