Lucy and her crowd are headed to Disney World for Christmas so we decided to do Christmas at Thanksgiving. The kids had a blast opening up their gifts and playing with new toys and checking out new books.
Liam thought the wrapping paper was cool and that the present made a great place to seat
Neal was happy to finally get to open his (he asked all day when it would be time to open presents as he had already figured out what his gift was)
This is the nice picture of the boys opening their present, about 5 seconds later Graeme pushed Liam backward so he could finish ripping off the paper
The Mater bubble bath was a huge hit from the cousins (he doesn't care if it ever gets used in the tub :-)
Liam enjoyed the wrapping paper and the awesome NC State pillow pal from the Melby crew (the boys have to look out for mommy stealing this present)
Ripping into the presents
Graeme helping Papa with his gift.
We had a great time and enjoyed a fun evening hanging out. The next morning dawned very cold (in the 20s). It made for some beautiful scenery.
As the day warmed, the boys got dressed to spend another day outside playing. Sadly this picture doesn't show well Liam wearing his daddy's crocs. He put them on and then ended up hooking the strap around his ankle and carrying the shoes so he could walk.
Friday was also Rob's birthday. Way to early that morning, Rob and Haley went out hunting. Haley came back with a 4-point buck. To ensure that Rob also got a buck on his birthday, we put antlers on a "buck". Here he is posing with his son and his much hoped for birthday buck.
As shown in a previous post, I tried to get a picture of the boys together to send out in Christmas cards. Once again, I failed. This was the best picture of them both, looking at each other and possibly wondering when their mother will finally stop trying.
Some great individual smiles, though
Liam of course just wanted to get hold of his Papa
Did manage to get a sweet smile out of him on the porch as he tried to grab hold of my camera.
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