Christmas 2010

What a wonderful magical Christmas we have had this year. Christmas with three kids is certainly an exhausting thing, but I love every minute of the craziness!

Christmas Eve the kids spread out the reindeer food on the snow!

Christmas Eve we started out at my Mom's house for a family lunch, games, presents, and fun. There are a total of five grandchildren-four boys and then little Hope. It is loud, wild, and fun!!

Thankfully because of Xbox they were able to all play together for a bit while we cleaned up the kitchen. Hope is so shy, but she really loves Hunter.

FOUR generations of Beamer women. This picture means a lot to me and I am so thankful that we finally took the time to take it. Pictures like this are truly priceless!

Then, we headed to my Uncle George's house for an even bigger extended family gathering for Christmas eve. Here is David with his new best friend, Abram. Abram plays baseball for RU. I have been going to George's house since I was Hope's age for our annual family gathering of more good food, a short children's program, family worship time, and then we play a wild game of dirty bingo. Fun times!

Then we come home and get ready for Santa! As you can see, Santa was indeed good to my three babes this year:)

Hope got a little vanity set, and here is David fixing her hair! Ha! I love it!

Christmas Day was awesome because we actually had a WHITE Christmas! It snowed all day Christmas day, but my parents were still able to come and see what Santa brought the kids. My Mom and Hope snuggled for an afternoon nap:)

After Hope's nap we opened Oma's gifts, and Hope was so tickled with her new tea set!

Our White Christmas:)

Then we opened gifts from Daniel and Pam and here is Hope modeling her new monogrammed shirt with matching hairbow from Shreveport! So cute:) There is also a pink and green one:)

A christmas eve shot of my boys. This picture melts my heart.

A rare picture of me with my three babes:) I had a wonderful Christmas with my three children-ages 9, 6, and 1. I pray that despite the family events, presents, and fun that they will always remember that it is all about Jesus in that manger:) I am so thankful for the blessings of this season and I pray that 2011 will be wonderful!:)

Happy Birthday Jesus

After the craziness of the last few days running christmas errands, it was so nice to head to church tonight for a Birthday party for Jesus!

Obviously these guys are having fun-I would love to know what is so funny!

Mike helping Hope get to her pizza and cheese puffs.

Ginger read the Christmas story to the children and they got to take a copy of the book home. Clearly David had already enjoyed his cupcake because it is all over his face.

Kelsey listening very hard to the story:) She is so grown up looking in this picture.

A little craft action!

We went into the sanctuary to sing christmas carols and David insisted on posing in front of all the poinsettias!

Jonathan and Doug posing for a picture! I think Jonathan was expecting Doug to pick him up! Ha!

The party wore these snuggle bunnies out! They are snuggling on the couch watching football.

It was so fun to get together with church friends tonight and remember why we are celebrating this week. The christmas story from the bible really blows me away when I stop and think about it. How young and trusting Mary was when she learned that she was chosen to carry the Savior of the World. It also stresses me that they had to leave their home due to the census so close to her due date:) We had a great night with great friends celebrating the true reason for the season:)

My Shadow

This Christmas I have been super busy around the house baking, cleaning, wrapping, and I have had a little shadow beside me every step of the way.

Hope loves to be wherever Mommy is! Here she is licking the beaters after we made some Neiman Marcus brownies.

She even is obsessed with my oven mitts!

Are they done yet?

It is so baffling to me how different little girls are than boys. The boys will get in the kitchen and help me do fun baking, but they have no interest in shadowing me around the house like Hope does.

I so enjoy my little shadow under my feet:) She helps me with laundry, cleaning up toys, and she loves to help me cook. My shadow definitely slows me down, but I am going to treasure these moments together because I know sometime very soon she may not be as interested in being Mommy's little helper.

Mike and I have talked so much lately about what Hope will need from us to be a strong, confident, and kind soul. We can already tell that she is going to be much more senitive than the boys but maybe much more of a firecracker!

The other day I was listening to our country station for some reason, and this old song came on the radio and I just cried. When this song came out years ago I never dreamed that we would have a daughter:) I pray that in Hope's eyes I will always be a hero:) Enjoy this oldie but goodie song!