Showing posts with label Nuckolls Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nuckolls Christmas. Show all posts

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Christmas at Terry & Cara's

The Friday after Christmas, we celebrated with Mom's side at Terry & Cara's house.



 Rhys was chasing Isaac through the house. He really is still afraid of her a bit. She's a bit of a brute ;)
See Isaac hiding on the couch?

 There she goes again!


 Decorating sugar cookies (made with raw cane sugar and whole wheat flour. We're used to the taste, but I'm not sure everyone else is!). I tried my hand at homemade, natural coloring for the first time. I used spirulina powder to make green, mostly because that's the only thing I had on hand that would work for a Christmas color. The thing with natural coloring is that you won't get the deep, rich colors without the taste of whatever you're using to color it coming through. But it worked well enough...I'm happy to find a natural alternative to artificial food dyes! Those things wreak havoc on my kids, Jacob especially.


 Playing John Deere Uno (what else would there be at Uncle Terry's house??) with Great Aunt Dona.



 And since it was actually Bryce's birthday, Binga made him a cake and we had a little celebration for that, too!


 Turning all shy when we sang to him.


 Nice photobomb Uncle Wally!



 Anna got the cutest hair bow! It has tractors on it and says "Country Girl"





Bryce got a Planes tent for his birthday. Jacob and Bryce were determined to sleep in it that night. I had to distract Isaac from it because there was NO WAY 3 boys were fitting in there!! Let's just say the night ended with Jacob up on the bed and Bryce halfway out of the tent. :)



Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Nuckolls Christmas!

Jacob & Hudson had fun playing with this little tree and the sleighs. They were both making the little squeal...whatever that was supposed to be! :)

Christmas Celebrations 2 & 3!

Saturday was our 2nd Christmas celebration with my extended family. It was at my Uncle Alan & Aunt Donna's house again. There was a small crowd this year...only 14 adults and 9 kids (age 6 and under). It was still a great time!


Grandma with her 17th great-grandchild!! (Asher)


Anna with her favorite baby (okay, all babies are her favorite!) Leah! Anna would have been content to hold babies all day long!! Leah is such a sweet baby.



Jacob climbed right up with Anna and Leah. I told Aaron "See...they're ready for another one! We can handle 3!!" hahaha



Anna holding the newest addition--Asher who is about 7 weeks old! He looks just like his brothers!! She was a pro with that boy! He got fussy and she just put his pacifier in his mouth and rocked. So cute.


Smilin' Leah Dawn :)


Daniel, the little stinker! He wasn't too keen on all the people around, but I got him to smile a few times!


Anna and Asher

Jacob was in hog heaven!!! Aunt Donna has all sorts of Cars toys. He played with these for over an hour, quiet as can be.


The men singing the traditional "We Three Kings"
Grandpa, my brother Jamie, Aaron, Uncle Alan, Daniel and Scott, my cousin's husband Ike


About half of the great-grandchildren!
Husdon, Jacob, Anna, Parker, Addison, Daniel, & Hunter


Grandpa & Grandma with their scrapbook.
Their sweatshirts need to be updated!!

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The third celebration was with my Mom's side (although she wasn't there) at Aunt Cara & Uncle Terry's house. There were 10 adults and 5 kids.


Anna and my cousin Heather


Oh boy!!! He got a CARS jacket!!!!!!!!


He was beyond excited. Uncle Terry & Aunt Cara are forever his favorite (as if the John Deere supply wasn't enough to keep them in his good graces!)



I'm so cool

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And now we're in Colorado celebrating with Aaron's family! Then we have the Iowa celebration! :) So much to do!