Christmas Lunch At Our Cousin's New House

After we had Christmas at our house, we went to our cousin's new house to celebrate with my Dad's side of the family. Joe, Danelle, and Riley just moved back home a few weeks ago and they decided to have the family over for Christmas so we could all see their new home. Riley got a Nintendo DS for Christmas like Lindsey did, so they spent the afternoon playing thier games together.

Christmas 2007

The whole family... including Kramer!



Lindsey suprised.

Lindsey and her big horse (she's already tried to ride it)

Gymnastics Barbie

Lindsey and all her dinosaurs


On Lindsey's 8th Christmas, she woke up at 6am!! It was still dark outside. She ran into our bedroom and said "I need a drink and I think Santa's already come because there are more presents under the tree now." I asked her to go back to sleep and she said OK. That lasted about 15 minutes and she insisted we get up. She ripped open presents... I asked her what her favorite gift was and she said "all of them." But if I were to guess, I would say her Nintendo DS. We had to rip her nose out of it many times today! Below is a video of her opening the gift that she kept asking for.......

Christmas Eve At Memomma's

On Christmas Eve we also went to Memomma's to see more family. Lindsey got a bunch of Hannah Montana stuff there.

Christmas at Me Me and Grand Dad's 2007

Lindsey helps Me Me

Lindsey digs in!!!

Grannie grins for the camera.

The whole family

On Christmas Eve we went to Me Me's and Granddad's house. We ate lunch there with them and Kevin and Darla and Grannie. After lunch, we all exchanged gifts. Probably Lindsey's favorite gift there was a digital camera for kids that she got. She took a TON of pictures with it.

Christmas 2006

Christmas morning Lindsey didn't get up too early.... we got to sleep until 7:45am! When she got up she was greeted by a 4 foot inflatable santa and a bunch of gifts. Her big gift from Santa was a HUGE Barbie doll house complete with an elevator. She also got a robopet, more moon sand, and a Little Mermaid carriage. After we opened gifts we spent the rest of the morning and afternoon putting gifts together and playing with them.

Christmas Eve 2006

On Christmas eve we went to my brother's house to celebrate the holiday with my mother's family. Lindsey got one of the gifts she had been wanting for months... Moon Sand! After my brother's house, we went to MeMe and Granddad's house for a HUGE dinner and to open presents with my parents. Lindsey got a TON of toys including a racecar track, a dinosaur mountain, and and easy bake oven. (as you can tell she is very well rounded with boys and girl's toys!) We're going to have to move to another house because of all the stuff she got. She won't be bored for months!

Channel 4 Christmas Show

This year channel 4 decided to revive an old tradition at the station. It's a show where the children of employees get to come sit on santa's lap and get a gift and it's made into a show that we air on Christmas. Our weekend meteorologist, Jason, acted as the host. I was afraid that Lindsey wasn't going to sit in santa's lap because she never has before. But for the first time in her life, she did! The stuffed animal you see in the picture is a dog that she recently got at Build-a-Bear workshop that she INSISTED on taking with her to sit on Santa's lap. She actually asked if she could go say goodbye to him when it was all over, so we did. Then, when Laurie was leaving, Lindsey kept looking on the roof of our station and asking "are his reindeer up there?" For those who live in the area, you can watch the show at noon on Christmas day.

Lindsey's Kindergarten Christmas Party

On the last day of school Lindsey's classroom had a Christmas party. I got to leave work to go to it. Her teacher put me to work when I got there. I got to help the kids make Christmas wreaths. That was an adventure! The other things they got to do were make a reindeer Christmas ornament, make a bookmark with their picture on it, make a garland out of berries, and of course, EAT!

Making A Gingerbread House

This past Saturday our cousin Emily came over to spend some time with Lindsey. She ended up making a gingerbread house with Lindsey and Laurie.

Christmas Parade 2006

On Saturday we went to the Little Rock Christmas parade. It was COLD... in the upper 30's. You can see Lindsey was bundled up. She didn't complain at all. She just couldn't wait to see the floats and marching bands. This year she became a professional at running out in the street to get candy. After the parade, we stuck around for the lighting of the state capitol and the fireworks.

Decorating The Tree

Thanksgiving weekend it's a family tradition to decorate our tree. Lindsey loved this. She really helped this year putting many, many ornaments on the tree.

Decorating The House

Thanksgiving weekend we decorated the house for Christmas. Lindsey decided she wanted to help me put lights on the outside of the house. That lasted for about 10 minutes and then she got bored. She went over to a friend's house to play!

Lindsey Dances At Sugar Plum Ball

Tonight Lindsey and I went to the Sugar Plum Ball that benefits cancer patients. Lindsey had a lot of fun. Most of the night she didn't want to dance with me. She wanted to dance with our morning meteorologist's daughter, Cameron. She spent the night chasing her around! However, she did dance with me some. She kept asking me to throw her in the air.