Christmas Eve

All dressed up in our Christmas outfits for church: The kids really DID NOT want to take pictures. We were very lucky to come out with one pretty decent. Dominic just wanted to dance so he kept coming out blurry and Autumn didn't want to do anything so she ended up crying. This is the next best: And thank you Nana and Pop Pop for our new PJ's to wear Christmas Eve!!

Christmas Day

This year the kids definately knew what was going on. Dominic was opening presents so fast Autumn still had six to open when Dom was done. There is just no way I can post pictures of the kids with ALL of the presents (I'm sorry, but that would be the longest blog ever) so here are a few good shots:

Autumn giving Elmo hugs: Reading her new book: Some male bonding: Dominic and Daddy's fort: Dominic and his marshmellow shooter. We had to help him at first, but it didnt take him long to figure out a way to shoot it by himself. Thanks Uncle Jason! :)

Autumn in half of her Rose Petal Cottage:

The whole play house:

Playing with Dom's new racetrack:

separation anxiety

Dominic has always really liked cars, so we didnt really think it was odd when he started to constantly carry them around. But then they had to start watching him at the table while he ate and even while he went potty. Now I think maybe its starting to get out of control. The other day this is how many cars he had to carry with him through out the entire day: To say it was a hassle is an understatement! Ha ha. So if anyone has an recommendations on children and separation anxiety with matchbox cars it would be appreciated!

Christmas cookies

Thursday we made our Christmas cookies. We only made cut-outs because then the kids could help and we wouldn't have a million cookies to eat.

Autumn's take on decorating is shake it as hard as I can and hope the sprinkles get on the cookies. She had sprinkles everywhere, in her hair and all:

There is only one picture of Dominic decorating because he told me he couldn't take anymore. When I asked him why not he said: Mommy, you take the pictures all the times. I just cant! I managed to get one while he was tasting them though:

The River Walk

Clarksville has a River Walk downtown that they light up for Christmas. They covered the walkway with lighted figures and covered all the trees. The kids have been wanting to check it out since they put them up. A lighted tunnel: The kids in the tunnel:

Santa!

Jeremy had off on Monday so we ran up to the mall in Nashville to do some shopping and let the kids see santa. Once Jeremy found out that Bass Pro Shop had a santa they weren't allowed to go see any other santa. I'm thinking that was just a good excuse to go to Bass Pro Shop. :) Dominic was ready this year and ran right up to him. Santa didn't even get a chance to say anything to him before Dom was telling him that he wanted cars. Autumn actually surprised me too and ran right to him. But we made her wait to go second so that she could see Dominic with santa first, so that might have helped. I was all prepared for a melt down that thankfully never came!

A Gingerbread house

Last night we decided to put together our gingerbread house. Waiting for momy and daddy to get everything ready:

Icing time!:

Dominic's snowman:

Autumn's gingerbread man:

Decorating the house:

The final product!:

Winter craft

Well, the title should be an attempt at winter crafts. Haha. I am not crafty in the least, but try to do some with the kids. So me and Dominic made some snowflakes the other day. Dominic's turned turned out pretty good, especially since he rarely gets to cut things. He was so excited and proud:

The Christmas Parade

Last saturday we went to the Clarksville Christmas Parade. ( yes, i know! I'm very late at getting this up! But I do have a very good excuse! ;) Finals!!!!). We weren't exactly sure of where the route was so we guessed and ended up exactly where everyone else decided to watch the parade. Which figures. haha. But it turned out to be a good mistake because they had the chorus from Austin Peay State University singing in front of the courthouse which we happened to be right across the street from. So that was a nice bonus while we waited for the parade. It was really cold though. The kids had fun but they definately looked happy to get in the car when we left. This is as good of a picture I could get of the kids. They really were not feeling getting their pictures taken. At least they were both looking here: I really wanted to get a picture of a few minutes later when they really got bored and their gloves became weapons that they used to hit eachother with. I wont bore you with ALL the pictures I took of the parade, but these are some favorites: This guy was popping wheelies the whole time:

And Santa!

Dinner on the General Jackson

Since Jeremy's unit is for wounded soldiers they are regularly given tickets to give out to shows, sports games, concerts, all sorts of stuff. Some are given for the soldiers and some given to the leadership. We were able to get a pair of tickets for a dinner and show on the General Jackson showboat. The boat holds lots of different events and takes you down the Cumberland River. This is the website if anyone wanted to check it out: http://www.generaljackson.com/site/ The show we went to see was called NashVegas. There were impersonators of different singers from Vegas shows. Passing downtown Nashville: The Tina Turner impersonator: Elton John impersonator: Elvis impersonator: I took this picture off the website because I wasn't able to get a good one from where we had to line up and there were to many people around when we left. But I had wanted to show what the boat looked like:

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I doubt that anyone from this business will ever read this but on the off chance:

I just wanted to leave a thank you Jack Turner of Jack Turner and Associates for being so generous to all of us from the WTU (101st Airborne) that night at the show