Christmas Afternoon....FINALLY!

Okay instead of freezing up and not posting ANYTHING, I will bite the bullet, post a few pictures (and when I say a few I mean a LOT) from our Christmas afternoon so as to not disappoint my dying fans out there **snicker** and then MOVE ON.

Our little Creder.

Aaaah....video games.

Morgan and Grace showing Grandma what Santa brought them.

Mmmm...doesn't that chocolate look lifelike?! These were the toys Grace chose to bring (along with her leapfrog).

Yeah, pretty much this is what Gage did the entire morning. He had plenty of visitors and was NEVER bored.

We finally had to take the leap frog away from Grace so that she would interact with the family.

I particularly like that the trucks are parked on the napkins, dont' you?

Here is Morgan thoroughly enjoying all the laughter and good times when it comes to opening presents.

What do you suppose Grandpa got for Christmas? Hmmm.....goggles perhaps?

Crede and his never-ending car obsession

Merry Christmas everyone. Too bad it's now January 16th...I know I know...I'm gettin' there.

Christmas Morning Wrappings

Well finally I've gotten our pictures of Christmas morning. Gage found everything verrrrrrry interesting, and the other kiddo's just enjoyed tearing that wrapping paper off as fast as their little fingers would allow. Here are some of my fav's from this day.

The kids with their very first present.

I think Crede is thinking, "Did Grace get something better than I did?"



Bendawhat? Bendawho? Bendaroo's!! For more bendaroo fun go here



Crede and his Semi-truck



Here are Barbie and Semi meeting for the first time. They get along great these days.



Grace showing off her Hi-Ho Cherrie-O game.

I think Chance might just be as excited as Crede to see that Semi-Truck....just a hunch.

Gage in wonder at his new toy.

The first glimpse of the front-room madness.

What? Gage got finger food? Yep.

Aaaaand wrapping paper.

Stay tuned for even MORE Christmas madness. I haven't even posted our AFTERNOON pictures yet. I'm sure you are just on the edge of your seat aren't you. AREN'T YOU!!

Christmas Eve

Oh man...I'm behind. Here are some pictures from our Christmas Eve Excursion. We went to go see "Alvin and the Chipmunks, the SQUEAKquil". That, I am pretty sure, was the longest 2 hours of my entire life. Has anyone else found it disturbing to watch the Chipette's shake their goods to "All the Single Ladies"? I dunno... I just thought the entire movie was torture.

On the PLUS side...my kids LOVED the show. They loved all the music, all the stinkers (and the accompanying sound to go with said stinkers) and all the kids in the show. I mean, what is Christmas all about really? Chipmunks!

Oh, I am sooooooo kidding there. We really know what CHRISTmas is all about. We went to the movies, came home, watched the Nativity Story and then finished up the night with ol' Mr. Krugers Christmas. (It was the first time Chance has watched that one...and, no, I didn't miss the eye-rolling the ENTIRE show)

I will post some Christmas pictures here shortly. I just wanted everyone to know we are still alive and kickin here. :)

Here are all the kids before leaving for the movie.

Little Gage content as can be.

Crede was in awe at all the movie displays in the theatre.

Grace trying her very hardest to behave herself.

Morgan being her cute self.

And Gage right before succombing to Dad's magic spells that he seems able to cast. He fell asleep shortly after this one. Cute little boy.

Aaaand here's Crede again...trying HIS best to behave before they let us in the theatre to sit down.

Ode to Grace

Today's post will be directed towards my 2nd child - Grace. I'm going to focus on her today because she is taking me for a ride. It's like a puke-inducing ride that you would get on at "Six Flags." There are some days where you just don't feel like getting on the ride because the ride doesn't EVER slow down, and it makes your stomach drop at inopportune times. Once you get on the ride you find yourself enjoying it. (That is IF you weren't motion-sick to begin with.) There are even parts when you can't help but laugh out loud. When the end of the ride eventually comes you find yourself thinking, "Let's do it again!" That's my Grace. Never a dull moment.

