The Carolinas

The day after Christmas, I was picked up and taken to Nome and Hawkeye's house to spend the week. It was glorious! Not one kiddo was around to bother me. While I was there, my people headed to the Carolinas to visit their brothers and Lily and Henry's cousins. They drove to Columbia, SC and stayed for a couple of days to play with Ben and Sam and then headed up to Cary, NC to play with Maddie, Nate and Avery. It sounds like they had a lot fun and my tall people are very thankful and surprised that the car ride(s) went so well. Like usual, you can click the album to see pictures.

The Carolinas

Snowmen and Sledding

With the snow we got for Christmas, Lily was able to enjoy a couple of firsts....building a snowman (or two) and sledding. She loved it! The snow was a great packing snow for building snowmen and my cousins, Nome and Hawkeye, have an excellent sledding hill in their backyard. Here are some pictures.

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Snow 2010

Christmas 2010

It's hard to believe Christmas has come and gone and it's already 2011. My people enjoyed the holidays and learned that Henry is not a fan of Santa.

Maybe next year, bud.

They went to Dinner with Santa at the Zoo and had a lot of fun (even if Henry was afraid of jolly old St. Nick and all of his character friends that joined him at the dinner). After dinner, they got to walk around the zoo and check out all of the lights and decorations. Click the album for more pictures.

Dinner w/ Santa and Zoo Lights 2010

The rest of the week leading up to Christmas they decorated sugar cookies (I won't even tell you how much my tall girl person cheated with the cookies this year), saw Grandma and Grandpa Stewart, went to Christmas Eve service at Papa Dean's church and spent Christmas Day at Grandma and Grandpa Wagner's. Click on the album below to see pictures. We had a white Christmas and the kids, especially Lily, LOVED it. I think she expects it to snow every Christmas now. I'll save those pictures for another time though.

Christmas 2010

More Crafts

My people must've been on a crafting kick yesterday. Thanks to grandma, they made gingerbread house placemats...

...and tissue paper candy canes. Lily had a lot of fun with these. She did both of the placemats and one of the candy canes. Hopefully you can tell which one.

Then Baldy made a...wait for it...Darth Vader snowflake. (click the link for the template)

See it?

Merry Christmas, Part 3

We finished our Christmas celebrations this past Sunday with Grandma Polly and Papa Jerry. Santa had left some presents at their house and they brought them over along with some Bandana's BBQ...mmm...though I didn't actually get to eat any of it. Lily had a lot of fun opening more presents and really loves her new doll house. Click below for pictures. Katie and Greg are enjoying their presents too. They've been playing Super Mario Bros. Wii every night.

Wagner Christmas

Merry Christmas, Part 2 - Christmas Morning

Christmas morning was a lot of fun this year. Lily was really into opening presents and the first thing she said when she woke up was "Where's Santa?" After opening presents she played with some of her stuff and then got ready to go to Grandma Polly and Papa Jerry's house for their annual gathering. She actually posed for some pictures before Baldy took her over there. I think this was the first time she stood still and smiled on command.

I feel the need to mention that Santa didn't bring me anything on Christmas morning...again. I'm not bitter though.

Here are some more pictures.

Christmas Morning 2009

Merry Christmas, Part 1

Lily visited Santa Claus last week. She wasn't scared of him at all this year. When it was her turn, she ran right up to him and sat on his lap. He asked what she wanted for Christmas and she answered "Toys". I think she kept it nice and generic just to cover all her bases.

My very pregnant girl person (more on that development a little later in a different post) had to steal this picture of Lily with Santa. Did you know that the mall they were at required a minimum purchase of a $20 picture package if you wanted to use your own camera to take a picture?! Call my people cheap, but they thought that was a tad ridiculous, so when the elves weren't looking Katie pulled out her camera and snapped a quick pic. Santa looked at her a bit like she may have just been moved to the naughty list, but oh well. Katie quickly ushered Lily off his lap and they went on their way. Really, this isn't a bad picture for such a sneak attack.

This past Sunday my people celebrated Christmas with Baldy's side of the family. Lily got to see her Aunt and Uncle and play with her cousins that are from South Carolina. She had a blast and all of the kids enjoyed their presents. Click on the picture below to see the album.

Stewart Christmas

We'll be celebrating with Katie's family this weekend, so stay tuned for some more pictures.

Christmas 2008 Recap

I got a lot of alone time this last week. My cousin Hunter was in town with his family for Christmas.

As a result, my people spent a lot of time at Grandma and Grandpa Stewarts house while I enjoyed the quiet house. The week started off with all of them going to a "photo shoot" so they could get a nice family picture. I hear it went well. We'll see as soon as the proofs are available.

On Christmas Eve, my people went to the Christmas Eve service at Grandpa Dean's church. Then they came home to wait for Santa Claus. Lily had a lot of fun opening her presents Christmas morning. Here's a picture of my bald person helping her open some Sesame Street DVDs.


After opening presents, we all watched part of the Disney Christmas Parade on TV. Lily waved back at everyone and danced along to the music. Then we all got cleaned up and headed to Grandma and Grandpa Wagner's house for their annual Christmas gathering. Santa had also stopped by there. The first present Lily opened was a Mizzou cup with a wind-up Tiger on top. She loved it.


Once they finished there, they stopped back by the house to let me out and give me dinner (thank goodness!) and then headed to Grandma and Grandpa Stewart's house. Santa had stopped by there too! Here's Lily opening "My First Purse". She thought she was hot stuff.


She got to spend a lot of time running around with her cousins from South Carolina. Once they started to get tuckered out, they put on their new PJs and actually stopped to pose for a picture on the stairs! That's Sam up top, Ben in the middle and Lily in front of him.


Hunter and his family headed home the next day. Now we're just relaxing and enjoying my bald person's time off. He doesn't go back to work until January 5. My tall girl person and Lily will be heading to North Carolina at the end of this week to see my cousin Winston and his family. My bald person and I will have the house to ourselves for a week or so. It should be great.

Oh, Santa didn't forget me either. He brought me a nice bone.


My people forgot to take a picture of Lily in her Christmas dress, so here's a little video of her "flying" a toy plane that gives you a view of it.