Christmas Day 2011

Merry Christmas!!

Mr. Clete Cook woke us up at 2:30 AM Christmas morning, I managed to keep him wrangled in our bedroom until 4:30 AM, after that all hope was lost! We decided to go ahead and let him get into his loot and get the older boys up there when we could!

Our tree with Santa's additions!

We finally got the big boys up to come get their loot!

Poor little Tripp wound up at the Dr. when they opened at 1 PM!

The big boys with their new toy in the "mancave"

Daddy with his big present!

(haha I knew about this one for a long time, I was with MiMi when she got it framed!)

Christmas Eve 2011

Christmas Eve this year was so fun! MiMi and Pop came over at lunch time, MiMi and I prepared a wonderful Christmas Eve feast for everyone. We baked a ham, made potato salad, baked beans and macaroni-n-cheese. For dessert I fixed up a chocolate pie!! After we all ate it was time for the kids to open their 1 gift for the night, which after much begging from all parties involved, turned into 2 gifts! Unfortunately, little Tripp didn't make it through dinner, he was starting the early symptoms of an ear infection, BOOOOOOO!!!

Our tree with all the loot!!


Jackson with 1 of his gifts


Drew with 1 of his gifts

Britt with 1 of his gifts

Of course the man of the hour, Clete with 1 of his gifts. I think he actually talked us into letting him open 3!

To end the night, our tradition of Daddy reading "Twas the Night Before Christmas"

Just because it's Christmas!

Sweet, Sweet Babies!!

And we're JUMPING!!!

It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas!

I am so excited about Christmas this year! I am still in complete awe that God blessed us with another little Cook to celebrate it with! Not to mention the fact that this year I'm not puking every 10 minutes! I think last year we were lucky that we got the tree up and the stockings hung! This year however, I have gone all out! I have even managed to get a few gifts wrapped already, complete with my fancy bows!

Santa Clause is coming to town!

Clete in the sun room with the kids tree and his new Christmas Train! Granny surprised us with the new train on Saturday, Clete and Tripp love it!

I always put up a kids tree every year, it has all the ornaments that the kids have made throughout the years. I think that once Tripp begins making ornaments we will have to upgrade to a bigger tree! Like the commercial says, " No Mom ever turned down a homemade ornament"!

Tripp in his Santa hat hanging out with the stockings! He's so precious!