Christmas Eve X 2

Our next stop was at MawMaw Maggie's. Every year, we get together with the whole Gravois family. Santa always finds time in his busy schedule to make a stop and help hand out special presents. The twins were frightened at first, but Alex gained the courage to give him 5 and then a hug before he left. Aiden waved from my lap and told him bye and he loved him, but would not get any closer.

Aiden was content hiding behind my legs while Santa was there (until the end). Notice how he is using the binoculars backwards. I think that made Santa seem farther away.

Alex got a little courage up right as Santa was leaving.

He was still a little scared here.

More Pictures from Christmas Eve at the Templets

Christmas Eve

We started off in Labadieville. We had a nice, simple lunch and the boys enjoyed opening all of their presents! They enjoyed seeing Aunt Kristen again. She enjoyed it too and decided to stay a couple of more days (thank goodness cause we needed her help one night.)

Pictures Coming Soon

I have "temporarily" misplaced my cord to attach my camera to the computer. I will look better this weekend. I will be updating the blog also. With a busy holiday and more craziness in our lives, I set aside the blog a couple of weeks, but I promise to update soon!

Christmas at Granny & PawPaw's

We had our Christmas at Granny and PawPaw's Sunday afternoon. Alex walked in and sat on PawPaw and within 2 minutes was out cold. We tried to wake him for presents a little later, but it was no good.


The twins each got a small puppy that follows them around (toy).

We gave Glenn a little 4 wheeler - he might be a little small for it now, but he will grow into it by spring.

Kirby and Shannon got a patio set for their new house.

And Wes got a Wii!! HE absolutely loves it!

Alex finally woke up.

And the twins will also have their bunk beds delivered next week.

Thanks for a great Christmas!

Christmas Party

Wesley had his school Christmas party Friday. Santa made a special appearance and even brought presents!!

Kris Kringle

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!

Yes - we had school today, but we had to let the kids out to play in the snow! I am so lucky to have Wesley at GES. I was able to go out with his class for a little while and play with him in the snow. It was the second best thing to being home and playing with all the boys in the snow.

Kris Kringle

Christmas starts early around here - my mom loves Christmas! She has us over every Sunday (as if we are not there most nights - ha) for Kris Kringle. She loves to spoil her little boys. This past week, the boys each received a train set. The boys have been totally into trains the past few weeks! They went crazy with the train set.

Playing Catch Up

Yes, we are still here. Here is what has been going on the past 2 weeks:

1st: GREAT NEWS! I passed National Boards. For those of you out of the education field, this has to be one of the highest honors/achievements a teacher can get. It took me all of last year to complete this process. This was definitely one of the hardest things I have ever done. Only about 30% of those that try for National Board make it their first year. I was lucky to have Keena working with me - she passed also.

Thank you to all of you, especially my parents, who helped watch the kids as I worked. After this summer I should be done with my masters as well - then a long break!