It's the most wonderful time of the year!!

Once again, I am playing catch up. What can I say...better late than never. In this case it's probably true.
First of all...Happy Birthday Breckan!! Seven years old and totally rockin' it!

We love you, Breckan and can't wait to see what this year brings to you!


Secondly... Merry Christmas! This year we spent most of Christmas with the Bradley side of the family. We ended up sleeping at their house Christmas Eve since they always get up at 4 am Christmas morning. We had such a fun time, but hopefully next time we can convince Mom that 4 am is a little early and maybe something like 6 would be better. I know... good luck with that one...she's been getting up that early on Christmas for I don't know how long. We can always try, though, right? Anyway, here is Kira and Dad, bright and early. Can you still call it "bright" if the sun isn't even up?
Tyson and Grandma waiting for everyone to be ready to go downstairs and see what Santa brought. As you can see, Mom is crazy about Christmas! Aw Mom, I love you!

Santa came!



My sister got a puppy for Christmas, she had been begging for one for awhile. She also got a boyfriend around the same time...I'm not sure she really has time for the puppy anymore...just sayin'.

Opening presents!




And the best present of all! (Which I didn't get a picture of ): )
Lagoon Season Passes!
Too bad we have to wait until April to use those...
Terry's mom got one too, so that will be fun!
Next on the list...
Happy Birthday Terry! Terry celebrated his 30th birthday the day after Christmas. Unfortunately Terry is so so busy at work during the month of December (the joys of working retail) that we didn't get to celebrate much on his birthday. We did take him some balloons and birthday cake to share with everyone at work. I also gave him a night at the Anniversary Inn, hopefully when it slows down at Kohls we can get away for a night and just relax a little! He worked ALL NIGHT long on his birthday putting items on clearance at Kohls. Not the greatest birthday ever I'm sure...
We love you Terry/Dad! Happy 30th! I can't believe you are that old, mostly because I am right behind you...yuck!
As a side note, Terry got a huge promotion last November, we are so proud of him! He is now an assistant manager at Kohls. Only one more step to being manager of the whole store! Awesome! Great job, honey! I wish I had a picture with just Terry in it, but I guess I don't. Oh well, apparently we need to get him in front of a camera more often!
And lastly, HAIRCUTS! I gave Terry a Robocut for Christmas- one of those hair cutting machines that hooks up to a vacuum. This was sorely needed as a certain one year old boy in our family will not hold still for anything and we were terrified of cutting his hair because of that. Hence, Tyson was up for a haircut first. First haircut ever on Tyson! He needed it so bad, as you can see...
Before:

During:

and After:

I know they are all three at different times, but I was trying to find the best picture for each scenario. Anyway, it looks so much better now! Hooray! Zack also got his haircut, but he looks mostly the same.

Breckan and Kira also got haircuts. We did theirs with the Robocut, too. Probably won't ever do that again...Kira's turned out ok, but Breckan's ended up way uneven so Terry ended up just evening it all out with scissors and it's super short now. It looks so different...the first day I almost cried every time I looked at her. It's really cute, though and she loves it, so I guess that all that matters. Also, thankfully, it will grow out. Hopefully some day she can forgive me for being an impulsive, not really thinking things through kind of Mom... Terry will want me to add right here the fact that I was the one with the idea and the one that made him do it- as he pointed out several times while he was finishing up. So embarrassing.
Anyway, here's the proof of my insanity...
Breckan before:


Kira before:

Breckan and Kira after:
(It cracks me up how much bigger Kira's head looks next to Breckan. Gotta love that cute little baby face!)
So, there you have it. Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!