Christmas with Mimi & Papa

We had Christmas Eve & Day with Rod's parents,

so we had to wait till the Wednesday after Christmas

to do presents with my parents.

Reid opening his first grocery cart.

The new crane Mimi & Papa got him.
He loves this thing, but is not quite
interested in it at the time!


Papa's new Rangers hat.

The new shopping cart. We grocery shop quite frequently at

our house now. If only he would be this efficient when we are

really grocery shopping at Kroger!

Christmas 2010

I am finally getting around to blogging about Christmas this year.

Having 2 children is such a blessing, but it has definitely

thrown me for a loop trying to fit everything back into my life

in the neat little package it was all wrapped up in!

Here are some pics of Christmas...

A little out of order b/c we just got a new computer and I can't

figure out how to cut & paste the pics in the order I want them in.

Oh well. Here they are.... at least they're up!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Aunt Suzie, Riley, and Nana

Reid & Mary-McKinley.
They had an absolute BALL playing together this Christmas!
It was so fun to watch them together. M-M would happily
play with Reid & all his new trucks and followed him around all weekend long.
Or should I say, Reid followed her around ALL weekend long!


All the grandkids after opening presents.
Merry Christmas!




Madison, Riley, & Nana.

Reid anxiously waiting to open all of his presents!

His new lamborghini. The only one he will EVER

have in his lifetime unless he becomes a pro sports player

or something!




Opening the stockings. Riley's getting in on the action too!

Reading the Nativity story on Christmas Eve.

Riding the Train

Last night we went out to ride a little train that a man sets up in his backyard.
It's a precious older gentleman that has been doing this for years and just loves doing
it. He loves doing it so much, that he lets the kids come ride for FREE!
He runs the train starting after Thanksgiving and goes
till NY Day from 6-10pm every night!
We heard about it through a friend and because Reid is so in love with
trains, we knew that he would absolutely LOVE this and he did!!
When we were done he said, "That was awesome!"
What a fun night for all 3 of us!
Riley, you can ride next year when you get to be a big boy!

A dancing Santa greeted us at the entrance.

Getting ready to ride!

The plethora of Christmas decorations this sweet man has put
up for all the children to see!

The front car with the electric engine.

The caboose where we all sat.
Reid's 2nd time to ride... SO fun!
That was awesome!
Merry Christmas everybody!!!

Gingerbread House... disaster!

So over the weekend, I got all pumped up and decided it would be such a fun tradition to make a gingerbread house! How hard can this be? Right? Wrong!!!
The icing came out really sticky... they said it should be the consistency of toothpaste. Hmmmm.... is toothpaste supposed to that hard to spread?
Anyway, it was fun and Reid had a ball! That's all that matters, right?
He enjoyed eating the candy way more than making the gingerbread house. That's a kid for ya!

I thought this was going to be a piece of cake until my bag that
I was supposed to pipe the icing on with, blew a whole as I was
squeezing it to get the icing into the bottom. Oh well... a spoon
works just as well, right? Wrong-oh!!!

Here is my attempt at making a door.


The finished product... on a pizza pan.
Probably would have helped if I had read the directions and saw
that there was a piece of cardboard inside the box to put the house
on. That and all the other directions that went with it!
Hilarious! What a fun memory! Reid loved every
minute and that's all that matters to me!

It's Christmas time in the Lindsay house...

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care...

In hopes that St. Nicholas would see our pretty table!


And our other pretty table!


The tree was all decorated...

with the most precious ornaments on it that it could bear.

Merry Christmas 2010

Riley is 5 months!

I can't believe Riley is already 5 months! You have filled our hearts with joy and we are so in love with you precious baby! Your smiles get more precious by the day and I just can't kiss you enough! I wish I could hold you all day long and I know you wish I could too! You and Reid have brought my heart more joy than I have ever known.
It's so fun to watch you laugh at your brother and you are going to be a great little brother as you learn from his sweet example. Hopefully he will always do the right thing!
I love to watch you smile, laugh, and bringing you nourishment is still my favorite thing.
Seeing you sleep on me is a precious gift and I could just watch you in awe all day.
I love you Riley. Thank you for filling my heart everyday!

Christmas Dinner with sweet friends

Reid, Braden, and Jackson eating their Christmas dinner.


Rolling out the dough for some Christmas cookies!


Cutting out some shapes.


And now time to eat some!

Man, those sure were good!

Rod & his sweet boys.

Us.


The Keith Fam. Sweet friends!

We had a wonderful time last night with Rod's best friend's family eating dinner together. Every year we alternate houses and have dinner together. It started out as just the 4 of us before kids and we would go all out with amazing food, creative menus, and table decor.
Now we all have kids and it's a family dinner tradition. No more gourmet food, fancy menus or decor. Just us & the kids. What could be better?
We loved the time with you guys and the memories just keep getting better!

Thank you for a memorable evening full of good fun, fun cookie making, and just watching our kids play. I can't believe it has been 10 years of this ongoing tradition!
We love this time of year and LOVE spending it with all of you!
We have watched each other grow as married couples, have children, and now are enjoying watching our kids play together. Can't wait to see what the next 10 years of Keith/Lindsay dinners brings! We love you all!