Our Christmas Decorations

Here are some of our Christmas decorations.

This is our Christmas card tree.

Here are me & Chad's stockings.

Here are the cat's stockings and some other decorations.

New Stockings

This year I decided to make new Christmas stocking for me & Chad. I made us stockings the first year we were married, but I wanted to do something different now. I was VERY happy with how well both of the stockings turned out. Here's Chad's snowflake stocking:

Here is my Cardinal stocking - I sewed both of the birds on with my sewing machine (and was very impressed with myself) and hand sewed the names on.

Here's a close-up of one of the Cardinals.

Christmastime chilling

Sandy and Chad take advantage of the Christmas holidays to chill out on the couch together.

Christmas party with friends

Every year we have a Christmas party with some of our friends and do a Christmas ornament exchange. Here are Jackson & Braden attempting to play together at the party - Jackson didn't quite understand why Braden couldn't do much this year (Jackson is almost 2 and Braden is 5 months).

Here is another picture of Jackson & Braden in front of the Christmas tree.

More Christmas Party pictures

Here are the hosts of the party, Paul, Kelly & Jackson.

Here is Becca & Braden, unfortunately Jason was sick

with the flu and couldn't come to the party.

Even more Christmas Party pictures

Here is me & Chad at the party.

Here are Melanie & Dave at the party.

Christmas at our house

Somehow we didn't take any pictures of me & Chad opening our gifts to each other, but as always we have lots of pictures of the cats! Chad gave me clothes, Christmas ornaments and candy and I gave him clothes and my favorite gift to him was a calendar I created in iPhoto using pictures of us over the last few years. Here is Roxy checking out some of my gifts.

Here is Sandy hiding in some of the wrapping paper!

Here is Sandy hiding/lounging in some more wrapping paper.

The Cat's Gifts

Here are Sandy & Roxy checking out what they got in their stockings (new toys and treats).

I know this one is blurry, but that's because the cats were very excited about their new toys and were going crazy playing with them as soon as they "opened" them! Here is Roxy playing with one of her new toys.

Here is Sandy playing with one of her new Christmas toys.

Christmas with our Nieces

Here is our niece Karissa with one of the gifts we gave her.

Here is our niece Kathryn with one of the gifts we gave her.

Here is Karissa posing as one of the Christmas gifts.

Opening presents with Chad's Family

We had lunch with Chad's family on Christmas Day at his Grandmother's house. Here are Chad's parents and his Grandmother opening some of their gifts.

Here is Chad's Mom with one of the gifts we gave her

the book A Rare Breed of Love by Jana Kohl.

More pictures from Chad's family

Here is a picture that our niece Kathryn took of me & Chad.

Here are our nieces playing with some of their Christmas gifts.

Chad's whole family

Here is Chad's whole family at Christmas. Top row from left to right: Chad's Grandmother Ruby, Dad Eddie, Mom Brenda, Sister Amy and Kevin. Bottom row: Chad, me, Kathryn and Karissa.

Christmas with my family

Since my Dad is living in Wilmington now for his new job we did Christmas with my family after Christmas Day. My brother Fielding and our friend Tom were also there, but they missed out on being in the picture. Here is my Dad, me & Chad in front of our Christmas tree.

Thanksgiving with Chad's family

We had lunch with Chad's family for Thanksgiving (and dinner with my family). Here's Chad & Kathryn tickling Karissa while Chad's Dad Eddie looks on.

Here is Kathryn & Chad.

More pictures from Chad's family

Here is Chad's mom, Brenda, playing the Wii.

Here is the whole family:

Chad's grandmother, our nieces Kathryn & Karissa, Chad's parents Brenda & Eddie

Chad's sister Amy & her husband Kevin and us.

Thanksgiving at our house

This Thanksgiving I was sick for about a week before Thanksgiving (that's why I'm wearing my glasses in all the pictures), so at our house it was pretty much up to Chad to do everything. Of course since he is such a wonderful husband he did everything and did not mind at all. Here's a picture of my Dad, Fielding, me & Chad at our house on Thanksgiving.

Here's one of just me & Chad.

Fielding's cats

My brother Fielding has 2 cats. Star (pictured below) was my cat that an ex-boyfriend gave me for my 17th birthday. So, Star is 12 years old now! She is starting to show her age, but she is still a very sweet and beautiful cat. While Fielding was out of town Chad & I fed his cats - that's when I took these pictures.

Fielding just recently got another cat, Chewbacca, who is still just a kitten. He was pretty scared of me & Chad, but he did let me get this one good picture. Because of their coloring and fluffiness Chewy and Star almost look like they could be related!

Roxy shares her spot

Roxy loves to sit on the back of our leather chair (but only if there's a blanket draped over). Occasionally she will share this spot with Sandy as you can see below.

Sandy's favorite Christmas activity

Sandy's favorite Christmas activity is to try to get underneath the tree skirt. Here she is peeking out from her hiding place.

Here she is totally "hidden".

Sandy as a Christmas decoration

Here is Sandy under the Christmas tree...right now she's the only present under there!

Here is Sandy trying to blend in with the other Christmas decorations.