Christmas #1 and #2

Friday December 19th began our whirlwind Christmas tour 2008. We started in Galesburg for Brian's parents Family Christmas. It was joyful! Saturday morning, the kids woke up to one special gift under the tree from Santa. Alaric's was his new favorite character, Handy Manny. Santa had brought him a Handy Manny doll, Handy Manny pickup truck that converts into a work bench, and Handy Manny tools ( all of which have names that Alaric knows by heart). He came running out and said, " handy Manny- I can't believe it!" It was a hit!
From Santa, Amara got a baby doll and stroller that is also a walking toy.

Here they are with their Santa gifts- just look at Alaric's excitement!

The Fultons!

The biggest hit of the day, other than Santa gifts, was Anita's Wii game. By the end of the night, I'm not sure who was most excited about the gift...Alaric playing Guitar Hero, Brian and I smoking everyone on bowling , or Bob and Chris golfing!

Here is Anita's boyfriend, Joe. It got competitive and was hilarious- Anita literally fell on the floor laughing. We were up really late into the night bowling our hearts out!

Anita, Joe, and Sweet Amara!

December 21st we headed to Knoxville for Christmas #2-Nelson Family Christmas! As always it was WONDERFUL. We had so much fun. Girls and Boys Grab Bag Game was a hit but the real highlights were having Grandpa out of the hospital and in attendance, having Luke's girlfriend Kierstyn and Anita's boyfriend, Joe there for the first time, and a wonderful family prayer by Uncle Dan and Grandpa that left not a dry eye. What a blessing our family is!

HEre are the girls!

Alaric has some Quality time with Great Gramps and shows him is snowman that makes everyone feel better.

Back to FUlton Family Christmas- I can't figure out how to make the video clips go where I want them to. Just after Aunt Nita got Wii and Guitar Hero, Alaric exclaims that he wants to "Rock Out!" Here is his air guitaring.




Oh, Sweet Mara! That's not much more to say. She's my precious angel!