sweet and silly moments with uncle andy...12.29

stringfield family christmas...12.27

g.g. holding baby jacob...
drew terrorizing the piano...

the entire vick stringfield family

granny merle (aka g.g. to my kids) and papa vick and their 6 grandchildren

granny merle, papa vick, and their 3 children

4 generations

i know this is surprising...but jacob slept through all the present opening at aunt ann's house too!!!

the obligatory picture of andy holding his annual lsu t-shirt...he loves them and wears them all the time, but for some reason, i ALWAYS get a pic of him holding it each year...random!

sarah wearing and holding her presents...

granny merle opening a gorgeous ring from papa vick...

drew showing off his power tools...oh, in case you can see the MASSIVE cut between drew's nose and lip...on christmas day, he pulled on a stocking at mimi's house which caused the stocking holder to fall off and somehow cut him there...none of us saw it happen (great parenting, huh?) but, it was a nice little injury for EVERYONE to ask us about for a few days...

oh yes, you can see the huge cut quite nicely in this picture...poor drew boo :(

sweet "aunt" lana and "uncle" ed...

baby jacob, sleeping once again...this nap time was on aunt annie

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again, we had a wonderful time visiting with family. our trip was too too short, but we squeezed in as much as we could while we were there. we came home on sunday, the 28th after being there a little more than 36 hours! the kids were great driving home too, considering the grueling schedule they had been on while in louisiana. we were able to be a little more leisurely on the drive home since we weren't racing to a family gathering. okay, that concludes the christmas posts...i think i was posting christmas pics til the end of january last year :)

wood family christmas...12.26

cousin emily and andy being SO cool :)
the "big" cousins...emily, kelly, joanna, and andy (we were missing michael-boo!)

all the first cousins...jack, emily, kelly, joanna, andy, and julie (again, no michael)

being silly!!!

what could be more fun for a two year old than playing with toothpicks!?! do not try this at home...

julie was SO sweet helping little drew open his presents...

sweet emily was nice enough to paint sarah's nails IMMEDIATELY upon sarah opening her present containing nail polish...of course, mommy had just painted her nails the day before :)

savannah was NOT happy that she wasn't sitting by sarah...

attempting to get a picture of all 5 great grand kids together...drew showing off the finer side of his personality :) 7 hours in the car and no nap definitely brings out his best!!!

don't jacob and samantha jo look so comfortable? drew "holding" (and i use that term loosely) jacob, savannah holding sj, and sarah

a little better? maybe?

we saved poor baby jacob from his torture and tried just the other kids a few more times...

the whole gang...minus michael, heath, and steve

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we had a wonderful time visiting with the wood family...although the time always passes too quickly! my family of 5 got on the road at about 11:00am the day after christmas and made it to madisonville, louisiana about 5:30pm. it was a LONG drive!!! the big kids were amazingly well behaved...and baby jacob barely made a peep! but, the exhaustion/hyperactivity hit at uncle rick's for sure!!! but, i'm still so so glad we made the trip to get to see our family!

christmas afternoon at mimi and poppy's house...12.25

surprise...surprise...jacob slept through all the present opening at mimi's house too!!!

we laughed and laughed at sarah playing with the toolbench and drew playing with the dollhouse! i promise, we ARE trying to get drew more masculine toys :)

christmas morning at nana and pop pop's house...12.25

aunt marcell and uncle therell surprised us by joining in the festivities on christmas morning!!!
nana and pop pop got sarah a personalized princess book! how perfect! sarah was WAY excited that the story had HER name, address, birthday, and friends' names in it!!!

aunt marcell lovin' on little jacob...

uncle therell taking his turn with the peanut...

singing happy birthday to Jesus...

pop pop told the story of Jesus's birth to the little ones...i LOVE the look on sarah's face in this pic! pop pop asked questions during the story and sarah was on cloud nine raising her hand and answering the questions...SO the little nerd!!!

sweet pic of prayer time after the story...

sweet little man slept through opening presents...he had already slept through opening santa presents earlier!!!