You can see how thrilled she is, hehehe!!
Not that this was a smart move on my part, but I took these pics while driving cause they looked so adorable! I was on a back road with hardly no traffic at all so I didn't feel too bad about doing it. Plus look at them, isn't it so sweet!
This is how my pictures begin in Missouri:)!! The twins attacked Uncle Phillip and being the good unle that he is he carried both of them all over the house:)!! They laughed and carried on for a good long time! Not sure how Phillip had enough strength to carry them like that for so long, but they all really enjoyed it and knew they had their Uncle Phillip wrapped around their fingers after that, hehehe!!
On Monday we started our week out by going to one of the twins', Noah, Preschool Christmas party. They began their party with the goodies that were brought in. Noah really enjoyed his cupcake the most! John was trying to be the dutiful parent by trying to convence him to eat more of his fruit:)!! Even Noah thought that was funny!!
After their yummy goodies everyone was put into groups of 5 or so and split up between the room. Noah started in the decorating cookie area. He was very much into that activity:)!!
Next he went to the play area to play with foam blocks. John and Phillip got in on that and they all 3 tried to build them up as high as they'd go and when Noah had decided it was high enough he said, "It's done!" John and Phillip said no we can add more, but Noah was done and he took his hands and tore the tower down, it was so funny:)!! Phillip said I guess it was done, hehehe!!
The last station they had was coloring a Christmas tree. I tried to help him by getting him to remember how his tree at home had all sorts of colors on it and he informed me that that was the ornaments and the tree had to be colored all the way green first:)!! He was only coloring the bottom half of it so I thought he wasn't going to do the top, but that just was not the case!!
After all the stations they were told to move to the carpet for a little bit of quiet time while they passed out presents. I started at one side of the group, but could not get a good pic of Noah so I moved to the other side of the room and it was much better over there. Noah quickly found me and would look my way for some poses, too funny!! At the end of the presents they sung this goodbye to my friends song and in one part they say our brains worked real hard so kiss my brain and Noah posed for that one. He looked right at me and held out his hand from kissing his brain just for a picture!! I was so amused cause he doesn't usually ham anything up! He's usually the shy one, but he seemed to be thrilled to have us there at his party:)!!
On Tuesday Savannah had her preschool Christmas party! They started out by having to sit quietly on a boot that was designed on the carpet, very cute! I decided I was too far away so I got a close up of Vannah from another angle!
Then they had their Christmas goodies that was brought in. There were cookies, cupcakes and I think some fruit. Savannah just like Noah was way more interested in the cupcake than anything else. John again tried to get his child to eat more of the good stuff, amusing to see that same scene all over again:)!!
After all the yummies they played musical chairs! That was cute to watch that many kids play. They played very nicely with each other from what I could see!
Once the winner was made and chairs were put back at their tables one of the mothers started a fun game of pin the carrot nose on the snowman! She blind-folded each kid, gave them a sticker carrot nose, and sent them on their way towards the snowman on the wall. Savannah seemed to have gotten a kick out of that!!
The same mother had another game to play as well where she would ask each kid a Christmas question and they got a treat for the correct answer. They all liked that one!
Then it was quiet reading time while teachers got presents ready to hand out. John and Phillip both got into that with Savannah. Then when Phillip got up and other kids realized that John was reading to his daughter a bunch of boys flocked him to get him to read to them as well!! It was really sweet!
Finally presents were handed out! Everyone went to ripping open their gifts! Savannah got a Mator Book from Cars, which was suppose to be a boy's gift, and the boy beside her got a princess book so they actually traded and were very happy with their books:)!!
I eventually got to have a picture taken with Savannah after all the activities were over! The Sunday before this event Savannah had worn little red bells in her pony tails and would come up to me all day and jingle them at me, so very cute! So I wore my jingle bell ear rings just for her that day and she loved them she told me:)!!
Christmas Eve wasn't majorly eventful unless you ask the kids I'm sure:)!! They got to open up all their gifts from Grandma and Grandpa! Us adults also exchanged gifts as well. We draw names for the adults every year and that works out so nice. Everyone buys for the kids though!
I just took random shots throughout the day. This one is of Sparkles and Sadie playing tug-of-war, a favorite passtime for the 2 of them:)!!
