Christmas in North Carolina

Mouse Hunt themed birthday party for Jesus

The boys eating the cupcakes we made for Jesus' birthday. We always have a birthday celebration on Christmas eve...up until this year it has gone pretty smoothly. The whole evening we spent cleaning out my pantry...(well Ken's parents helped clean it out mostly).

Didn't know my pantry had so much food in it!

The cleanest it's ever been since we moved into the house.

This year, undecided by us, we had a combined birthday party for Jesus with a mouse hunt for the games....Ken found a dead mouse under our Christmas tree on Christmas eve and the Hunt was on...Our pantry had mouse poop throughout and at the bottom one of the little critters ran across the floor...Ken sucked it up with his shop vac. In all we found caught 3 mice...One was living in our fireplace vent. I haven't seen any since...

christmas 2010

Leisel at our Christmas eve service at church. I'm pretty sure Jesus was toddler at one point and I am pretty sure he was never as naughty as this little thing....

The Rock Chalk Jayhawk KU brothers!!!!

Both of them are konked out after our trip on the Santa Train.

The train to nowhere.

We rode on the Santa Train in Salisbury, Nc. Caleb is really into Santa. Toby is Skeptical. Leisel is plain scared of him.

Leisel is biting Caleb...I guess this is what she thinks is a kiss.

My 3 babies...

What a sweet boy!

December trip to the midwest 2010

Ken and I went to a Reunion for his college and saw a lot of old friends...

We had a great time.

Just a random and rare picture of the Leisel and Toby in the Bath.

I thought it was rather cute.
Andy and Ryan leg wrestling for a bag of M & M's (the prize for one of the games).

While we were in town, Ken's sister, who lives in NC had a baby shower in KC. We had fun playing games, eating cupcakes, good food....

We tried to get the kids to pose, but Leisel once again had other plans....Toddlers...

We went to The Topeka Train Station while we were visiting.It was beautifully renovated. We got the tour, of course Leisel wasn't interested...

Griffins displayed at the Depot.

My mom Made Cookies with the kids...this always tries my patience,

but my mom is up for it...

We went back to our home states in December. We decided we wanted to be home for Christmas this year, since we have only been home twice in the 9 years we have lived in NC. Once was when we moved into our home and the other was Caleb's leg surgery the day after Christmas.