Christmas In Hughes

This past weekend we went to Hughes to visit Laurie's parents for Christmas. This year they bought 4 Wheelers and Lindsey LOVED riding on them. She even got to drive!!! (and, yes, those are ear muffs on Brownie the dog in the picture above!)

Christmas At Mi Mi and Grand Dad's

We went to Lindsey's MiMi and Grand Dad's Christmas night. We ate a TON and got a TON of gifts as always. My dainty princess with her Storm Trooper helmet.
Lindsey and Anna with their Great Grandmothers.
Lindsey gets new "big girl" luggage. (no more Dora!)

Anna's first driving lesson.

Lindsey puts her 2008 ornament on the tree.

Darla helps Anna put her's on the tree since she's a little small to do so.

Lindsey's cousin Anna says "Dog"

Merry Christmas!!!

The family (we tried to pick up Kramer but he didn't want to be touched!)

The stocking...

Kramer's presents

Bakugan

WOW!!!

Lindsey using her new headphones and playing an new DS game.

My beautiful Nerf dart-shooting Storm Trooper.

Lindsey waited until 7am to get up for Christmas. I was SO pleased we got to "sleep in." She came in bed and said "I have a bunch of presents. I must have been good. They're all wrapped in green." She spent all Christmas day playing : We all sat down and played her new Disney DVD game; Lindsey and I ran around the house shooting each other with her Nerf Dart game; and as I am writing this, Lindsey is in the second hour of playing Madagascar 2 on the Wii.

Christmas Eve 2008

Lindsey's Great Grandmother

The entire family

This year my mother's family had Christmas at my brother's house. Here are some pictures of Lindsey and others.

Anna On Christmas Eve

Lindsey's cousin Anna was so funny on Christmas eve. She was just talking and babbling... it was so cute!

Lindsey's School Christmas Party

On the last day before Christmas break Lindsey had her school Christmas party. Of course this meant the kids ate tons of sugar! However, they were really well behaved. All Lindsey wanted to eat were brownies. I tried to get her to eat an apple slice that had the peel on it, but I didn't know she didn't like apples with peels..... it made her start gagging (she does the same thing with peanuts... we don't know why). But luckily she kept everything down.... and made then I felt bad because I was trying to get her to eat something healthy on a day she could eat junk! By the way, it was also pajama day... that's why they are all in their pj's.

Lindsey Has Her First Sleepover

Lindsey asked us to have a sleepover and, of course, wanted to invite most of the school. But we limited it to inviting over 6 of her friends... so we had 7 8-year-olds in our house. I thought it was going to be crazy, but it really wasn't that bad. I thought all the girls were pretty well behaved.

Lindsey Loves The Wii!

Lindsey loves her new Wii. She got up Sunday morning before 8:00am and started playing. It was funny watching her. In this video she was boxing.... it wore me out watching her! We've told her we're going to limit her time on it, and We've already had to do that!

Christmas Parade And State Capitol Lighting

The Christmas parade and the State Capitol had their lighting ceremony this weekend. Mimi was in town for Lindsey's birthday party and got to go to the parade with us. Chuck, Annette, and Robert were also there.

Lindsey's 8th Birthday Party

Uncle Kevin and Cousin Anna

Claire and Gracie

Lindsey speeds by

Claire

Mary, Cecillea, and Kyra

Lindsey falls... but gets right back up!

Carlton, Kathy, and Ryan.

Justin or Benjamin.... I cannot tell which one. They are twins!

Lindsey had her 8th birthday party at the skating rink again. She had her 6th birthday party there. All the kids had a blast and Lindsey has turned into a pretty good skater!