Christmas Eve-ning!

Well, here it is! Did you think we were ever going to get here? The last and final Christmas 2010 post! Let's take a moment to absorb.... Okay, I am ready...(so is Billy).

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Well here it finally is, just a couple months behind schedule. Story of my life lately, but we will get to that later. Just a quick side note in that very picture above I have captured two very elusive things. From first glance you might not think anything of it, but let me tell you it is something to write about. First off, it is a picture my mom was not able to evasively maneuver away from and second, well that's the big one she has a glass of wine! So that's it. Just a no big deal picture, but it is huge to us Walker's. Sorry, mom! I know how painful that whole paragraph was for you.

Papa Claus.

Sweet, sweet Emi...actually being sweet.

Look at how adorable these mugs Auntie M and Zoe made for us are. They handmade a custom hot chocolate mug for each one of us with our initials then stuffed them full of goodies. So cute, we of course had to bust into them right away for hot chocolate after dinner.

Emily has been bouncing around the house for a week or two on what is actually a light-saber that she fashioned into a pogo-stick. Grandma and Grandpa got her an actual pogo-stick. Wait till the pictures appear. It's a lot harder to pogo on an actual pogo-stick than one might remember...

Squishy was so happy she finally got her very own cooster (that is scooter in Squish speak). A Barbie cooster to be exact with sparkly wheels. Her garage is complete now.

Ahh, here we go...

You have to have some serious balance to even get up on an actual pogo-stick, as Emily is learning.

There it is! After many, several, quite a few tries here is a picture of the very first bounce. It's hard to tell, but she is air born in this picture (notice the shoes?).

And back to terra firma.

After we opened gifts, while dinner or did we decide it was supper? was cooking we went out front to let the kids pogo and such. Abi serenaded us with a beautiful rendition of the ABC's/Pop-Goes-Weasel.... hmmm. The things that must go on in her head...

When all is said and done, we had a truly perfect holiday this year. I wouldn't have changed a minute. It's a rare thing anymore when even after all the craziness has died down that you have a minute to reminisce... and not wish you would have done something different. So God Bless and Merry Christmas on to a new year!