Christmas 3 and 4!!!

Guess who was able to make it over to the "good list".....

Yup none other than our nose picking 3 year old!!!

Actually everyone made it on the "good list" this year!! Santa sure was good to the LaFever kids!!

Austin's gifts included....Mom finding his ipod 1 week before Santa arrived!!! GO ME!!!

Band Hero, video games, clothes and much more!!

Allie's gifts, ipod, clothes, shoes, and roller skates plus much more!!

Cash's gifts, DS...(which actually is a handheld Vtech game) but who are we to tell him any different....he wanted a DS), games, nerf guns, clothes and more!! I told you Santa was GOOD to these kids!!!!

Johnny and I were up at 7:30 to make coffee, sausage balls and cinnamon rolls!!! By 8am we had a house full!!!

...plus Auntie!!! It was so nice to have my everyone here with us Christmas morning!!

After everyone left we made it downstairs to try out.....Band Hero!!!

Poundin' on the drums we have....

Austin!!!

Rockin' on the guitar....

Johnny!!!

And beltin' out some vocals....

Allie!!!

After our mini concert we got ready to head over to my parents!!!

Would you believe that Santa left gifts there for the kids too!! Even the "big kids"!!!

And after we opened gifts we had a VERY YUMMY dinner!!!!

Along with lots of laughs!!! This is the part of Christmas that I love!!! Making memories that will last forever!!! Being with family!!!

I have included these last two pictures because I LOVE them!!!

My Dad got Cash a couple cap guns....and he LOVED them!!! He could not wait to go out and shoot them....so Dad took him on the porch to shoot!!!

I don't know what they were talking about....I am very certain that it was "gun safety"

"Papaw!!! Did you see me shoot that squirrel? haha....that was awesome!!!"

Christmas...take 2!!!

I am going to try and catch you up on what has been going on!!! But it is going to take me a day or so!!!!

So check back often!!!!

I am not sure if you ever check the "my profile" on the right here ->

If you do, you will notice I had to make a change. The week before Christmas we had to say goodbye to a VERY dear friend of ours....Mighty Miley!!!

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My Grandparents made it in from NC!! We were so happy to have them here this Christmas!! My Nanny kept telling me..."Kate I want to spend Christmas with my family and LOTS of noise and kids laughing" BOY DID SHE GET THAT!!! More to come with that!!!!

Thursday...December 24, 2009! Christmas Eve!

Johnny had to work half a day. The kids and I invited Kim, Ron, the boys and John and Linda over during the day to help make some cOOkies!!! And to get ready for "LaFever Family Christmas"

The kids made their way outside....

You really can not see just how BiG this snowball is. HuGe!!! All 6 of the kids played outside for sometime.

When I invited the family to come out and help me with cOOkies, I was excited, Kim is a baker!! She always is making some cute little something!! Well to my surprise she did not come with the boys....So that left me and Allie and 7 yup 7 boys in the kitchen to make these cOOkies!! And you know what? They did GrEaT!!! Ian who is now 14, was my main helper!!! I would not have guessed that he would know the do's and don'ts when it came to baking cOOkies....I guess I was wrong!! Kim if your reading this....see they do listen!! Even when we think they are not!!!

I should not lead you to believe that this lasted all day...it did not!! It was short lived, and Kim did make it to the rescue!!! Not before we had finished our cut out cookies that were.....lets just say, not easy to identify!!!

So 6:30 was here before we knew it and time for

"LaFever Family Christmas"

Do you think Emma looks like her Daddy....

right, right.....She is WAY CUTER!!!!!!!!!!

And what about this adorable little thing here.....

Miss Gabriella!!! WOW!!! B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L.......just beautiful!!!!

Allie had tons of fun "babysitting" Gabriella and her also very beautiful sister, Naomi. She does not often get to spend "family time" with girls. Although it is getting a little more even with Miss Emma and Rochelle's girls!!! And we are adding a new little blessing soon too.....Adriene is going to be having a baby this spring!!! Maybe another girl?????

We played the dice game, had some very YUMMY food and spent the rest of the evening talking and laughing!!!

There you have it.....Christmas #2

Don't forget to check back soon....we still have Christmas #3, #4, #5 AND #6....plus some wrestling shots and more new news!!!!

Christmas #1

9 more days until Christmas!!! Are you ready???

I am NOT!!! I still have shopping to do, wrapping to do, cookies to bake....and I am running out of time!!! I am trying really hard NOT to stress over it...after all, this time of year is a time to be HAPPY and celebrate JESUS!!!! NOT stressed and frazzled!!! Okay, so I said I am trying!!! Everything WILL get done!!

Yesterday we had Christmas with my Mom's family!!

I do believe a good time was had by all!!! Allie was in charge of taking pictures for me.....ahem...so we have LOTS of pictures of our cat and dog and pictures of pictures on the wall!!!

Tonight after I slaved over a wonderful meal of.....ahem....subway...Thanks Michelle for getting that gift card yesterday and reminding me how much I LOVE....making such a wonderful meal for my family!!! I have not stopped thinking about it since!!! Well now I have because my belly is full :) Oh anyways after our dinner Austin was sitting at the counter doing some homework when I say to him...don't eat my gift from yesterday!! To which he says, WHY? I was looking at it this morning and it looks SOOOOO yummy!!! WHY can I not have any of them?

Well son it sure does look Yummy....to my skin!!! It is body scrub!!! OH GEEEEEZ....he says, I saw that this morning and was thinking, I wonder if Mommy will notice if I take just one of these yummy looking candies and a little...just a little of this pudding!!!! HA!!! Good thing I said something!!! I would have been really upset if he had eaten this....I can not wait to use it!!! What a GREAT idea!!! Thanks, Julie and Kate!!!! You all are sooooo crafty!!!!

I think we had a total of 25 people here...one of which included this handsome guy....

...I don't want any of you to worry!! He did leave here with both of his very chubby cheeks un-harmed....I wanted so badly to kiss them right off!!! But I was able to control myself... We also discovered that the very chunky Hank has rolls on his knees.....cutest thing I have ever seen. ROLLS ON HIS KNEES!!! LOVE.IT!!!!!!

I know you are all shocked that this guy is shirtless....

he was not Cash yesterday...he was HULK!!!

When he was Cash the other day we had this conversation...

• Cash~VERY LOUD SIGH...
• Me~Wow chuggie what was that for?
• Cash~ I'm on the naughty list!!!
• Me~You are? I do not believe it!
• Cash~ Yup I am!!!
• Me~hmmm you know you are going to see Santa with your Mamaw you might want to get on the "good list"
• Cash~Ooookay....mommy I will try to git on the good list!!!

That boy....he is something I tell ya!!!! And this girl....Miss Emma...she sure is a cutie!!!

The beauty that runs in this family....LOVE IT!!!!!!

I am going to leave you with this picture of our tree....look very closely...I do believe that someone may have been trying to lasso it, with this yellow rope that he HAD to take from his Papaw's!!!!!!

Any guesses on who that someone is?