Christmas Morning 2012

Various Pictures of Christmas Morning 2012

Christmas Morning Video 2012

Short video of Christmas morning.

Wahooo Santa Finally Made It!

Cookies, Milk, Note and Tattoo for Santa

Gracie made sure Santa was set with cookies, milk and she even wrote him a little letter and left him a tattoo...not sure what was up with the tat.  Oh...she also put a signature line at the bottom of the letter for Santa to sign.

Opening Stocking Stuffers - Christmas Eve 2012

Merry Christmas Pop Pop

Christmas Eve 2012

First things first...IT WAS ACTUALLY SNOWING AS THE KIDS OPENED THEIR STOCKING STUFFERS!  Our normal tradition on Christmas Eve is go open stocking stuffers and read Twas The Night Before Christmas. Last year I was kindly informed by my husband and and sons that they really were not into the whole reading of Twas The Night Before Christmas.  So me and my princess (ah...that would be Princess Gracie) read the story and the best part of the whole experience was "my princess read the entire story to me".  Below are some pics of the kids (yes that included Moosie) opening their stocking stuffers.

Christmas Eve...They Sleep

 Gracie - yes...still working on the whole sucking thumb thing....

My baby boy Jacob....

My Christmas Wish

Mom....

My Little Man

He never gets the recognition he deserves. Attached is a pic of our dog "Moosie" (aka "Moosie Baby").

Frosty The Snowman Holiday Dance Performance 2012

Me and two of my besties (Audra and Kori) attended Gracie's holiday dance performance last night "Frosty The Snowman". I took a video but it came out horrible, I was so disappointed...but I did manage to take some pics prior to the performance. See below:

 Gracie

 Mommy & Gracie

 Gracie & Kori-Lou

 Audra & Gracie

Mommy & Gracie

Wouldn't Be Christmas Without Snoopy and Woodstock

Way Back When...

A few pictures of me and my sister (Hollie) from back in the day when we were kids.

Jacob & Gracie decorating the Christmas tree without bickering and arguing? NEVER!

Still need to get a new topper.



National Pearl Harbor Rememberance Day

It's December....Seasons Greetings Family & Friends

McCurdy's - Picking and Cutting Down Our Christmas Tree

This was a first for the Clapper fam.  We (well "I") decided we were going to go and cut down our own Christmas tree this year. A friend highly recommended it and said it would be a wonderful experience. Anyone that knows my husband knows he was hating every minute of this but kept his thoughts to himself (LOL). We had a beautiful day (THANK GOD) and I think we did a pretty good job picking out a nice Christmas tree.

All five of us together at once - now that's a rarity!

 My boys!

 Me! My hands were cold...please don't think I was going to get down
on the ground and start sawing away because that was NOT gonna happen!

 My Gracie!

 My Jacob!

 My Georgie!

 Tree holding up hubby. Son doing all the work

 Hubby bitching and complaining. Son doing all the work.

 Prepping the tree to take home

 Getting ready to head home

 The fam!

Here she is...she's perfect and she smelled like citrus (it was called a "concolor" tree - I think...)