Ferguson Christmas 2011

I promise…last Christmas post for 2011.  Like most families, we scurry around going from Christmas to Christmas, trying to see all the family.  Lucky for us, the Ferguson Christmas is at our house, so we don’t have to travel anywhere. Our cousins, Amanda and Jeffrey Thornton, drive in from Louisiana with their 3 kids, so its not quite as easy for them. 

This year, we had a house full of little ones!  Great grandkids (from the top) Morgan –16, Madison – 14, Caden – almost 7, Gracen – 4, Jake –2, Jackson –2 , Brylie – almost 2, Gabriel – 3 months, and Jake Thronton- 1 month. WOW!!  These kids had a GREAT time playing together and pulling out every toy in the house.  While some might say they would never want that many running through their house, I LOVE it.  I love that Jake has so many cousins his age and am so grateful he’ll have many more Christmas’ of fun ahead of him!

Christmas in Marion

We drove to Marion on Christmas day to spend some time with my family  Jake had a GREAT time with his cousins and was spoiled rotten for about 24 hours straight.  A great end to our tour de Christmas!

Christmas Eve and Morning 2011

Seems so strange that this will be our last Christmas as a family of 3!   We came home from a long day in Carlisle to get ready for Santa. Jake set out cookies and eggnog (Greg bought it and no one else will drink it …hence, Santa gets stuck with it).  It was really fun explaining to Jake that Santa would come down the chimney to eat the cookies; and as much as Jake enjoyed that little tale, he wasn’t quite sure why Santa got all the Oreos!  So, being the sucker I am, I let him have one too!  Of course, Papaw and Daddy got a piece of that action too!

After reading the 1,000 books he got earlier that day, I finally got Jake to bed. He was anxious to see if Santa was really going to eat those cookies!

All December, he has been telling everyone that Santa is going to bring him donuts and chocolate milk. Easy enough!

I was so anxious to see his sweet, little face Christmas morning! Typically, Jake is reluctant to get out of bed in the morning. He likes to lay around and play for a while.  However,  all it took Christmas morning was reminding him that Santa came and he was jumping over me to get out of his room!  And, just as I predicted, he didn’t make it past the donuts and chocolate milk. He told everyone he needed to “eat first.”   By “everyone,” I mean our sweet parents (grandparents to Jake and Eli) that came over for Christmas morning. My parents drove in the night before and Greg’s parents got up really early to be there when Jake woke up!  I know it made his Christmas morning so much more special to have all that attention! 

Once the donuts were half gone, he was agreeable to checking out the rest of Santa’s loot!

Christmas in Carlisle

We went to Carlisle for Christmas Eve and celebrated with Greg’s family. We’ll bring the whole clan together in about a week, so this was just his immediate family. We had Craig’s BBQ, (for those of you non-locals- its some of the best BBQ around!) Perfect Christmas Eve dinner!

Jake had a great time playing with all of his cousins and to top it off – Dadoo got a ranger they could all ride in and drive. I’m certain we put 100 miles on it that day! Little Gabriel, Greg’s sister’s newest baby, was there and is already 3 months old. He is soooo cute and was a real champ that day – given the chaos, lack of quite time for him to nap and a certain wild, two year old!

Having a piece of Jesus’ birthday cake!

Madison and sweet Gabriel!

Now that is dedication to the remote!