Christmas at home

Our third bout of Christmas presents this season. One begins to enjoy mass pandemonium.

Christmas in Marion Part II

If you ever need any pineapples, just ask Wilma, she grows them in the mountains of NC!





The kids loved the Angel on top of the Christmas tree.

Christmas in Marion, 2010

A good time was had by all, as usual. The kids loved to wrestle with Mark, and watching cookies bake was also a highlight.

Christmas in Columbia

We had a ball. The kids went nuts. What else needs to be said?

Thanks Carole, Al, Lindsay, and Carlyn for being such great hosts!

Christmas Lights

Our house this Christmas season. (It's not really that bright, I just used a really long exposure since I was taking the picture at night). Cindy has big plans for new lights next year...

Train Video

From the NHVR (see below). The train goes about 20 minutes outbound, then it unhooks, bypasses the coaches, and hooks back on the other end to pull us back to the station. This is what it looks like.

More Trains!

We went back to the New Hope Valley Railroad for their Christmas Train again this year. Again, loads of fun! Jack and Lily had a ball, in spite of the cold. Jack and Lily were both a little hesitant about Santa, but really just a little bit. They quickly warmed up and shouted their toy requests!

We went with a big gang from our neighborhood, and Lily had a blast hanging out with her very favorite person in the world, Josh from next door. He's in the blue track suit.

Christmas 2008, Part IV

We went out to eat one night. Thank goodness for french fries!

Christmas 2008, Part III

Jack and Lily got to destroy, uh, 'play with' lots of new stuff. Also, we can see where Cindy gets her 'close your eyes for the camera' gene.

Christmas 2008, Part II

Christmas 2008, Part I

We had a ball at Carole's house. The kids enjoyed playing with one another.

Christmas Eve

Here we all are with our Chrismas PJ's on. Jack calls them his 'Frostys.'

Christmas Train, 3

As you can see, there was no delaying the enjoyment of the candy. Lily's favorite word is 'candy,' although it comes out as something like 'ganyee.' Once the train gets to the end of the outbound trip, it unhooks, then passes back by the cars and hooks to what was the rear of the train. Then hauls us back to the station.