{Emily}

Emily is Jaedyns American Girl Doll.   She has taken such good care of Emily.  Jaedyn asked me one day if Emily could go to dance with her.  It was very cute, she got her all dressed up in the outfit Grandmom Dorothy bought for her and was so excited!!!

{Grandmom & Grand-dad Elder}

While on vacation in Annapolis, I tried to make a point to take a picture of each kid and Grandmom & Grand-dad.  It is something I usually forget to do, even though I have my camera out all the time.  Mission accomplished, and got some cute moments in the process.  I was going for the "un-posed" picture in most of these shots.

{Shrek the Halls Ice!}

After Christmas we went to Shrek the Halls Ice!.  This is an indoor area with 2 million pounds of larger-than-life colorful ice sculptures and 20-feet tall ice slides!  It is so cold inside the exhibit that they give you jackets to wear over your clothes.  I bundled up Bryn and carried her inside my jacket the entire time.  She kept nice and toasty.  It was very cool to see the Shrek characters larger than life and carved out of giant pieces of ice.  Adam and the big kids (including Tanner) slide down a 20 foot slide made entirely from ice.  It was very cool, and very cold!!

{Boat ride on the Bay}

On Christmas Eve, we took a boat ride on the bay to look at Christmas lights.  It was really fun, we had hot chocolate and the kids loved looking at the lights on the bay!

[All of us as we were getting ready to start the tour.]

[Sir Blinks a lot is impossible to get a good picture with.  Sorry Buddy!]

[Tanner LOVES hot chocolate (lets be honest, anything chocolate.) ]

[It was hard to get pictures of the lights, be we loved looking at them!]

{Grand-dad's Visit and Birthday}

Adams Dad & Step Mom came for a visit.  It is always nice to see them, the kids love having them here also.  It was Paul's (Adam's Dad) Birthday while he was here.  Of course we had to celebrate with a cake and candles.  We all sang Happy Birthday and the big kids helped him blow out his candles.  I've never had red velvet cake before (I know, I've been in the south over 6 years, and never tried it!)  It was way yummy!  

Afterwards, Grand-mom played "playdoh" with Tanner.  he loved it!

Magnetic Ballerina Dolls

For Christmas Jaedyn got Magnetic Ballerina's from her Granddad & Grandmom Elder.  She has been dying to play with them, so while Grandmom was in town she HAD to play them with Grandmom!

Grandmom Elder

We were lucky to see Adam's Step Mom last week.  She was in Atlanta on business and we were able to spend the day with her.  The kids were so excited to see her.  The kids love how she will play games with them, that mom doesn't.  Isn't that what Grandmom's are for?!!