And this shot of Oreo and Sparkles was just too sweet not to get! Oreo is John and Vicki's old dog just like Regan is to us! The 2 older ones don't get their picture that often. I think they avoid them on purpose. Regan use to snub his nose at me when I'd try to take one. He just doesn't like them and I'm thinking Oreo might be like that too!
Now this was precious! Not that I should have allowed Tucker to be close to the table, but I was reading recipes for Christmas Day and while I was busy doing that he wanted lap time and I thought that was okay as long as he didn't touch the table. Well, everyone else caught him when he laid his head on the table and began to snore! He was dead asleep! It was so cute!
Eventually Vicki and I had to go to the store and so I laid Tucker on Phillip's back and he just plopped on him and went right back to sleep:)!! Isn't he adorable! Phillip was playing transformers in the floor with the kids!
Sleep took over the puppies by that evening! Have no idea why I was the chosen bed, but it made a cute pic!
Now this was too cute to me! Vicki was getting Noah cleaned up for bedtime and he just sat there like an adult with his legs crossed and he looked so serious! Had to snap a shot!
Well, we woke up to a White Christmas this year, which was totally a dream come true for me:)!! I don't get to see this kind of beauty every day and so I thoroughly enjoyed it! Here's some random scenery pics I took around the house. I love these pictures! The scenery was just breath-taking to me!
The dogs took to the snow after a while! At first Tucker kept lifting his paws up every time he walked, but eventually he got use to it! Sparkles ran all over it like it was the funest thing she'd ever been in. Although Vicki said it wasn't that way the first time they let her out before we had gotten up. I guess with the pups it gave her more courage:)!! The first pic is of Sparkles and Sadie, Sparkles wouldn't stay still long enough for me to get a good shot of her:), and then the second one is of both pugs.
Okay I know this might be silly to some, but for me even the steps as we walked out the front door covered in snow looked so neat!
Here's how the vehicles looked with blankets of snow!
On both sides of the front porch is these cool looking lil trees and I just loved how they got snow on them and it looks like layers! Really neat to me!
Okay check out my truck after all the snow had fallen, WAY COOL!! My lil pearl red Tacoma looked good with a blanket of white on it:)!! And in the last picture you can see that in the bed of the truck we got like 2in of snow, isn't that awesome!
I tried to get all the Dyer kids to pose for a picture on the stones/rocks in their backyard, but it was slippery and they ended up laughing and having fun just trying to get on them things:)!! So I just started snapping the pictures!
Then I got a good shot of John and Vicki! I like this picture of them! They had just built a fire in that barrel and unbelievably that was really warm from quite a distance!
Okay this is the camp fire that Phillip and John had been building fires in since we got there every night and now look at it with all the snow! I was so impressed with that! Then I just had to have a picture of Phillip and me in the camp fire! Like these pictures a lot!
Thought this was a cool head shot of Regan with a snowy background!
As we all started heading towards the front yard I caugh Noah cleaning out his car from all the snow and thought it was too funny! Had to have shots of it:)!!
We all thought taking all 5 dogs for a walk might be fun for everyone. We walked up and down the whole street looking at all the snow. It was a very nice walk! At the end of our walk Vicki and Mikayla decided the make snow angels!
Noah had to get in on some of that fun:)!!
Got some nice shots of Phillip cooking the fried turkey outside! Good thing he had brought his thermal clothing that the military issued him! That kind of stuff comes in very handy even off the job:)!! Normall they would be used for deployments and such.
The fried turkey Christmas dinner was definitely a highlight!! Everyone enjoyed that dinner so much that there was hardly any leftovers of anything! It was awesome! My favorite shot though was of Savannah eating the big turkey leg:)!!
Everyone ended up sitting around while looking at all the guns the kids got for Christmas that morning!
John was working on dishes after meal.
Christmas night when kids were in bed all the adults watched a movie and Sadie thought Vicki's robe was the warmest thing to snuggle up to at that point:)!! First she tried the rear and then when Vicki moved Sadie decided the chest would do!! Way too funny:)!!
The day after Christmas I thought we had lost Sadie. We couldn't find her anywhere for the longest time. Finally Phillip found her amungst our suit cases buried underneath a sweater:)!! It was so adorable! She must have been cold. I told Vicki about it and...
