Christmas Eve

After doing Christmas with Andy's family we drove to Pensacola. We missed Christmas church service,but made it in time for our tradition of Italian food on Christmas Eve. My mom had gotten a new camera and was playing around with it most of the night. Most of these pictures were taken from her camera. She hasn't quite figured out the focus yet : ). She made a lot of videos of the night on accident too.

My mom captured my arrival.


Mr.Steve studying the menu.

And people don't beleive us when we saw we take horrible pictures (my fault this time).


Blurred group shot.

Hosmer Christmas

After a few delays we finally got to celebrate Christmas with Andy's family. Poor Noah and Donny both were really sick. Noah came straight from the hosptial to Chirstmas at BeBe's and Bad Papa's. It definitely was a memorable Christmas. Noah definitely racked up this Christmas!!

His face is priceless!

Bellingrath

Donny, Jill, Noah and Beth came to visit us for the weekend( they were our first over night visitors in our house). To kick off the holiday season we all went to Bellingrath Gardens to see the lights. They didn't disappoint. It was a great start to the Christmas season. It was especially wonderful to have Noah there with us this year. Its special to see things through a child's eyes. He loved the lights and seemed to be amazed by them.

The swans were Andy's favorite.

Noah and Bad-Papa.

Jill and Noah.

The underwater scene was my favorite by far.

Look how excited Noah was to see all the lights.

Group shot minus Beth.

Andy is such a trooper!

Decorating the tree

This was a team effort. Andy hung all the lights and put the tree in the stand. I put on all the ornaments. Getting the tree straight in the stand was they hardest part, since our floors have a slight slant to them.

Our first Christmas tree

My sister drove over for the day to help Andy and I get a Christmas tree. This was probably the fastest anyone in my family has ever picked out a tree. I looked at the tree we ended up getting and said "this is nice" and then turned around to look at some more and the next thing I knew Andy had the tree and was taking it to the guy to cut the bottom. There was a football game on and it was half time. Andy wasn't messing around. We probably were in and out in about 15 mins. I am sure that has to be a world record.