Merry Christmas

We had a BLAST this Christmas!  The kids were such a joy this year!!  Santa was very good to them!

Here's Luke's handwriting on one of my gifts....priceless....

Santa was here!

 Luke had left one of his gifts and some money for Santa to take to a needy child.  Santa left him this letter telling him that he didn't need Luke's gift....to keep it.  Santa was going to take care of all good boys and girls!

 Luke was so excited....

 He didn't even want to look at first!

Allie got her Merida bow and arrow set....

Pluse the costume and crazy Merida hair

 Allie LOVED all the Merida stuff she got

Here's Cory....with one of each shoe on he got from me and the kids and the cozy Columbia vest. 

 Luke gave Santa 2 thumbs up!

Christmas at Grammy and Poppy's

Christmas at Dale and Sherry's was fun as well....

Christmas and Grammy and Papaws

We always enjoy getting together Christmas morning for breakfast at my parents house.  

The food is wonderful!  

 Love these two!

 Cynthia trying to teach Allie how to shoot

 

 Papaw helping Allie with her new ride

 My mom was super excited about her Carol Burnette DVD collection we all got her

 All the kids....and their new electronics

Christmas pj tradition

It was always a tradition in my family to open one gift Christmas Eve.  Even though we all knew what that gift was going to be, it was always exciting to get to open one gift.  Well, we have passed that tradition down to our kids.  We've done it since Luke was little....and he still gets excited!

New pj's!

Christmas Eve cookie decorating

Merry Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS.....with much love, 

The McElyea family  

Cory, Sabrina, Luke and Allie!

Luke's Christmas program

Luke had a little Christmas program at school on December 11th.  They danced and sang Jingle Bells.  It was cute....Luke HATES being in the spotlight!

The flu has hit!!

Well, we didn't get to avoid the bad flu bug this year.  It got Luke (of coarse!).  Started Wednesday the hit hard Friday morning.  Yes, we are ALL on Tamiflu!

More of Buddy....

The kids have really enjoyed getting up in the mornings and finding our elf!  (Yes, I'll admit, there have been a few nights we have forgot about Buddy!!)  This has been such a fun year for the kids.  We try to soak up every minute....because before long, the magic will be gone!  BOO!!!  It's actually pretty fun for me and Cory to see the kids reactions.

 Buddy got into the candy...

 He played superheros....

 He had movie night (Christmas movies of corse!)

 He played Legos

 He played with Allies' princesses

 Last night, he even brought a letter back from Santa telling Luke to get well and for Allie to be sweet!