Christmas Decorations

Well, some any way . . . The Santa door.
Toy Story gets the top of the tree.

The Cutest Little Shepard and Sheep

We made out trip to WA a couple of days earlier than we had planned,so we could watch our darling grandson's in their Christmas play. I must say these are the cutest Shepard's and sheep that I have ever seen!!! I don't know what happened to Michael but, he's there too!

Well worth getting there early for, don't ya think?!

Tiffany's First Christmas

This is my niece, Tiffany,22(?) years ago. I just loved the way this picture is taken.

Christmas 1980.

Grandma Welch and Grandma Ola spent most of the day arguing over who got to hold the new baby. They spent alot of time sitting next to each other so they could keep snagging Nicole! Not sure what year this is, but again it's Alice and Leola Anderson.
Here is Leola sitting upon Santa's lap. It is at my day care in 1978.

Santa Pictures

Some fun Santa pictures of Heather and Kevin. Not sure the year, but Kevin wasn't very old. It was taken at one of the Whatcom County Parent to Parent Christmas events. Always a good time.

My First Christmas

Here is my first Christmas! Not that I remember it of course, just the stories told from it. The doll with the pink blanket attached to it was from my grandma Welch. To this day I still have that doll. She's starting to wear thin in some places and her dress is fraying ~ I still have her and that's what matters to me.

First Christmas

Looky here! It's Trevor and Zach's first Christmas. This picture was taken at Yeager's Sporting Good's, were my mother, worked for many, many years and so did many other member's of the family!

How I remember this picture too. Martha had taken Zach back to Missouri for an early Christmas with her family. Little did we all know what the weather had in store for us after they left . . . fog. Now fog doesn't seem that bad, however, it closed the airport for days! They were diverting flights to Portland some had to land in other places far away, oh the stress that caused daddy Mike! We lived in Seattle area at the time so I was to pick her up from the airport, I think Mike was phoning me every half hour the day before she came home and the day of their arrival! Their plane did get to circle several times before a small patch of air cleared enough for them to land at Boeing Field, what a relief! Prays were answered that day.

The following weekend we took the boys in for their first Santa pictures!See Nicole and Heather eagerly waiting their turns?

More Christmas

One last present for Kevin. He loves these basketball games, so we decided to go ahead and get him one. He does love it! Poor Leroy, can't say the same for him. He's just not understanding why Kevin won't throw these balls for him.

Studying the shot.
Look at that form!!

OK Mark, Kevin is ready for you. He says you're going down. Come on Michael, Casey and Peyton, Uncle Kevin will spot you guys a couple points.

More Christmas

Once we got back home Kevin had a few more presents to open. Oh, look it's a WII Fit. Think we can get fit??

Oh boy it's more HSM.

The CD from Hairspray, I'm going to be practicing The Nicest Kids in Town day and night.

Toy Story Mania, it's like I've never left California Adventure!

WOW. I had a great Christmas.

Opening of the Stocking

We did Christmas morning in the hotel before heading home. Now Kevin had already gotten his main present from Santa (he came early) Disneyland, he just had his stocking remaining. So here are some of the pictures of that.

Now I warned Calvin before taking this picture, if he chose to stay in bed it would be blog about. Being a woman of my word here it is. He did like the fact that when Kevin woke up at 6 and wanted to do his stocking Calvin could just lay in bed and watch him!Kevin with his Toy Story Pez.

WOW! I can continue to smell good for the girls.

Disney's bad guys, including Gaston.

What's a Christmas Stocking without chocolate?

Merry Christmas

We have spent the last four days in southern CA. Kevin was very excited when we arrived home from dinner Sunday night to find that Santa had arrived early!! He loved that we were heading to Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm.

Enjoy the video's and I'll post more later today as we are home this afternoon. Merry Christmas.

Outside Decorating

Last week we put up some decorations outside. Kevin thought it was great putting ornaments on the trees outside. He knew exactly where each one was going to go. Kevin posing with his daddy (think he might need to shave?).
Here is a picture of Kevin with Toy Tory after the tree is finished.

Hope everyone else is done decorating!!

It's That Time of Year

Friday I started by assembling the tree. Saturday we got around to getting out and putting on the lights and a few ornaments. Today finally after the marathon we were able to finish decorating the tree. Here are a few shots of Kevin making sure the hanger is just right before hanging it up. This year he seemed to really take his time to find just the perfect place for each ornament.

Hannah Montana's ornament is his favorite this year. It sings the "Best of Both World's".

I thought I'd be a really fantastic wife this year and get Calvin what he's always wanted . . .

a Harley Davidson!

I thought it was a great idea. It would also show what a wonderful wife I was, listening to all my husbands wants and then purchasing one of them.

Here's Calvin asking Kevin how they are both going to ride the thing . . .

hmmm, I guess I didn't get quite the right one (maybe next year).

Here is my new ornament for the year. When I seen it I just had to have it. It sings "I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" performed by Gayla Peevey. I believe it's a song from the 40's and just really cute.

A Princess Christmas

While in Bellingham this past week, I asked Nicole if Isa and I could put up her princess tree. She said OK, off Isa and I went, decorating like crazy! After all it isn't very often you get a pink Christmas tree with princess ornament and pink lights, ya know. She had a very special place for each ornament.

A princess and her tree. I love the Santa pants. See the white "fur" at the bottom.

The perfect tree. As you can see decorated like every little one does it. Only put ornaments on the branches you can reach. There are not many the little munchkin can reach!

Bringing her daddy and Uncle Kevin in to have a peek at the beautiful tree.

Some Christmas Pictures

Well blogger is doing it's own thing today. Here are some Christmas morning shots, again blogger doing it's own thing as half of them won't show up.

Kevin doing his thing with his new Wii. He really go into it a enjoyed the bowling and M&M racing the most. He hasn't perfected it yet as there were alot of things to do today and he still hasn't checked them all out. Hope everyone had a great day!

Looky See

Yesterday we spent putting up the Christmas tree.

Calvin had to do all the high stuff b/c my foot isn't heeled all the way yet.Doesn't he look thrilled?


Once again Trevor is thrilled about getting his picture taken.

Kevin is very precise about how the ornaments should be hung!

I'm getting Trevor to smile even though he's trying very hard not too.