Christmas 2009

So everyone get excited...I am FINALLY posting Christmas pictures!! I considered skipping right over Christmas and just moving on, but this blog serves as a kind of a scrapbook for me, so here we are a month late posting Christmas pics. Oh well. Also, the order is not really correct, but we are just going to have to deal with it. :)

I have to start by saying that every year that I can remember as a kid at Christmas or Thanksgiving, my dad had my sister and I do a "Turkey Dance". Now you may think, "oh, I bet that's a funny looking dance." And you would be right. Because we would dance with the dead turkey that he was about to put in the oven. My dad would make up some crazy song about how Tom the Turkey was dead, and my sister and I would each hold a "hand" and make the Turkey dance. (And you thought YOUR family was weird!) Anyway, since having kids that dance with the actual dead turkey doesn't happen anymore because, well....the kids would probably be grossed out. Instead, this tradition has morphed into something more theatrical. For instance this year, the three little boys dressed up like Shepard's, my sister dressed like Mary, Katie was Jesus in the "manger", and my dad and uncle played the saw and the bones (yes, literally a saw and bones) while we all sang a Christmas song. After the Christmas song, the kids got down to a little John Denver. Anyway, after that LONG explanation...here are the pictures. (They are only from scene 2 - John Denver's "Thank God I'm a Country Boy". I didn't have my camera for the first part)

My mom and my aunt. Sisters or TWINS??? Sisters, but crazy, huh??

(she's thinking, "how did I end up in this crazy family??"

Whew. Now that that is over with - time for cake! Notice the contrast in how the three of them eat cake! :)

Some other random pics...

This is my new favorite picture. They are watching a "Big Green Rabbit" video on Dad's computer and they all three ROAR when the dinosaur in the movie does. So cute.

A few pictures from Christmas morning at home....

Nice, Casey. Thanks for smiling for the picture.

We also got to spend some time with Casey's family at Christmas. His oldest brother, Chris came to town from Texas. We had a lot of fun, and the boys loved their Uncle Chris!