Christmas 2008

It's already here and gone, and here are some moments to remember...











Tori and Lauren's Christmas dance recital (Tori's first)...















The Vesta UMC Christmas program: Tori and Adrion were both part of the heavenly host...Tori was also a part of Mrs. Linda's bell choir.















The third Santa of the season...

















Adrion with his first real sickness ever--some kind of "throat blisters" complete with 103 degree fever--on Christmas Eve!!















Tori and her daddy at the Kerns Family Christmas without me and the baby. :(












Christmas with the Smiths...



Missing are pictures of Tori with her "FurReal" pony that Santa brought. We do have video, but I don't have time to figure that out at the moment. :) Gotta go get my house put back together! I must say before ending this post though that we are so, so blessed. We have an absolutely amazing family, and I'm so thankful for the overwhelming show of love that we share each holiday season. My heart is full, and I'm looking forward to a wonderful 2009!

The Christmas Train

Close to Pryor, OK is a little place called Dry Gulch where they have a Christmas train every year. A friend at work told me about it, so we went last Saturday. It's a neat little place, and we enjoyed it! The train takes you from the story of creation through Christ's resurrection. Then, Tori got to ride a carousel and a pony, we rode in a horse-drawn carriage, and the kiddos got to visit Santa. Adrion was not intimidated at all by his first encounter with big scary Santa! Tori and Adrion have actually seen Santa twice already--here and at G's work. They'll probably see him at least two more times still before Christmas...I can't remember that many Santas being around when I was a kid!

Here's me, Tori, and Adrion with the train lit up in the background.

Here's Tori telling Santa she wants "Fur-Real" Smores pony that "eats a carrot, moves her head up and down, and combs her hair really pretend". This was news to me and G who were under the impression she was not interested in this pony. Needless to say, we revamped the Santa list.

Here's my G and my little man sporting their stylin' winter hats.

Here we all are on the train.

And I just like this one...the roses in the background are from G for our 10-year anniversary! Love you, my G.

And tonight Tori and I are off to see the wizard with my drama kids! The season is getting busy!