Christmas in Tennessee

Well we just made it back from our Christmas trek to Tennessee! We had a great visit with Kevin's parents in Illinois on our way and then on to east Tennessee for the rest of the trip.
Since Ethan is really into dressing up these days, he got several costumes this year which were a huge hit. He must have changed 25 times from Spiderman, pirate, Superman and Zoro--too funny!

Here are Ethan and his Mi-mi decorating their annual gumball tree- I think more may have gone into the mouth than onto the tree :)

Here are the guys having fun- unwrapping gifts ended up in a fun game of paper ball war---

Here we are in our Christmas pj's- a fun tradition!

We had a fun trip although the drive yesterday was a bit long--Ethan is sick with a 104+ temp. and Andrew was getting a new tooth. The highlight of the day though was getting to see my dear friend Cindy in Knoxville. It is always a blessing to get to spend time with her and her family. We hope you all had a wonderful holiday as well.

Christmas Play

Ethan was a wiseman in his Christmas play at school - his first on stage performance. He really captured the essence of the role. This was clear in the delivery of his one line: "Wow, I want to bring a gift!" He had even been practicing at home using a box of wet wipes for his gold. Seriously, it was pretty cute- even though you didn't really understand much of what was said. The line of 15 parents with video cameras (myself included) was the laugh of the morning.

A Little Snow

This morning we woke up to Ethan screaming "Wake up guys- it snowed!" Even though we only had about an inch and we tried explaining that there might not be enough to make a snowman- he was determined that we were wrong. What we ended up with was a miniature version of Frosty on the front porch (complete with coffee bean eyes and a petite carrot compliments of Kevin). Pretty funny. We are expecting even more snow this evening-it kind of puts you in the Christmas mood :)

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We had a family photo shoot a few weeks ago and thought you might enjoy seeing a few pictures of the boys. They had a good time playing and goofing off together. We will reserve the ones of the family because you may be getting one in your Christmas card :) We have been busy with all kinds of Christmas activities these days and getting ready for our long trip (usually takes us 12 hours) to Tennessee. Thank goodness for DVD players and two relatively good travelers. We are looking forward to seeing all our friends and family over the next several weeks.