Christmas Recap 2009

We had our usual and busy Christmas celebration. We visited Great Grandma and all of the Grandparents over a span of five days.

Great Grandma with her Great Grandkids.

Olivia asked Santa for a picture of Rudolph. Amazingly, Rudolph not only left a picture of himself but he also left gifts for the kids.

A set of horses from Grandma.

Santa left Caedan a remote control Fire Truck.

Olivia really wanted a horse for Christmas. Instead she got several horse things. Caedan gave her this horse snow globe. This was Olivia's favorite gift. She carried it around all day and even slept with it next to her. She said that this was her most special present.

New pajamas for Caedan.

Everyone loved Caedan's new train table.

I am pretty sure that this was one of Caedan's favorite gifts - flashing fire truck shoes. What could be better?

A new mountain bike for Olivia from Grandma and Grandpa.

If you are really good Santa fills your stocking at home and then again when you go to Orcas to celebrate with Grandma and Grandpa.
Stockings are not just for Santa to fill up with gifts.

Heading home after celebrating Christmas on Orcas.

Sadly, this is what happens when your little brother finds your snow globe. There were many tears shed after this accident. We tried to reattach the legs with superglue but the horse still did not survive this horrible accident.

Guess what Caedan is buying with his Christmas money? Anyone know where we can get a snow globe with a horse in it that plays music?

We are officially ready for Christmas at our house. The shopping is done and most of the baking is complete. Just one batch of cookies are left to make for Santa's visit and then we are ready.

The Christmas lights are up on the house.

The Christmas cards have been addressed and mailed.

The Christmas tree is decorated and the presents are wrapped. So far all of the ornaments are safe from little fingers.

We had a visit with Santa where we gave him the Christmas lists. Hopefully Santa will come through with that picture of Rudolph. Santa if you are reading this PLEASE do not get Olivia a horse. Even thought it is on her Christmas list we really do not have room for one.

Just in case the Christmas list that we gave to Santa did not make it to the North Pole we also had a visit with Mrs. Claus were she was taking down requests to pass along to Santa.

The kids have 'happily' sat in the front of the tree for the annual pictures.

For some reason this present has not stayed wrapped. After wrapping it three times I have conceded defeat.

Bring on the chaos of the holidays. The Connors are ready.

The Christmas Card...

that wasn't.

Everyone wants the perfect picture for their Christmas cards. Everyone in coordinating outfits sitting in a perfect pose and all with the perfect smile. The card that when some one opens it you know they will gush about cute everyone looks. So far we have taken 116 pictures on four different occasions and three different locations and we still do not have a Christmas card photo. We have visited Santa, gone to the park and posed in front of the Christmas tree. Caedan has fallen while running from the pictures and cut his hands and gotten a large bump on his forehead. Olivia got the giggles and she couldn't stop laughing. We decided that getting four people to look good in a picture was too difficult and so we tried to get just the kids. I am now thinking that maybe a picture of Robert and I just might be the ticket. Besides what people really want to see are the parents and not the kids, right?

Caedan was not impressed by Santa.

Caedan come back...

"The sun is TOOOOOO bright!"

This ended with a handful of Olivia's hair in Caedan's hands.

And so tomorrow we will try again because I also want people to gush at how cute my kids are when they open our Christmas card.