This is my brother Kim and his family. They live in Washington, Fort Lewis. This spring Kim is suppose to deploy to Iraq. They came for Christmas, so of course you have to do pictures...

I love these! They are a great looking family... We took a lot of photos, I chose these because they look good of each person, and also they show so much the personalities of them. Logan is adorable, the whole family fell in love with him and it was so fun to have a baby in the house for a few weeks. Will is so much like his dad, free spirited and a killer smile, I love his eyes. You can't even see them when he smiles. Shay is such a little lady, and now she is talking. She didn't say much when they moved, she is in pre-school and growing so much. Asami is a treasure, we are glad that in all the dumb things he did as a kid he chose a wife well. We love her so much and have told Kim many times that if anything happened between the two of them ( we don't foresee this, but we just had to tell him so he knows where we stand) that we are going to keep her!

Just this year I have started a new tradition. I decorate the kid's rooms while they sleep on their birthday. It is so fun and the other older kids who are still awake help. Elijah's birthday was the day before and being so close after Christmas (29th) and he was staying in his cousins room, I forgot... I felt so bad about it. But the next night I almost forgot Esthers (30th) and ran to wal-mart at 11 PM to buy stuff. I thought at one point that she was going to wake up, but didn't.

They are so angelic when they are asleep...

The good thing about the holidays is all the family that visits. Here is her cake with her cousins...

All these pretty girls....

Christmas morning dawns early, but not too bad about 7:30 is when the natives stir. We force the kids to wait gift opening until after breakfast. They go nuts!!! We have a huge breakfast of pancakes, eggs, sausage, grits (we have a southern grandma and grew up on them.) and juice. We spend a few moments clearing the food away and then converge around the tree. The dad's pass out the gifts. We try to keep it one at a time so the grown-ups can see what the kids get, but soon they are getting restless and it is a free for all. Days later I am still discovering what they got because I loose track of who is opening what.

This is my Father, Carvel and his grandson, Logan.

Reston opening gifts...

Malachi and Elijah

Cris got a football!!!

My brother Kim and his son Will.

Esther being a ballarina.

Lizzy with a new stuffed animal.

Paige in the morning

Tayla and her Stocking.

Scott and I

Coco's being carried by Malachi.

Will wrestling with Coco's

This is what their room looks like a lot of the time. It is a little more crazy because Chistmas just got dropped in there, we have organized it a little more now, but we still get days like this when the cousins come to play.

Will and Shay were absorbed in a movie.

Joy and Paige in their new clothes.

This is what Christmas can do to you. Tayla climbed in the Nativity and fell asleep.
Christmas is such a wonderful time, full of traditions and family time. We hope that the true meaning of the Season doesn't escape the kids. But just being together and spending the time to create good memorise is always worth the time...

Hope your season was great also!