Happy New Year 2012

New Year's Eve

Ammie and Papa hosted their annual New Year party.  Friends and family joined us and we played games, ate food, and visited until the crystal ball dropped in Times Square.

Cousins...

 Twin cousins Charlie & Tessa couldn't stay awake until midnight...

 Loves for Lily because she is going home to sleep...

Maylee was very perceptive and without prompting she told Lily "Bye, bye. I love you."

 Oh no...she is sucking her thumb and starting to get tired...

 But, she rallied and saw the ball drop!

 CHEERS...she loved giving everyone "Cheers!"

 She made it to midnight...here is proof...

Just for Kicks...here are the proof pictures that she made it to midnight previous years...

2011

 2010

Playing on Cinder, and then becoming more tired so she started cuddling...

New Year's Day

We were working on a puzzle, and Maylee said "Mom, where are my cousins?" 

So, we called and Emma and Sarah came over to play.

 Little Mermaid came out when I was in elementary school...

 Maylee is watching Sarah play games on the iPad...

Other Christmas Days

For us, Christmas is celebrated from Christmas Eve and the following three days, because of many family gatherings on both sides of the family.  Here are pictures during those days...

Emma and Sarah Time

 Kamiah Time

Nana Jo is smiling about her new Maylee book...

 Grandma Linda loves her new photos of Maylee...

I also made her some seasonal scrapbook pages of Maylee.
Now, she can pick a page for each season to display in a frame.

 Maylee is showing off her new pretties from Grandma Linda...

 Maylee loves her new puppy from Nana Jo and Papa Dean...

 Maylee is letting Cinder help her unwrap her BIG present from Nana Jo and Papa Dean...

 It was an AWESOME wooden doll bed!
It is handcrafted by the husband of one of Nana Jo's employees.

She is rocking and saying "Sh, sh, sh" to her puppy...

 Oops, she noticed Mom with the camera so then she said "Cheese."

 Maylee and Maddie...her mommy went to high school with Kev.

 Giving Cinder loves...

 Trying out her new baby doll in the new bed...
She loves this bed and it is so beautiful!!  Thank you!!

More Great-Grandma Linda and Maylee Time...

Christmas Day 2011

Christmas Morning

Maylee came up the stairs and ran straight for the Santa treats she left.  She noticed Santa ate her cookie and drank the milk.  She also noticed the Santa presents left in the same spot.

She wanted to open her stocking presents first.  There were little animals in them! 

Her favorite that she latched on to immediately was the polar bear.

Now, going for the BIG one!

She was so excited that Santa brought her a rocking horse!

Yee-haw!

Smirking...sooo happy!

Next, she opened her other large Santa gift.

It was a zoo for all the animals!  Santa must have heard the story about the polar bear who pooped in the water because in this zoo the polar bear slides down to the water.

Cinder loved her new toy from Maylee.  Maylee picked it out and helped wrap it.

She remembered exactly which present was Cinder's under the tree for two weeks and found it again under Ammie's tree when we brought our presents down, even though others were wrapped in the same paper and about the same size.  Cinder loves to bite at wrapping paper and pull it off packages.  We have to watch her so she doesn't take over and unwrap Maylee's gifts.

Ammie and Papa loved their new book about Maylee...

More presents...

Once she opened Dora pajamas from Ammie and Papa, she had to wear them right away.

Annual Christmas Day Extended Family Gathering at Connie and Gary's

Waiting for all the little cousins to find their gift to open...

 Maylee loves her "puppy purse" from Big Ammie...

 Maylee and Little Brittany are fascinated by Aunt Connie's moving pig...

Christmas Eve 2011

We traveled down to Ammie and Papa's house on Christmas Eve.  We attended evening church service and then asked Maylee to smile for a picture in front of the tree with her pretty dress on...she was way too tired at this point...

My Secret Pal at school gave me this really neat Santa plate and mug.  Maylee left one of her sugar cookies that she made with her grandmas and some milk for Santa.

Meeting Santa

The evening of Dec. 19th, Maylee called Santa.  Santa told her that he would stop by Mama's school the next day and she could come too!  Then he told her "Ho, ho, ho!"  Her eyes lite up and she wanted to read Santa a book and show him all her toys.

The next day, Ammie brought her to school and she sat on Santa's lap.  She told Santa she wanted a horsie and that she loved him.  She was definately not afraid and gave him lots of hugs.  She was also excited to see the kids at school!