Christmas 2008 - Take 3, 4, & 5

We have been busy! But, we've made the rounds and have finished up all our wonderful Christmas celebrations. I'll give you the run down of events and then pictures.

• Christmas afternoon/night we went to Grandpa and Grandma Nan's house. We opened presents and got to visit with Grandma Nan's side of the family.
• The day after Christmas we went to Grandma's house. We opened presents and went out to dinner.
• The 27th - back to Grandpa and Grandma Nan's to open presents and visit with Jason, Melissa, Luke and Zach.
• The 28th - Grandma, Aunt Janet, Uncle Jeff, Michele, and Cousin Margaret came over for lunch and presents.

We are blessed to have so many Christmas celebrations. Our family is very important to us and we're so glad we got to spend time with everyone this season. Brady has successfully been SPOILED ROTTEN. Our job now is to clean out old toys to make room for all the new ones!! And pay attention to all the snazzy clothes in the pictures! Brady's wardrobe is more extensive than mine!!! Thank you so much to everyone that helped to make this holiday season a memorable one.

OH WOW!

Look at that grip

How do you do this Grandpa?
is this right Grandpa??
The real pro steps in to give a few lessons!
Daddy showing off his presents!
Helping Grandma open her presents
Brady made Grandma a Christmas platter with his footprint...such a thoughtful little boy!Elmo is definitely a favorite this year. I have no idea how he learned about Elmo, but he loves him and shouts his name anytime he see's him.
Needless to say Hokey Pokey Elmo was a HIT...thanks Grandma!

Give Elmo a hug!
Playing with Elmo...have I mentioned we love elmo??

YEA, Lego's! Thank you Aunt Janet and Uncle Jeff!
I love the way he's sitting on his leg! He looks like such a little boy!

ummm Uncle Jason I think you're doing that wrong

Look at me Zach...thanks for letting me ride your scooter!
Great minds at work

CATCH

Christmas 2008 - Take 2

Our first Christmas at home with Brady! It was so much fun! Santa came to visit Christmas Eve and got all of Brady's goodies set up just perfectly.
The loot!

Brady wasn't really sure what was going on when we brought him downstairs, but he quickly figured it out. Of course Brady was much more impressed with the balloons daddy got the night before than he was the toys Santa picked out for him. Oh well, the balloons will deflate and then we'll have the toys right?!?!?!?

checking it all out

balloons!!! This is exactly what I would have asked Santa for if I hadn't cried the whole time I was in his lap!

opening presents!

playing with his animals and shape bean bags!
what a fun train table to play with my animals on!

shooting hoops! Thank you Nana and Grandanny for my goal!!

We had a great day. We spent the morning in our pj's and had mokey bread, eggs and sausage for breakfast. Jeff and I had mimosa's...and we all played..... mostly with balloons.....but hey we played!! We started a lot of new traditions that I can't wait to continue in the years to come!!!

Tweedle dee and Tweedle dum

I know I'm a little out of order and this is suppose to be a Christmas post, but I just had to do a post about Brady and Hannah. These two little kiddo's are definitely going to be the best of friends! It's so fun to watch them run around and "play" with each other. They were pretty much joined at the hip all week. If Hannah runs in circles, Brady runs in circles...and then they stop and just laugh at each other! They had a great time this week...we of course have no idea what they're were laughing at or talking about in their own little language...we probably don't want to know, but they sure were cute!!!

playing in the bunk beds at the Great Wolf Lodge

you want to open one of my presents now?

if only my mom knew what we were saying right now

come on, let's lose these guys

Christmas 2008 - Take 1

Let the games begin!!! We started off our holiday season with a trip to Rockwall to see Grandanny and Nana. We had a very busy and fun filled 5 days! Grandanny and Nana had a lot of fun events planned for us and we had a blast!

Here's a rundown of our Trollinger Christmas!

We opened presents....

here's how you do it guys
Brady was very into ripping the paper this year!

Let us help you Nana
We attempted lots of cousin pictures....

everyone looking at the same camera....MERRY CHRISTMAS!

We went swimming.....
Grandanny and Nana made reservations at the Great Wolf Lodge, an indoor water park. What a fun thing to do in the middle of the winter! It was a nice break from the 30 degree weather outside!!!

Let's go swimming guys!!!
splish splash!

silly Jacob playing with Aunt Kim's glasses in the Wolf Den (hotel room)!

We made cookies with Nana....

we might have eaten a little dough too!

Hannah's turn!

We decorated gingerbread houses.....

We went to see trains....

A mall in the Dallas area has a great train display at Christmas time to benefit The Ronald McDonald house...it was a fun trip!
The boys were mesmerized by the trains!!


We played in the sand....

We read stories with Grandanny

We rode Grandanny's Polaris

We went to Granny's

on Christmas eve we spent the day at Granny's house with Granny, Bryan, Julie, Stephanie, and Travis. For some reason I didn't take many pictures this day, but we had a great time and enjoyed getting to see everyone!!!
Thank you for my presents Granny!

Brady in his Christmas outfit!!
But most of all we had a VERY MERRY week before CHRISTMAS!!!!!!
coming soon to a blog near you....
Christmas 2008 takes 2, 3, 4, and 5!

Come on ride that train!

This afternoon we went to the train museum in Dickinson. They had a model train display today and we thought the kids might enjoy it, and they did! Brady, Cooper, Trenton, and Margot had a blast looking at the trains and running around playing outside. Thanks guys for a fun afternoon!

Brady with one of the train sets!

Brady and Baby Margot!

The whole gang!

The boys did so good sitting next to Margot!

The boys! Of course they're all looking in different directions!

Where's your belly button??? Brady was, for some strange reason, way into showing his belly button off today. So Trenton decided to join in the fun!!

playing in the big wagon

Let's go see the trains again mom!