Christmas 2009

We had a wonderful Christmas this year and are very blessed! We spent Christmas Eve with Eric's family as always. We ate & drank wine and had a great time watching the kids run around, do scavenger hunts & play games. On Christmas morning we woke up to find some great gifts from Santa! Reagan got an American Girl Doll that "looks" like her and a ballerina clothing set for her to wear. Bailey got a tricycle and a Minnie Mouse doll. Eric got a tennis raquet bag that holds 3 raquets. And I got some new items from the St Nicholas Christmas village selection. And of course we all had wonderful things in our stockings! We then opened up our family gifts. Reagan got to choose to either be the first to open a gift or give a gift to someone to open and she chose to give me a gift to open! Such a sweetheart! The big family gift (well I say it's more for Eric) is Band Hero for Xbox. So the kids got to play with that before we got ready to head to Mama & Papa D's to eat lunch & celebrate Christmas there. We had a wonderful lunch that Mama prepared! Then we got busy opening gifts and everyone got wonderful gifts. Then on Saturday we went down to Ganny's to visit with them and exchange gifts there. It was a nice visit with Ganny, Aunt Rachel, Susan & Jon. We missed seeing everyone else.

The girls are having a great time playing with all their new toys! I am all set with some new running stuff to wear during this cold winter!

I just posted some pictures to the web album instead of trying to post them here. So here is the link! Enjoy! I actually still have to add some pictures from Christmas night and then our visit with Ganny!

http://picasaweb.google.com/dgakstatter/Christmas2009?feat=directlink

Holiday Lights at Lake Lanier

The bridge after you pay to come in to see the lights
Sponge Bob

Nativity Scene

The girls being silly

Santa

The girls getting ready to ride the train

The girls having fun on another ride

Reagan on the merry go round

Bailey won't ride a horse, she has to sit on a bench

Bailey did not want to ride in the same boat with Bailey

Reagan loved it

Bailey had a blast on this ride

Bailey was so excited to be riding the rides with Reagan

The Merry Go Round lights

St Nick Day & family celebration

Well, I'm a little late with posting these since the pictures are from our family celebration on the 5th and then St Nick Day. We had everyone over on Sat the 5th for brunch. The kids had a great time and we ate lots of great food and had wonderful Mimosa's! We were lucky to be able to have the family celebration the day before James left to head back to Korea so he was able to make it.

I only have pictures of Bailey from St Nick Day since Reagan spent the night with Emma. Bailey was a sweet sister and put Reagan's shoes out for St Nick to be able to leave her gift in them.

I have a lot of pics of this crew but this was one of the best ones I got
Thought this picture was cute since it kind of represents each ones personality

What cuties!

Opening up their goodies from Dorothy

Bailey putting out her shoes for St Nick

Don't you like her layered look

Looks like St Nick came by!

Jonathan seems thrilled

Bailey was excited to see what St Nick left her

Christmas in Albany with the Gilbert Family

We celebrated Christmas with my Dad's side of the family on Saturday at Kristi's house. Anne, Teri & her family were able to come up also, so we had a nice celebration.

I think this was the best one I got of the 4 of them
Bailey asking Kristi if she could open her gift

Bailey was excited to get her own set of Pet Shop toys

Reagan got a Ken doll

Bailey got a Princess lunch box from Kristi and it was filled with lots of other gifts all wrapped up, that kept Bailey busy for a little bit

Reagan with a Pet Shop Light up Dome

Eric, Teri, Tony, Anne & Matthew

Reagan & Emma with their matching Christmas pjs from Mama & Papa D

Grandmother, Mom, Geri & Dad

Bailey Reagan with their matching Christmas pjs from Mama & Papa D

Brandon helping get Matthew's new game set up

Reagan & Bailey playing with Matthew's new game

Matthew was the only one that sang for us using Emma's new microphone

Reagan's Winter Party

Reagan's Winter Party was Friday afternoon and the kids had a wonderful time. The other room mom planned this whole party, thank goodness! She did a great job with selecting the crafts for the kids to do during the party. The kids had a puzzle to do at one center, then made an ornament at the next, then made a picture with stickers in the "Igloo" and enjoyed snacks at the other center. Then we ended the party with making snowballs out of paper and the class had a big snowball fight! The kids loved that of course and it was fun to watch them during it.

Reagan's group in the Igloo

And the snowball fight begins!

What a big mess, but the kids had a great time!