Christmas Eve and Christmas 2011

Well, I can't get this to type above my pictures. I also couldn't change any red eye. I will try to come back and journal about everything later, right now I just wanted to get the pictures up, it's late.


Eating candy canes on Christmas Eve.
Sharing music and movies on Christmas Eve
All clean and ready for Christmas
Cute clean baby girl
Cute clean Emery
Kids and Trigger(temporary pet, we were trying to see if he would be a fit for our family)
Pretty Tree
Presents and Tree
Kids and tree again
Christmas morning breakfast
Homemade hot chocolate, cinnamon roll cake, and breakfast ham, egg, and hashbrown casserole
All dressed up for church
Cute Christmas kids

Being Silly
Cam and his laughing shark
Bailey getting her smoothie maker
Cam and presents from Grandma and Grandpa Beebe
Bailey and present from Grandma and Grandpa Beebe
Cam with his drums
Addie and doll from Grandma and Grandpa Beebe
Joelle with her baby from Grandma and Grandpa Beebe
Kids with cool bike from Grandma and Grandpa Fox
Excited Cam
Addie with her new I-Pod charger/alarm clock
Happy Bailey with art supplies and voucher for ear pearcing
Joelle loves her new laughing Cookie Monster.
Joelle a little afraid and not so sure how she feels about Cookie Monster, now that he's laughing and rolling around.
Bailey with presents from Grandma and Grandpa Beebe
Emery and her cool elephant
Joelle trying out the cool bike
Emery's little feet poking out from under her huge present
Emery excited about her barbie dolls and camper
Addie teary eyed over her new pet shops. She'd been hoping for a giraffe (her favorite animal) forever.
Joelle with clothes from Grandma and Grandpa Beebe.

Cool rug from my parents.
Addie opening up games from Grandpa and Grandma Fox.
Emery holding her new baby doll that Grandma Beebe made.
Chase happy with his new wallet, I'm glad he made the effort to look surprised :)
Emery excited about her Agent P slippers.
Cam and Chase flying Cam's helicopter.

Cool helicopter that lit up. Unfortunately, the batteries wouldn't hold a charge after a week, so we took it back. We got our money back and used it along with the Christmas money Cam got and other money he'd saved up to buy a Nintendo 3DS.
Jello Pretzel Dessert
Overcooked Ham
Yummy Green Bean Casserole
I love these rolls :)

So, as you can tell we had a pretty good Christmas. I was fortunate to have found some presents that we had in storage for 3 years which helped on Christmas costs this year. I also am thankful to family for helping make our Christmas fun with fun presents and Christmas money. Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Fox, Grandma and Grandpa Beebe, Great Grandma Fox, and Great Grandma Black! The other presents from us and "Santa" came from good deals at Costco and Goodwill. I was amazed at all that I was able to get with some great deals. Chase gave me my present a little early on Christmas Eve. He wasn't supposed to get me anything else because he'd already gotten me a Zumba Wii game for an early Christmas present. He got me a really nice camera! I even cried a little, I think the last time I cried over a gift was the song he wrote for me when I was pregnant with Addie. I really needed a new camera. The old camera was spazzing out and I had already lost several pictures, which made me sad. It's important for me to capture memories for my family.

Anyway, so this is basically how the day went... woke up very early on Christmas, ate breakfast, and went to church. When we got home we opened presents and then later that day ate dinner. We got to skype with Chase's family which was also fun. It was great to finally have our own Christmas again in our own home. I had a lot of fun getting out all of our decorations and putting them up with the kids. In fact, I just barely took down all our decorations this week. I was tempted to leave the tree up and just decorate for every holiday. I also think we need to put in carpet in the living room, I lost count of how many decorations we lost from falling and breaking on the tile. We hope everyone else had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year too!

Chris Madrid's and River Walk

My favorite Burger Ever!!!

We received some Christmas money from Chase's Grandma Fox. So, over Christmas break we decided to take the kids to San Antonio. We explained that it was Great Grandma Fox's present to them. First we went out to eat at one of our favorite restaurants, Chris Madrid's and had some awesome burgers and cheese fries. I'm normally not much of a burger person, but I love the cheese burgers at Chris Madrid's. They are delicious and huge! Then we drove over closer to downtown and parked and walked over to the River Walk. It turned out that the night we picked was right before one of the play off games being held in San Antonio, so it was crazy crowded with football players, band members, cheer leaders, and fans. We walked down the River Walk and enjoyed all the beautiful lights. I was paranoid that we'd lose a kid or that someone would fall into the river. We had to wait a little longer for the boat tour because they had taken football players and band members on VIP tours. It was kind of cool though because one of the bands performed while they were on the boat as we were walking by. The kids had an awesome time and it was fun to be able to get out and do something as a family that we normally wouldn't do. Thank you Grandma Fox :)
Bailey getting ready to take a bite.
Addie, a little blurry, taking everything off that she doesn't like...as usual.
Cam in serious concentration mode, digging in.
Not sure what this expression is about.
Chase and his mammoth burger.
As you can see, Emery likes to dissect her food, and will usually eat everything on the inside first, then eat the outside bread. You can't tell very well from the picture, but it looked like she was sporting a beard because her little mouth was poking through the middle where she bit.
Messy Joelle enjoying her yummy food.
On one of the bridges on the River Walk.














Kids on the boat tour.
Chase and Joelle on the boat tour.




Kids looking at lights on the boat tour.
Emery and Joelle playing and being silly.
One of the buildings on the River Walk tour all lit up at the top with the flag. It didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped, but it looked pretty cool.