She came out with these huge treats for all the dogs! Each pup got one and boy did that warm Sadie up cause she chewed on that thing til the day we left. Of course all the dogs traded throughout that week though:)!!
Here's Tucker with his!
And Sadie with her's!
Phillip is such a good uncle! All three of the nieces latched onto him and wouldn't let go for nothing!! It was so funny! He dragged them all over the place and of course they laughed and laughed:)!!
Here's some different shots of Phillip and John playing the Wii together! Phillip really got into it:)!!
All the dogs got along wonderfully as you can see! Here's Sadie comfortably leaning on Sparkles!
And here's Sparkles and Tucker snoozin' cheek to cheek! Vicki and I think they had a crush on each other! You know how guys like the long legs, hehehe:)!!
By the end of the day everyone wanted some snuggle time! Savannah and Mikayla snuggled up with mommy!
I got to cuddle with Noah:)!!
For the twins' B-day, which is actually on the 3rd of Jan, but the party was on the 1st, Vicki and I made seperate cakes for them. Vicki made a delicious double layer chocolate cake for Noah, his fav. And I made a Red Velvet cake for Savannah, she was all excited about having a red cake. Although in the end the kids ended up liking the choc. the most and the adults seemed to have appreciated the red velvet a little more:)!! That was fine, it all got eaten before the weekend and everyone enjoyed it!
Noah makes a serious wish!
Noah blows out his candles!
Savannah makes her wish!
Savannah blew out her candles!
Noah seems to be thrilled with the Mudflap Transformer we got him!!
And Savannah made the perfect face for her appreciation of the Polly Pocket Car we got her!!
Here's a great shot of Noah in his full Transformer costume his parents got him for his B-Day!! So cute!
Noah tried to put his Transformer mask on Uncle Phillip while laughing:)!!
Savannah showed off her new fuzzy pink sweater Phillip and I got her! She's such a ham!
This is the results of the cakes by the end of the party:)!! I think they were well recieved!
Alyssa decided that Sadie needed to be crowned with one of the doll crowns at the end of the party and it was so cute! Poor Sadie was not too impressed, but we got a kick out of it:)!!
Regan stayed underneath Ron's feet while everyone played games after the party. I guess he thought he was protected from everyone there, who knows!! It was precious though!
On our down days when we didn't make any plans to do anything we all played board games, read, or played on the Wii. Of course we watched movies too, but playing together was the best! We brought our remotes from our Wii so we could play 4 people at a time on their Wii and that was awesome! I got a Shrek game for the Wii for Christmas from the Shop party on base and we played that with 4 people and man we laughed more than anything, so so so much fun:)!! Regan on the other hand decided he had worked long enough keeping us entertained and was too pooped to do anything else, hehehe!! He doesn't let me take many pics so I am thrilled to have this shot of my old doggy!!
On the last Monday of our trip we drove out to Cracker Barrel for lunch, one of our whole family's favs and while driving I had to take a couple shots of John n Vicki's street with the bridge and of the sides of the road with all the snow! The second shot of the bridge looks like a post card to me, love it!! And I thought the stone walls on the sides of the road looked so cool! And you can see the snow falling in the pictures too!
The bridge was so pretty with all the snow that I convenced Phillip to go back to it and take pictures of us once we came back from town. I took one of the creek first and then one of us. Breath taking scenery!!
Vicki took this picture of me cause she thought it was so cute to see 3 of the 5 dogs surrounding me while I was reading on the couch one night! You can only see paws of Sparkles (Dalmation) and most of the body of one of the pugs, and the other pug is above me on the back of the couch! It was cute when I realized it!
The last picture I have is of Phillip's new hat rack that his parents got him for Christmas. He actually got it up the day after we got back home so I took a shot of it to show off how nice it looks. No more hats laying around hopefully:)!! We both really like it on our closet door too! It's a perfect spot. Thanks again Mom~n~Dad Dyer!!
We had an awesome vacation and can't wait to go back! Loved all the time we spent with all of Phillip's side of the family so much! I'll get to see my side this coming weekend:)!
You certainly had a big time! Wow! So much going on - am sure everyone really enjoyed themselves.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting. Have a great New Year.