Christmas Eve

For Christmas Eve, by tradition, we celebrate with the Pinti crew. We always have dinner, go to church, have Jesus' birthday cake, and then open more presents. We had a good time this year. It is always a challenge to get the whole gang together and then to keep it under control with 5 grand kids under 5! But we had yet another successful celebration....
Me and my three boys...










The Pinti boys...

And the wonderful grandparents...

Happy Bithday Jesus...

Christmas "morning" Eve

This year I had to work on Christmas morning (the benefits of being a RN!)so we celebrated Santa on Christmas Eve morning. Before bed we got all dressed in our Santa jammies and put out our Christmas cookies for Santa. Nolan picked blue sprinkles for Santa. The boys got all tucked into bed and Mike and I got everything ready. Christmas morning Nolan got up first and came into our bed. He crawled into bed as he does every morning and asked for cartoons. I began to think he forgot Santa came. He then very patiently asked "Did Santa come to my house last night?" So off we went to the living room. He was soooo excited to see all his new toys Santa brought. Carson on the other hand was beside himself that we woke him up so early for this nonsense! He got excited about a couple of presents but for the most part he just walked around his happy go lucky self! I look forward to next year as the boys will both be at a great age. Hope everyone had a great Christmas... I know we sure did!

Putting out cookies, looking for Santa, and showing off our new Christmas jammies...





I guess they were good little boys after all...

Decorating the tree...

This year the boys were at a great age for Christmas. After returning from West Virginia for Thanksgiving we always get out the tree and kick off the Christams season. Well, this year the boys did a little tree decorating and a lot of box playing. That was the highlight of decorating the tree was the big box it came in. They played and played in the box. They had so much fun. Nolan got into putting the ornaments on the tree. Poor guy (or poor tree)... He picked one spot to put all the ornaments. Everytime I would move one he would notice and tell me "not to move it he wanted it there!" He even put on his Santa hat.. he was so cute. Carson had fun redecorating the tree. What a mess having a toddler is with Christmas decorations?!?! The tree got put up and then put away with only a few broken ornaments. However by the end of the season my tree looked a hot mess with most of the lower half without ornaments. The joys of Christams with toddlers!

Family pictures...

Before the year got away from me I wanted to get our family pictures done. Aunt Jen found a local lady who did outside photos for a reasonable price. Lucy Parker Photography did our shoot. We had a fun time together just acting ourselves and the results were great. I can't wait to do a photo book of all our pictures to capture the memories of this time in our life.

The Pinti's 2009... Beware it is picture overload!!!!



















Can't wait to do it again next year to see how we have grown and changed...