our christmas cards 2010

This year I could not decide on one picture or even one card for that matter so we sent out 3 different cards.

I hope your holiday is filled with the love of family, the company of good friends and the laughter of children!

Merry Christmas, Kristin

santa visits the phillips house

During our Christmas party at Rob & Libby's house Santa stopped by for a visit. The kids were so excited and could hardly believe that Santa was there to read them a story and pass out gifts!

the kids coming down the stairs to see Santa

he read them a funny story about a bird in Santa's beard

a group picture of all the kids

time for the big girls to take a picture with Santa

"I saw mommy kissing Santa......"

the grandma's wanted a picture too

a little train time before bed

christmas card photos 2010

Taking advantage of the sunshine the other day I went into the backyard and took a few pictures of the kids for our Christmas card. As you can see some of them are goofy but I think I managed to capture a few good ones!

picture perfect

Here it is, Ethan's 1st Grade school picture....
and I must say all the hours I made him practice in the mirror paid off! NO goofy smile and his eyes were open :) Too bad I only ordered 6 wallets....oh well guess I'll have to get Christmas photos taken this year!

trick-or-treat

Aunt Mimi & Nana stopped by the house to see the kids is their costumes before the big night!

Rylee & Gracie up to no good

we couldn't let the girls eat with their costumes on, now could we?

Ethan & Scotty playing monopoly

cute little Kinley eating monster cupcakes

As you can see Kinley did not want to stand with the kids for a picture

Our dragonfly, cowgirl, race car driver & cowboy

Ryder & Ethan

Gracie & Rylee

Katie & her girls

the kids pile on Scott before we head out

and this is how daddies go out for Halloween...with drinks in hand! ( yes Jake is wearing his cowboy costume too)

halloween

my.little.buckaroos

halloween.2010

monster cupcakes

I found this article in a magazine for making monster cupcakes about 2 months ago and I knew I just had to make them for Halloween this year! So I shopped every store and finally found all the candy I needed to make these little creatures. After spending 30 minutes on the first cupcake I enlisted the kids to help decorate the other 59 cupcakes.

If you know me you know I take pictures of everything and wouldn't you know it my battery was dead on my camera so I had to use the kids' camera for the first few pictures. But that's OK cause it gave me more time to actually decorate with the kids.

They turned out great! However they don't travel very well so next year I'm going to have the Halloween party at my house :)