Suprise the cousins are here!! and bobo and janeese!

My Liney girl and her little sour puss face!

 The crew!! What a fabulous holiday we had with the crew in town.  The kids got along WONDERFULLY, I don't think there was a single squabble between them!  IT was glorious to see them all get along so well and have fun together.  It also makes my heartache though knowing they live so far away with no sign of coming back any time soon!

My sweet boy, he is getting so big and is happy, quick witted little boy!

Caroline throwing sticks for the pup!

Now there is my happy girl!  She is starting to look like such a big girl!

These two are thick as thieves!   They are just so dang cute I could eat them up, or steal Reesie!!

Santa was good this year.

Here's what Ryan scored, a bean bag chair(which I found from a awesome website that sells LoveSac seconds for cheap, cheap, cheap.), metal Tonka truck(that I scored on Black Friday), and his coveted Siddeley Spy Jet from Cars 2!  Do you see anything hiding back there??

And here's what Caroline got: Tiana doll and dress(a fabulous Black Friday find), high chair and craddle(painted to match her room), and her coveted baby doll. 

Running in, I missed little miss, she was too speedy!

It didn't take them long to find the puppy Santa left.  Ryan wanted to name her Monster Truck!  Well that wasn't going to happen, good thing I had a name waiting for her!

This was about as excited Caroline got, she wasn't so sure about the sharp little puppy teeth and sharp puppy claws!

Ryan loved her! 

MY FAVORITE PICTURE OF THE MORNING!!!

Playing with the pup and toys, perfect morning!

Daddy brushing ponies for his baby girl!

The plane, the plane, Santa brought the plane!!!

You think by her expression she was a little excited to get her Princess and the Frog Barbie?

 At the beginning of December we took the kids on a Polar Express ride.  It was a total hit and Ryan has asked several times to do it again.

 Waiting to board the train.  There was a bunch of things to do outside but it was raining so straight to the tent we went!

 Ryan went up to the stage for a sing-a-long, and then scampered back to us!

 Me and my Liney girl!

 Daddy and Ryan about to board the Polar Express.

 Looking out the windows with their tickets in hand. We saw an actual herd of rein"deers" run past the train.  I think they were training to pull Santa's sleigh! :)

 So Magical

 Daddy needed his ticket punched too!

Beautiful old train.

 Our sweet little family.

 I can't believe she is almost three, where has it gone? 

The elf for our car of the train.  He sang songs and interviewed each child.

Santa Claus was making his grand appearance.

Jolly Ol' St. Nick with my cute little kiddos!

 Caroline revealing that she wanted a baby doll.

 And like that he was gone and the train ride was over.

Christmas time at our house was BUSY!  The kids had a great(short)Christmas program at school.  The first question that was asked,"Why do we celebrate Christmas" and a child screams out,"TO GET PRESENTS!!!!" and that child was MINE!  Yep a really proud moment!  I promise he knows the meaning of Christmas

 Me and another lady were in charge of Ryan's class party.  I did all the decorations.  I love putting it all together and not having to clean my house in order to throw a party!  It is a win win for me!

 Snowman chair backers and the centerpiece snowmen

 Pom pom snowballs for the door way.

 We played a fun snowman game.  And I bought the Insta Snow, and let the kids watch it extand and the n play with it!  It was a hit for sure!

 My sweet boy!

If Jared has been working alot and not home a bunch Caroline tends to get a little grouchy towards him and won't have much to do with him.  So the other night we had that situation going on and I suggested she paint daddy's toe nails!  She was all over that idea and it was smooth sailing after that! :)

What a patient dad!