Christmas Morning

Baby's First Christmas
Slater helping Sam find the candy in her stocking
Cozy Warm jammies
I love that PJ's are still fun to get : )

Helping Sister open a gift or 2

Sam was trying to do the moves that the Dancers were doing on the Disney Parade!

My parents came over to help Sammy and Alaina open their presents from Santa

Sam wasn't sure why Santa didn't eat the WHOLE cookie

we told her that he would get WAY too FAT if he ate all of the cookies kids left for him.

Real Christmas Eve--With the McGinnis'

This year Christmas Eve was at my Uncle Terry and Aunt Sandi's house in DeKalb. This is my Dad's side of the family.

Charlie Beth with the stockings that represent every member of the McGinnis Clan!

Sammy and Levi

Christmas outfits #3--pink and black.

With Grandma and Grandpa

I wanted Ali to wear the dress Sammy wore for her first Christmas cause I loved it so much and we had a hand me down pink and black dress from Brooke too for Sam.

My Grandpa and Nana

The McGinnis "Kids" and their spouses

(my Dad is one of 7)

The McGinnis Cousins (Grandkids) with Nana and Grandpa

There were a lot of us missing too!!!

The McGinnis Great Grandchildren with Nana and Grandpa

Not all were present but Aliana was #25 until one more was born after Christmas

Sammy LOVES Jesse!

oops forgot the Children's Museum Post

This one has lots of PICS!

On December 12 when Auntie Amy was here visiting we went to the Dupage Children's Museum in Naperville with Andy's brother and his 2 girls.

Making Mobiles

They had a blast and of course got soaking wet! Even with smocks on...

The 3 stooges actually working together!!!!

Auntie Amy in the water bubble. : )

Then we all got soaked but laughed so hard and had a great time!

We finally got them away from the water....

Andy and Samantha in a real bubble!

Alaina even seemed to have a good time--especially in the air ball popping area.

I think this entertained the adults more than the kids.

Then off to the wind tunnel--maybe this will dry them off...

Back to the bubble thing..while we dried to dry Samantha's shirt on the hand dryers...

Cousins!

Brooke loves to hold Alaina!

Christmas at Auntie Laurie's

We then were off to Auntie Laurie's for our immediate family McGinnis Christmas Celebration the weekend before Christmas. It was my sisters year to spend Christmas with her in laws so we had ours early. Andy Sam Ali and I got to have Christmas for most of December... We loaded the minivan and allowed Sammy to watch a DVD finally--it was terrific! And Ali did pretty good! She slept for most of it! Even as Sammy sang Hannah Montana.

Of course we still celebrated with our annual matching pajama's. This year my Mom went nuts with Flannel Camouflage (my bother in law hunts).

Samantha was definitely a fun age this year making a Christmas list. I think it was about 4 pages long... She had asked for a Fisher Price Dog that Grows and had showed everyone the catalog. So my Mom ordered it for her..but as Sammy opened it..she can be too smart sometimes...she actually turned to Andy and said.."I pointed to the White one in the book not the brown one, but this is OK"... This dog is a bit creepy and actually says your child's name ( a little like the guy from Silence of the lambs) and does grow every day. Sammy loved it.

Here are the cousins..I am not sure why JP is doing his best John Travolta imitation...it is not easy to get 5 kids between 6 months and 9 to lay still!

Ready for Church

Day-Care Christmas

The daycare Christmas party got postponed due to the crazy snow storm that hit Chicago land that day (Dec 18?) but the girls were already dressed so of course I took a picture--or 30!

Turned into a stay home day!