Christmas in VA Beach

Christmas Day we headed down to VA Beach for our Lee Family Christmas. The cousins had a great time playing together.This gift was especially popular.

Coleman discovered something even better then wrapping paper to eat... ribbon!

Christmas Day

Christmas morning with the boys.

As you can see from this picture Coleman is very spiritual. He was very into reading the Christmas story in Luke on Christmas morning. Braden was a little more interested in his stocking.

Opening their stockings.

Coleman loved opening his gifts -- he mostly enjoyed eating the wrapping paper, but his favorite actual gift was his bongo set.

Braden got this great remote control car called the "bounce back racer." It is "squishy" so it is pretty indestructible and it flips over when it hits something. Many people other then Braden have also enjoyed playing with it the past couple of days.Braden could not stop playing with his new toys ... even to take this picture.

Christmas Eve

We enjoyed a great Christmas Eve.

Bryce demanded that the boys get to open a gift each on Christmas Eve morning... soooo they did.

Then we hosted our annual Christmas Eve party. Here are Coleman and Braden waiting for their friends to arrive.

Braden's favorite food at the party was the train cake.

Here are some of the friends that shared the afternoon with us.

Sophia JosiahJackThe Conner girlsTommyEli Tori and MelissaTrav and Nina Cathleen and Trina Garrison Ben decided that he would do some coloring as well.

Sophia working on the puzzle with the big girls...

We ended the night by going to church and the whole family went to "big church" to watch the Simones light the Advent Candle. Christmas in Williamsburg...

Getting Ready for Christmas

Coleman is excited for his first Christmas. Here are some of the many smiles of Coleman:

Braden enjoyed making Christmas cookies today. He was an integral part of each step in the process; making the dough, rolling it out, cutting shapes with the cookie cutters, adding the sprinkles, and of course eating the final product. He did the sprinkles on each and every cookie himself. When asked if he needed any help he said, "No, I'm working I will finish all of them." --- and he did.

Tribe Basketball

Braden has loved attending all the home William and Mary Basketball games this season. Today there was a day game so the whole family got to go and the Ritners joined us. Here we are with all our Tribe Pride!

Happy Birthday Peter and Welcome Andrew!

We enjoyed celebrating Peter Cook's 3rd birthday last Saturday before his new brother Andrew arrived on Wednesday. Meredith threw a terrific party despite being on bed rest and Mike took these great pictures with their new camera.

Coleman and Jax Ritner. (buddies already)

Andrew Kolbe Cook