Merry Christmas from our house to yours!

Santa came to our house this morning. John and Drew came to our bedroom at 6:50 and said the tree lights are on! Can we go downstairs? (That's our rule... if the tree lights are on its go) My timer was set for 7:00. It was a little off. They were excited! They got a lot of surprises. The big gift was from Mommy and Daddy. All John asked for was a four wheeler or surprises. Well he liked the Georgia vs. Auburn black out print Santa brought him. Patrick decided to sleep in this morning. How often does that happen? Finally John and Drew wanted to go wake him once they were done with their stuff. They just wanted to play with his too. So at 7:40 off we went to get Patrick up. He didn't want to get up.

Preschool Christmas Program

Monday night was Patricks preschool Christmas program. He was very excited and had been singing his songs for weeks. When I dropped him off in his class before the program he was not happy. Screaming! It was different being left with Daddy and brothers and Bob with us. His teacher took him by the arm as he was reaching for me. She said he finally calmed down after kicking off his shoes and throwing a fit. You would have never known it when he walked out to sing. I was sitting down on the floor in front of where he was. He just waved at me. Mrs. Ashley told me about the shoes being kicked off and she had told him he'd rather deal with her than his mommy. He was so proud of himself afterwards and had even told his teachers that his Bob had come.

Lunch with Santa

Lunch with Santa Sunday. The boys were excited to see Santa again. Drew of course wondering what he had told him before. Patrick knew he wanted Golf clubs and golf balls. John knew he wanted a four wheeler and if he couldn't have that just bring him some surprises. Its fun. We've done every since John was little. Every year the chief makes a display out of food. It's wonderful and neat to see. This year it was gingerbread houses. And the children were able to help decorate this year. The big one is the Martha Berry Museum.

Family Christmas Weekend Getaway

Our second annual Christmas weekend getaway. This year we choose to visit the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville, TN. Some good friends moved to Nashville this past May, we were able to visit and see them during our stay. Friday night after checking in our hotel we went to their house and the boys played with Katie and Andrew. Then we went out to dinner. The kids had a blast getting to visit with friends. Saturday we went to the "ICE" The theme this year was How the Grinch Stole Christmas! That was a lot of FUN but COLD. The boys had fun with Katie and Andrew Dovan sliding down the ice slides. It was about 10 degrees in there. We later had dinner reservations at The Pam Tillis Christmas Dinner Party. The boys were great! It wasn't very entertaining for them as she and her band performed a medley of Christmas songs and her number one hits. It was great but after sitting for an hour and a half we were impressed on how well all three behaved. We did tell them if they didn't have to be spoken to once then we'd go on the boat ride in the hotel afterwards. It was a river that ran through part of the hotel. Sunday we took our time and went to the Opry Mills Mall and met my brother and his wife for lunch at the Aquarium restaurant. That was neat. The boys liked watching the fish swim around as we ate. We had a great weekend. Its fun to go look at all the Christmas lights and decorations during this wonderful time of the year. Below are a few pictures from the weekend.

Kindergarten perform during PTO

Kindergarten performed last Thursday evening during the PTO at school. Drew was excited to have all his family come see him. (m)(d)(j)(p)(n) & (b) He went down the list. He did a good job.