Caidan at Christmas

It was so exciting to have Caidan here for Christmas and I got in all the cuddle time I could with the little man!

The Partridge Christmas

Christmas Eve is always spent with Keith's mom since it is her birthday. And Christmas night is spent at his grandparents' house. This year was really exciting because Keith's sister was here for Christmas--the first time since we've been married and his aunt, uncle, and cousin from NJ were here too!

Uncle Mark--lives in NJ
Nana (Keith's Grandma) and Mom P.
Mom and me
Brandi--cousin from NJ
Chanelle--cousin from NJ
Aunt Chalise--from NJ and Pops (Keith's Grandpa)

Tiffy (Keith's sister, lives in NYC)
Uncle Chipper
Aunt Bea
Theo--cousin

Keith and I have most of his family hooked on the Wii and I think everyone expects us to bring it every time we come over!

The Green Family Christmas

Christmas morning and early afternoon were spent at my parents' house. And making it extra special this year was having Chris, Kalla, and Caidan with us.

The Ronning family---Caidan was so adorable in his little Christmas outfit.

Here is Caidan and me opening his presents...I did all the work and he had all the fun!
This is the official Green family photo...Caidan and Seth are busy looking at the dog running around.
Here re all the kids and grandchild...this I think is a new tradition.

And the two cutest little elves Santa had this year!

More Christmas Highlights

So opening presents was fun and there were lots of surprises!
Me opening scrapbook supplies...how did Keith know that's what I wanted? Keith opening his robe.Keith wearing his robe and looking at his new CD.This was Seth's idea of opening presents...eating the paper. He eventually realized that the paper did not taste too good.Zach opening his new slippers. This was my unexpected and surprise present: a paper rack. After putting it together--a chore--I put in all the paper and I love it!This was my favorite gift...a sewing machine! I had an idea I was getting this, but there was not a big enough present under the tree. About an hour after opening presents I came back downstairs and lo and behold there was a big box under the tree...opened it and was so excited to see this inside. Have already put it to good use and will post pics of projects in the next couple days!

Christmas Gifts Given

I hope everyone had a great Christmas! I will post all of the Christmas pictures in different posts over the next couple days so as not to overwhelm.

Today I will post the rest of the pictures of items I made as gifts!

For mom, I made the 2007 pages for each of our albums (last year I presented her with an album of each child with a page of each year since they were born). This year I had to create new albums for Caidan and for Seth, and then made albums for the Ronning family and the Partridge family with the idea of adding new pages each year!For my mom and my Mimi and Papa I made personalized calendars with photos of family members.This personalized monogram was for Mom.

Merry Christmas

I just want to wish you all a Merry Christmas! I will post pictures and details sometime after the holiday!

Christmas Gifts

So as gifts this year, I have made quite a few. I will post pics of the ones already given and post the others after Christmas!

At work we did the whole secret santa thing and I was giving gifts to one of my directors, who was my former director at my old center...so I know her pretty well. So on Friday we gave the "BIG" gifts and I gave her this frame along with a gift card. The frame was easy...8x10 paper with a few embellishments and a mat for her to place the photo Christmas of her two kids.
She loved it and I loved it!