Christmas Day!

Here, Marina and Jett are enjoying their new toys by the Christmas tree. I would like to say that this is the photo I took on Christmas Day. But I sort of recreated the photo here because I accidentally deleted the real one on my camera. I'm so bummed! You can still see Christmas at our house though... the windows show lots of light because we've gotten a lot of snow here!

Santa brought Jett a new tool bench (shown above by the tree) and a dart tag game to play with Mark. I'm not sure who enjoys this game more. They have lots of fun running in the basement and playing tag with it. These darts are serious... even coming with eye protection! Below, Jett just got hit...

Jett and Marina both received new vacuums for Christmas. They had one child's vacuum and they always fought over it... so I decided to get them two new ones. These are child-sized versions of the Dyson vacuums. Unfortunately, they are not as good as the first one (a Scooby Doo Bissell, no longer available - I checked!). So, they still fight over the first vacuum...

We made a gingerbread house after Christmas...
time got away from me but we had fun doing this even after the big day. It's still on display!

Marina in her Santa hat, dancing to some music.

Christmas Gift Giving

We were fortunate to have a wonderful Christmas with many
great gifts that we received...

Marina received a twin baby set at the Johnsons.
She's showing them off as cousin Cyan looks on and Grandma JJ hugs one of the babies.

Jett was really excited about this dual-control helicopter at the Johnsons! So many packages at the Joneses... lots of great clothes inside!

A delicious turkey dinner compliments of Mom & Dad!

Seth is styling in his new KU shooting jersey that MJ picked out for him.
If he wears this to a KU game, they just might put him in! Two cousins enjoying each other's company by the fire... Evelyn and Marina.

Christmas Fun

What a great Christmas! I can't believe it's aready over!


Before we left for Wichita, Marina actually put this on herself.










Here are my two cuties on our stairway... the tree is behind them.









We had a wonderful 5-day Christmas event. We started with making a very wise choice to leave for Wichita on Friday evening before Christmas, rather than the original Saturday morning. They were calling for snow on Saturday and because we didn't want to chance it, we went early. Much to our surprise - there was an all-out blizzard! I've never seen anything like it. Here, Brent, Brandon and Jett are shoveling the sidewalks.




Mark is trying out one of Christy's Christmas presents... she collects eyeballs and these are ceramic ones that I found. Mark scared Marina putting these in!

To get you in the Holiday Spirit...

Christmas is upon us! Can't believe how quickly it goes from Jett's birthday to Christmas but here we are!

Thanksgiving Photos - better late than never!

Here are some great photos to share from the Thanksgiving holiday! We had fun hosting the Jones/Johnsons for Thanksgiving. Great Grandpa Earl made the trip from Wichita too! For good photos of the Jones Thanksgiving that was earlier that week, be sure to visit Evey's blog on the right. My brother got some great pics!





The turkey cooks the turkey!





Cousins Evelyn and Marina share a hug.

KU pep rally was cold for the KU/MU game! We didn't win, but we got a great bowl game to Miami!



Jett poses with Santa. He asked for a yellow remote control corvette from Santa. I had to remind him that he had TWO! So Jett corrected himself -- oh yea, I need a RED corvette!

Don't expect to see photos of "Claus" with Marina. She is terrified of him. She likes looking at him in books and on shows. But if he's in person, she yells "NO CLAUS! NO CLAUS!" Santa has been pretty understanding about this...