Leading Up to Christmas

I haven't uploaded our pictures from today which will hopefully also include tomorrow's expected snow adventures. I thought I would go ahead and catch up with our adventures over the last few days leading up to Christmas.

Mike added the bike seat to the back of my bike but as you can see, both my boys have legs too long for this.  Hopefully Liam and I can make it work.

Graeme did enjoy the ride

On Wednesday, Lucy and her kids came up to stay the night and then on Thursday we headed over into Raleigh to the IMAX theater to see A Christmas Carol in 3D and to play at Marbles Kids' Museum.  The picture above shows me and the kiddos on Wednesday night playing the Wii.  

After the movie, which was pretty scary especially for poor Graeme, we headed to the fun of Marbles.  Neither Mike nor Rob had been, so it was fun for them to experience it with the kids.

Uncle Rob had fun with Liam

Graeme's favorite was still driving the school bus

Lucy liked keeping watch over the stroller and having some quiet time

Uncle Rob called in backup 

Liam liked the big plastic balls in the money room

Graeme liked the build your own racer area

Even though he wasn't exactly building a race car, he was in the "GO ZONE"

Neal enjoyed building cars and making paper airplanes

Sarah, Jadyn, Lucy and Rob enjoyed the art loft where they could play with water color pencils

Graeme climbed up high in the money room and found all kinds of things to turn and move

In the woodworking area, Jadyn showed us SAFETY FIRST

On Christmas Eve, the stockings were finally added (and sure enough within 5 minutes of Graeme being awake, he had pulled one down on himself)

Graeme liked finding Thomas the Tank toothpaste in his stocking

Liam thought it was one big play thing

We decided to open our gifts on Christmas Eve and just enjoy family on Christmas day, so here Graeme is opening his NERF gun

He likes it!!!  He's really enjoyed going around the house and pulling the trigger.

Liam liked the wrapping paper most of all 

Mike got some Lego's and Graeme was really fascinated watching him put it together.  They both can't wait for the boys to be old enough to help!

As I took pictures, there are none here to show how excited I was by my new blu-ray player. 

We had a great few days with family and enjoying our family time together!  I can't wait to share more about Christmas Day and our further celebrations with the Hales in Fayetteville.

Til then, may God bless you on this Christmas Day as we celebrate the birth of our Savior!