Christmas in Florida

We made a surprise visit to Florida, well it was a surprise for the Bassett kids.  Jon was deployed to Kuwait so we decided we needed to be in Florida.  It was a great decision because it was super fun.

This was the surpass that the Bassetts first saw when they came in the door.  The rest of us were hiding and little Tavian was asleep in his carrier on the floor.  They couldn't figure out how he got there until we jumped out and surprised them.  They were so excited and so were we!

We had good little baby sitters the whole time we were there 

Grandpa was very entertaining.

The food  delicious and we gained some pounds over the holiday.

Sorry these are a little blurry

Our Frozen princesses

Jaedon's minecraft jammies

Brand new jammies for Christmas eve

Little Tavy

Sofia is such good mom.

This was cool,

too bad it didn't last too long.

Christmas at the beach

Love this picture of Jack

and this one too.

It is so beautiful there

The white sand is glorious 

loving the beach and Tavy

A treasure on the shore, well maybe?

It was so good to be with Mel and her family

Jack's treasure

Sofia has one too.

loving this weather

already for church

loving grandpa

The fashion Diva

By Grandpa, we will miss you all!

Christmas Eve

 

I know Christmas is past but I tried to up load these pictures earlier and blogger must have been having problems because I couldn't get them to load! 

To start off our Christmas eve celebration we made a baby quilt that we are donating to a charity.

 

I was glad to see that all my grandsons were interested in learning how to tie a quilt.  They did a great job and will be ready to help the next time we have a quilt to tie.

 

See how good they are concentrating and doing!

 

We had a tamale dinner with fresh salsa, guacamole, rice, beans, and pomegranate salad.  Everything was  delicious and it tasted so yummy!

 

We had a big pot of tamales.

 

I think Lincoln is wishing he had that food!

 

We then played the right and left game and had to have some help with all of the rights and lefts in the story.

 

Okay, by looking at Rainee's face maybe it wasn't too fun for her. (sorry Rainee I couldn't resist)

 

Things are looking up!

 

We then had the Nativity. Some of our props were not quite accurate, but they put on a great production.(Doesn't that horse look like a donkey?)

 

We couldn't get Mary to wear her costume but she loved her donkey.

Some of our shepherds staffs were a little makeshift. (a noodle, star wars sword, carrot bat, etc.)

 

Mary loved her baby Jesus.

 

Oh, another makeshift staff, (the quilting board.)

 

Quite a group of good looking shepherds and wise men.

 

The camel the wise men rode was  looking a lot like a stick horse.

 

Great production for the year 2011, and we even had a Mary this year!

 

I always loved watching this when my own kids were growing up and now on to the next generation.

 

WE also had another use for our carrot bat. Watch for the next activity...

 

Those shepherds walked a long way.

 

Oh, here is another use for our shepherds staff... lets break the pinata!

 

These dainty hits didn't do much damage.

 

Getting ready for the big sluggers!

 

Yep, here they come!

 

Hurry grab as much as you can!

 

Lincoln and McKenly were more interested in the glow lights that were in the pinata.

 

Then onto the presents!

 

McKenly showing off her new slippers.

 

Our gift,  the first letter of the name of our new grandson to be born in May!!

Traegan!

 

Ryan sporting some of his gifts, don't you love that snow shovel!  It could really move some snow if we had any!  It was a great Christmas eve celebration and a great day with the family.