All I wanted for Christmas was a family photo. Ha! What was I thinking?? I was talking to Allison during this one. She had one of her moody moments just before attempting these. At least Mark and the other 2 look good ;-)

Not bad.

Finally a smile from my baby girl!

Me and my girls.

Christmas #1

We had our first Christmas celebration the week before when the Jonathan Kiel's were in town. We had our annual Christmas breakfast (my favorite!) cooked by the three Kiel men (Gia was still bed-ridden) and then gifts. The eggs benedict were AWESOME and we all had so much fun opening gifts, especially the kids. Just for the record, I got 2 new toilets from Pa......I had gotten 1 toilet last year from my dear husband. Which I never got! But now the 2 new ones are installed upstairs and I'm waiting on my other 2 (thanks Mark) to be shipped. It's the finer things in life!!

Here are the cousins waiting patiently on breakfast to be served. They are so cute in their Christmas pj's.

4 different directions.....

Ethan became quite attached to this life-size nutcracker. He mostly enjoyed dragging him around the house.

E-man with his Pa.

Guess who Emily looks like??

Ethan reading to Pa. This is his FAVORITE book........tractors and trucks. All boy!

The girls modeling their new costumes. And matching "barbies."

YAY!! Sleeping Beauty shoes!

And then they switch! Allison is such a sweet Belle and Emily is really getting into the Jasmine roll.

Who Has a Birthday?

This was the title of the Vestavia Day School Christmas program this year. All the 4K classes did a great job. I was videoing this as well, so not many snapshots.

Emily is next to Savannah, her bestest friend. She wouldn't have it any other way. Only thing missing is the butterfly faces ;-)

Proud Em walking off stage. Love this expression she is giving her daddy!

Cookies and punch in the Lion room!

Papa made the program. Emily was beyond excited. Nana tried to make it but got stuck in a parking deck due to icy road conditions :(

Emily with Mrs. Nancy.

This is the elephant room's party. Allison had a blast. Here she is with all her friends enjoying all the goodies!

Showing us the snowman dance!

Daddy and Ethan having fun with the elephants.

2010 National Champions!!

WAR EAGLE!! It's great to be an Auburn Tiger!!

An update

is coming soon. I promise to get all the Christmas photos up as soon as things calm down a bit. Since my last post we've had Christmas parties and programs at school, a few birthday parties, Santa came to visit, we got our house - interior - painted (and had to move out for almost 2 weeks off and on), and had a snow/ice blizzard. Whew!! Lots of craziness going on around the Kiel household. But right now we are watching Auburn play in the National Championship game. Well, the kids and I are. Mark is in sunshiny Glendale cheering the Tigers on in person. Jealous?? Tons!! War Eagle and I'll be back soon!!