Christmas Eve/Day

We had a wonderful Christmas there spent with friends and family.  We started the holiday with friends on Christmas Eve, followed by lots of presents then dinner with the Blackwelder's. 

 The girls sleep together every Christmas eve.

 Santa came!

 Trying to find the the "Christmas Pickle" for a special present.

Baby Brynn trying out her new doll bed and channeling her inner Olivia Newton John.

Pada's Christmas Present

Emily and Abigail made an audio book for Pada as his present.  Emily patiently read and reread the pages to get it exactly right.  After and hour, she accomplished reading the whole book in the time allotted.  It was great.

Polar Express

The girls, along with their cousins, were lucky enough to ride on the Polar Express this Christmas. The girls were really excited.

New pajamas for the trip to the North Pole

 The Watson kids

 So Excited!

 The other Watson Clan

 Hot Chocolate!

 Approaching the North Pole

 Santa!

 Hugs.

 Sending off our letters.   Sorry about the scary eyes.

Thanks Nana and Pada for a great day!

Santa's Message

Emily and Abigail received a special message from Santa this year.  It is amazing how much Santa knows about the kid's behavior to decide whether or not they should go on the Naughty or Nice list.  Luckily they made the Nice list.  Phew!

Emily's Message

Christmas Recital/Grandma Comes to Town

The girls were lucky enough to have their Grandma up for a visit for their big Christmas recital.  The girls have been working hard on their routines and they did great!  Abby wasn't afraid of going on stage in the least.  She did such a great job. Emily was an old pro up there.  She did an amazing job!

 Gram and Abs

 Nana and Abs

Emily and Rylee

Emily(4th from the right)

Abigail(2nd from the right)
The rest of the weekend was spent with Grandmas making cookies and crafts.  Oh, and applying Gram's various sample make-up on their faces.  Thanks Mom.

The finished product.

Happy Thanksgiving!

There is nothing better than sharing a holiday with close friends and family.  We are lucky enough to celebrate Thanksgiving twice this year.  We had one of the most relaxing holidays to date.  Thanks Bob and Sandy and the Blackwelder family!

 This is how our day started.

 The crew!

 The boys!

Obviously the tryptophan hasn't kicked in yet.

Driscoll/Doolan Weekend 2011

We always look forward to our weekends with the Dricolls and the Doolans.  One never knows what it will bring.  This year was pretty relaxing considering there were 7 children and 6 adults under one roof.

1st dinner seating

Kiki and Chase

 The Go To Sleep Song

 Craft Time....thanks Steph

 BFF's Delaney and Abigail

 Emily, Reese, Kaylie, Abby and Delaney

 The Doolan girls.

We even got to go out and have some grown up time!

 The boys did too, they hit the Wining Butcher for steak tips and a "soda" tasting.

Thanks everyone for a great weekend!

Halloween Part II

Every year the Gilford Elementary School has a Halloween parade.  The kids and teachers dress up and walk down the street to the Village Store and back to school.  There were some great costumes this year!

 We continued our Halloween with friends trick or treating. 

 Anna and Emily

 The Clan

 This is what snow in October brings.

 Pink poodle

 Norah, Clark, Emily, Anna and Abby

Halloween

We ventured down to CT for Erin's annual Halloween party.  The kids had such a great time.  I don't know what they liked more, all the candy and desserts or the fact that it snowed over a foot while we were there.  The kids had so much fun!

 The start of the day

This is the best shot we could get before all the kids took off for the pinata.

 Lunchtime

 Emily's first snow/mud man

Abby going down the slide.  Mom attempted this a little later.

 Cousins

Enjoying some snow

 Some snow time before the trip north

 Thanks Rere for a great weekend!