Getting ready for Santa

The kids were getting ready for Santa on Christmas eve eve. Yes since we were not home on Christmas eve Santa came to our house one day early. It is amazing how he knows everyone's situation.

The kids woke up at 5:45am and discovered the cookies had been eaten and found some gifts under the tree!

They were so excited and came woke us up and Santa had filled our stockings as well.

Christmas 2005

We spent Christmas eve over at GrandPa and Nana's. Tracy and Elizabeth were there as well with their new adopted dog: Bo. Yes there were two Bo's their - it did get a little confusing at times when someone called, "Here Bo, come on boy!".

Another highlight of this time was on Christmas morning we took the Christmas tree out and planted it in the backyard.


After a good time at the Hornick's we headed over to Gamma's house where we celibrated Christmas with Gamma, Papa and Momo. Here are a few pictures of that time. Thank you all for the gifts you sent to the kids, they had a wonderful time.

Piano Resital Video

Here is a short video of the kids piano resital. It is 8 minutes long so I had to cut the size way down so that you could download it in a reasonable time.

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Jingle Bells

The kids singing Jingle Bells!

Christmas at Aunt Susan's

Gigi, Hanna, Bo and Patrick inspect their goodies. We enjoyed visiting with Aunt Susan, Grandmama Cooper, Uncle Teddy, Dustin, Robert, Theresa, Dee Dee and Kimberly for Christmas dinner and get together at Aunt Susan's house.

Piano Resital

Piano Resital!

Last Thursday evening the kids performed in their piano resital. They were all kind of nervous but did a pretty good job. After all the kids were done they were allowed back on the stage to play the piano. Of course they all played their parts perfect when a room full of eyes were not on them.

Donkey Farm!

Donkey Farm!I guess before this is over we are going to end up with a donkey farm. We started with one standard jack, aka "Jack-Jack". One week later we now have two miniture donkeys, Apache and Jasper.See more pictures on the kid's individual blog pages.