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This is per the request of a great friend!! This is a tour of my house during the holidays. It is a little messy, but just lived in!! Enjoy our decorations!!
Our Christmas Reindeer, which Ford calls a camel!

Artwork by the most precious two year old artist

Kitchen bar

Dining Room

Ford's tree, used to be Daddy's

My collection of carolers

Fireplace reindeer

Living room with our beautiful tree!

All the presents!!

Fireplace in the den, not lit at the moment!

Guess who started solids...

I think Christmas is his favorite holiday...

Ford loves everything about Christmas. He especially loves the tree and all the lights on the houses. The one thing he does not like is sitting on Santa's lap. I have no doubt that he will love getting presents from him though! He has a Buzz Lightyear ornament and a Lightning McQueen one and just loves to hang them in new places on the tree oh about every five minutes! He is obsessed! It is pretty darn cute!

Moving his ornaments

Looking out the window at the lights outside our house

Getting ready for Santa...

This year for Christmas we will travel to Virginia!! That is where I grew up. I cannot wait to see my grandparents, more family, and my very bestest friends that I hav known my whole life!!! We are so excited. We are a little apprehensive about the drive, but we will make it! We have finally finished Santa shopping! Ford is going to love it! We got Finlee a few things but shedoes not really know any better yet. We have been busy busy! We went to see Santa this weekend. Ford said he would not cry this time, but he did! As sad as he was, he was so cute about it! We had two birthday parties today. So needless to say we are tuckered out!! This is my last week of work and then Jolee and I are both off for two weeks. He took his vacation then because he had a lot left for this year and had to use it before the year ended. We are going to have such a good vacation!!!

A little update...

Jolee's granddad passed away Sunday morning. It was sort of expected but still a shock. We received the call Sunday morning right before we left for church. The sermon could not have been more perfect that day. He was such a great person. He was in a nursing home for the latter part of his life for Alzheimer's. But he seemed to always ask about that little blond boy "Ford" everytime Jolee's mom went to see him. We are sad that he never got the opportunity to meet Finlee or our niece Willa, but we know that he is seeing them now as he watches down. He will be missed dearly! Ford will always have a little part of him as they have the same middle name.
On another note, Jolee and I went Santa shopping for the kids Saturday night. My Aunt came and watched the kids. We had a blast. There are so many things that we want to get for the kids, especially Ford. We had so much fun buying him the things he points out daily that he wants. We cannot wait till Christmas morning. We got Finlee a cabbage patch doll and ofcourse some little girl toys since all she has is Ford's baby toys. We wanted to girly it up. We decide to start a tradition for her and get her a cabbage patch doll each Christmas and then take her to the cabbage patch dollland in Cleveland when she is a little older. We are so enjoying watching the relationship between Ford and Finlee grow. He adores her! He will randomly go and talk to her, kiss her, tell her he loves her. It just makes my heart melt. That is the best Christmas present that I could get, knowing he is well adjusted to our precious addition! As for visiting Santa, we went to Chick-Fil-A for lunch the other day and Santa happened to be there. We decided to try and get their pictures done since it was free and see how it went. Finlee did great however Ford cried and cried!!!! We will not be paying to get his pictures done. I have the one from there. I think we may take Finlee and get her "First Christmas picture" with him but Ford said he was done!! HAHA! Such a rough and tumble boy does not like to be with anyone he does not know. He is going through a big mommy phase! I love it! Because Finlee is obsessed with Daddy!!! Anyways, I will post some pictures soon. My sweet husband got me a new camera for Christmas, the professional kind and Iam loving it! I am definitly annoying Ford. He says "Mommy, no more say cheese". But I kep making him smile! He is such a perfect subject!!!

I love taking pictures! I cannot take enough!

I love taking pictures! It is a huge hobby of mine! And ofcourse my family is my main interest to shoot! Here are some recent pictures of what we have been up to. We put our tree up! Ford stops in the middle of hanging decorations and says, Mommy, I so excited!" We are beyond excited to share this with him. He is so innocent and precious. He is just tickled pink about everything. He cannot wait for Santa. We are also going to try and tell him that Santa is going to take his pacis to other babies. We are going to put them in his stocking and in turn Santa will take them and leave lots of goodies in his stocking. Wish us luck. It is such a comfort thing for him!!