Christmas across the state!

We started off our Christmas festivities on the 24th at Anne's house here in Knoxville. We had Christmas dinner, watched Mark and Melissa's episode of DIY to the Rescue, and then opened tons of great gifts. We had a great time Nana, Yia-Yia, and Mark!
Then it was off to West Tennessee for Christmas Eve dinner, we got there just in time to make cookies for Santa before sitting down to eat a huge and delicious not so traditional dinner of brisket, sea food gumbo, and tons of other yummy goodies.We had our first annual fireworks show (great idea Uncle Bob and Cousin Susan)! Finally it was time for gifts. Again, the boys got tons of wonderful goodies, Thanks Doc, Mom-mom, Pooty, Nanny Goat, Sandra, Jake, Bob, Brenda, Stacey, Stephanie, Nick, and Susan!Then we set out our Santa cookies and milk and headed off to bed. The boys woke up early, as expected, and anxiously waited in their new matching pj's to go downstairs and see what Santa had brought.
After playing with all our new toys for a bit, it was time for breakfast and more gifts under the tree. Thanks G-Pop, G-Nana, G-Dada, Mimi, Randy, Sarena, Rae-Rae, Russ, and Susan for all the great gifts! Finally it was time to sit back and relax, play some trivial pursuit, eat some more of course, and play with all our new toys! I see tons more days like this one in our future!

Pre Christmas Festivities

I wanted to post a few highlights from our pre Christmas festivities before the holiday fun begins and we forget about these.

We went to a Christmas party the other night and had a blast. Santa made an appearance and handed out gifts for the kids. Andrew took his gift from Santa with a big smile of course and was even captured with his hand on Santa's hand!!!!!
We also got a few pictures of the boys with a large dancing Santa statue and a decent family shot.
Then we headed to Nana's house the other night for pizza and gingerbread house making time!!! Andrew did a great job, loved every second of it, and of course had more than his fair share of sugar!!! Happy Holidays from Santa's little helper and rudolph's protege!!!!

Look Santa, NO TEARS!!!!

We actually got our picture taken with Santa without any tears this year. It took some serious convincing and a little bit of pulling, but we finally got Andrew to agree to stand next to Santa (forget the lap), but only so he could be in a quick picture with his brother. Davis was intrigued by the beard and could care less who was holding him. Andrew on the other hand had to be moved a bit closer so they could even get him in the picture at all. This version is certainly not the best picture ever since I just took a quick picture of our picture to use for the blog, but you get the idea. We are going to cherish this one for a while because I am sure the next few years will include a some tears from Davis and Andrew if he hasn't fully gotten over his fear of Santa.