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Tadd and I were so happy that we were able to spend Christmas at home. No hospital, no traveling, best of all no drama. We were both excited to see how the twins would react to everything.

We had friends and family over for Christmas Eve, of course I forgot to take pictures till almost the end.

Loen and Fauxpa Andy

Loen loves to walk around now

Derby and our friend Sheridan

For once we wanted the kids to wake up early but they slept in until 8:30. Finally they got up and we started with stockings (this will probably be the only year where they sleep late on Christmas morning so I shouldn’t complain) There was no stuffing the twins in their stockings this year.

She was intrigued with the paper (both of them ate a fair amount of wrapping paper, its roughage right??) She was probably surprised that we didn’t stop her from ripping up the paper, I’m sure that sent mixed messages.

“Loen use your teeth to rip open the present. Thats what I’m doing”

The each got a Bitty Baby from Mima T & Papa Don. Loen looks like she is giving mouth to mouth

“This baby is my doppelganger!”

Derby loves tough guy clothes, so does his dad.

The glider horse was a hit

One of my favorite pictures from Christmas morn

Grandpa Jim checking out his new mug

After the toy explosion at our house we went for Christmas supper at Dee and Andy’s. The perfect excuse to dress them up in Holiday attire thanks to Andy Sr. & Winnie!

Even Matt wanted to get in on the clip on tie action.

Derby had a hard time parting with the tie

John & the twins

Our Christmas card this year. I put my name on the list so I would be sure to save a card for the twins baby book. Of course once I was finished stuffing envelopes I thought “Hey I have an extra how did I miss that?” And promptly sent it out to one of our friends. It wasn’t till after the mail was picked up did I realize that was the copy I wanted to save. Well here is one that got returned due to an incorrect address so I scanned it, unfortunately the mail carriers weren’t too gentle with the paper. It is only fitting because I had some major drama with these darned cards, i.e: incorrect margins that wasn’t realized till all the paper was printed so I had to HAND trim each card to make it look even, buying all of the silver paper at Michael’s and they have yet to restock it (why am I always short on paper??). I kept muttering that next year I would do e-cards but I probably wont….

Front of card

Inside