Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Christmas 2009

Christmas was so much fun this year!!! Grace had so much fun and she receive some really FUN stuff from Santa and of course her grandparents!!! This is going to be a really picture heavy post but as they say, a picture says a thousand words!!! We spend Christmas Eve with the Carters and here are the Carter cousins on Christmas Eve after the church service and before the present opening!!!
The girls - Grace (16 months) and Hannah (12 months) with their Grandad

Grace and her Mimi at the church for the Christmas Eve service - we decided to let Grace stay in the service with us - she lasted until the singing stopped and I then took her to the nursery to play with Hannah during the Lord's Supper.



Grace and her Papaw Mobley at the church service



Here is the best picture I could get of the 3 of us at Christmas - this was before the church service at our church, Central Baptist.

Guarding all her presents!!! We taught Grace and Connor how to play Santa and pass out the presents - they ended up gathering everything up for themselves!!!

The 3 Carter cousins all dressed in their Christmas best.


Chris with Grace and Connor - we always eat a wonderful Christmas Eve dinner around 4 p.m. and then after we eat, we get ready to go to the Christmas Eve service - this was taken while we were waiting to go to church.


Grace, Hannah and their great grandmother, Nanny Freeman.


Gracie pushing Hannah around the house - I post this picture to show what prompted me to take Grace for her first haircut shortly after viewing this picture!!!

At our house - helping Mommy sort the presents - Grace loved stacking the presents and then sitting on them - quite a few were a little smashed when they were opened!!!

Grace is wearing one of her Christmas t-shirts that her Aunt Jennifer made - they were so cute and it was so nice to have something Christmasy that wasn't from Target or Gymboree (the only kids places we have to shop around here)

Grace got a 4-wheeler from her Mimi and Papaw Mobley - it took some getting used to (it is power operated) but now she LOVES to ride it around their driveway!!!


of course, Paige got one too!!!

Papaw with Grace (16 months) and Paige (18 1/2 months)
Christmas with the Mobleys was two-fold this year - Jennifer and her family went to Tennessee on Christmas so we celebrated with them the weekend before and that is when the girls got their four wheelers.

I love the look on Grace's face here - I wanted a picture of the 2 of us and this was the best I could get her to cooperate for - she is just way too busy these days to pose for pictures!!!

This stone raccoon is in my parents back yard - and Grace is obsessed with it - she has to pet it every time we are there and will talk to it and loves to play over by it.


Merry Christmas from the 3 of us!!! - Right after we took this picture, Grace ran away and tried to jump in the pool!!!


This was Grace's other Christmas dress - we were getting ready to go to the Christmas concert at our church - they didn't have a nursery that night so we were not sure how that would play out but she did GREAT and only called out once during a song!!!


Grace and Paige in their camo chairs from last Christmas!!!
So many great memories this Christmas with family!!! We are so blessed and still have moments when we look at Grace and cannot believe she is our little baby girl!!! She is growing up so fast and I am really amazed everyday at all her new tricks!!!

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