All I want for Christmas is .. my other front tooth

Christmas breakfast

Pop pop gets lots of help from the grandkids while making Christmas breakfast.

Christmas Hats!

Another favorite tradition... funny hats!

Girls!

This was Moyra's first Christmas. Clara adores "her baby". The rest of us are pretty fond of her too :)

Clara likes to twirl in her Christmas dress.

Moyra and Aunt Tina

Moyra and her daddy

stocking hunt

The (mostly) annual stocking hunt! This is always one of our favorite traditions at dad & jenny's.

Each kid/parent team has to find their stockings by following clues left by a clever elf :)

Look!

James CAN smile for photos!

Little Santa's

Merry Christmas from Aidan and Clara.

Christmas 2009

A little out of order, but better late than never.

Here are some pictures of Christmas with the Cooks.

Aidan and Brandon sneaking cookies...they were hiding under the eave of the island and eating them :)

Clara with her new "house" in the background. It's a Disney Princess kitchen but she calls it her house.

Xmas monkeys

We (finally) decorated the Christmas tree tonight. We continue the tradition of finishing off the tree with monkeys... yes, monkeys. Instead of tinsel, we use barrels of monkeys to decorate.

Here is some video of the kids monkeying around as the finish it up.

Decorating the tree

All the kids, plus Nachite, helped decorate the Christmas tree tonight. Clara helped and "branched" out from her usual one or two branches. She figured out that the ornaments can go all around the tree. When she wanted something to go up higher she would take it to Devlin and say "high".

Decorating the tree at mom's

Sunday night we decorated ONE of the trees at Mom's house - the Santa Tree - with the kids plus Charlie, Susan, Victoria and Sophia. Lots of fun was had all around. The kids 'specially enjoyed the ladder for putting the ornaments on the top.

Clara's new haircut

Me and Clara

Aidan making sure the tree had total coverage, top to bottom.

Devlin and Clara goofing

Nana + Kids

Brandon working on his branch

Clara inspecting....

Aidan..love those dimples!

Aidan and Brandon double-checking the coverage from the bottom-up!

Dec 23rd

Here are some pictures from Christmas at our house with Dad & Jenny

Clara's first (and only) mini-dress

Xmas at Mom's

Some pictures from christmas at Mom's house