Christmas 2012

My blessings

Indeed the most wonderful time of the year!  We had a great Christmas and I am once again reminded of how blessed I am.  I have the best husband and the best kids.  And I know no present under the tree will ever rival these precious gifts I have.  But I did get a pretty fabulous birthday/Christmas gift (my camera!!), so I will just let the pictures I took with that gift show the fun we had this Christmas.  I didn't get the lighting, exposure, and editing done right, but cherish every memory captured.

Tom got a bit tired of me and my camera :)

We travelled in the car. 

A lot.

Christmas with my family.

Cousins

Excited for Ady to open the first gift

Nana was a much better sport about posing for pictures than Tom

Emily's turn!

Telling Casey to back off, she's got it.  (I love Ady's excitement at what might be in Emily's present)

Every gift had an audience :)

 

When you hear someone say Christmas is for kids, this is what they are talking about

A BIG hug for papa (she loved her gift!!)

Home for Christmas Eve

Tracking Santa's progress around the world on NORAD is Casey's favorite Christmas Eve activity



Casey was a bell ringer at the Christmas Eve children's mass

Sprinkling reindeer food on the lawn

Leaving notes for Santa

And cookies

And milk

 Christmas morning!


I loved every single minute of our kids' pure excitement this Christmas.
 

I didn't need to open a single gift - these moments were the best present of all.



Emily, what is in that big gift??

A kitchen!

 Christmas with Tom's family.

Emily and grandpa

Special moments

Great-grandma Bickham

Grandma and Grandpa

Cousins

 

Wonderful Christmas memories.  Consider them captured.