She is such a funny person. She is just happy to be alive. She is ALWAYS smiling (except for when no one is paying attention to her or she is in trouble.) and she is always full of very funny antidotes.

Grace, we love you. I hope that you get a child just like you.



struttin' her stuff in her new skirt. (Her very favorite thing to do in her pettiskirt is to "shake her rump" to see her skirt shuffle)



The "pre" photo-shoot glamour. I wanted to see what hot rollers would do to her hair. Needless to say, she didn't enjoy them too much.



Well this is how we started our morning today before church. If you want to read the entire story, go here: www.onesmallglimpse.blogspot.com

Official photo shoot.

I've officially started a new venture. It's called emily bailey photography. Yeah, I know...reaaaaaaaaaaaaaal original. I took my kids out today for a photo shoot and I realized something. You know what it was?

Taking pictures of 4 kids by themselves aged 6 and under is not an easy task. All of my "group" pictures don't look the greatest, but I had a fabulous time with their individual pictures. This just tells me that I'm going to have to practice and practice. You're welcome to check out my official website with other photos on it at www.emilybaileyphotography.blogspot.com if you feel so inclined. If not, that's great - here are some of the photo's from today:

Grace cheesin' it up

Crede's signature look. Little stinkpot!! He goes into this world of "I'm not going to look at the camera even if you bribed me with pure sugar." and will NOT look at me. This is when he was finally coming out of it.

What a sweet big sister. Gage wasn't too enthralled with our photo shoot today. He sure looked sharp though. Sharp and round at the same time. Go figure.

Our Morgan I know this one is just a tad out of focus...but I still am enjoying looking at it.

Happy Birthday Chance! The big 4-0!! (not really.....)

If ya' want to read the whole "mushy" post I wrote about him, you're welcome to go to my other blog, www.onesmallglimpse.blogspot.com and check it out. Otherwise, here is my favorite picture of my favorite partner in crime.

Happy Birthday, I love you!!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! We started off our festivities this year with a little pumpkin carving. This year Chance stepped up his game by adding actual horns to his pumpkin. Usually his pumpkins just have a deer carved right into them. Morgan got to draw the face on hers and we carved it out for her. Here are their pumpkins. Cute cute. Grace and I carved the ol' standard Jack-O-Lantern face...nothin' too exciting there.

Here are the kids after carving their pumpkins. Cute little kids in their PJ's.

The day of Halloween I had planned a very exciting day. Our neighbor gave us this gingerbread house kit (which LOOKED so cute.). When we got it out of the box I noticed that you needed to be a professional cake decorator to do some of the details shown on the box. Come on people!! The dumb icing didn't hold up like it was supposed to, and I wasn't about to sit and wait 2 hours for it to harden up before moving onto the candy part. Anywho, as you can see below, my impatience and lack of professional training helped our house to look like this.

Here's a nice close up for you too. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......gooey.

After the gingerbread, I wanted to take my kids out to take their pictures in their costumes. Morgan and Grace did really well. They held still, and I got some really cute pics of them. Crede, on the other hand, didn't want ANY part of it. He ran around, giggled, and wouldn't look at me to save his life. Gage was asleep in the car and I didn't want to wake him, so we only have pictures of my 3 kids instead of all 4. Oh well....maybe next year, right?

Here's Morgan:

She was a "charm school" witch this year. Her hat was huge so we took some without it.

Here's Grace, our little ladybug. She was so stinkin' cute in her outfit.

Check out those eyes!

And finally, our stinker, Crede. He was a skunk. He wouldn't let me put his "hat" on, so this is whatcha got.

And lastly...all 3 kids with their bags ready for the fun to begin. Candy here we come!!

Well there you have it. Our Halloween. Gage, next year you will have a lot more fun, I promise. Love you kids!