Happy 2009!!!

We had a great New Year's. First we went over to the Parker's and enjoyed some great company and even greater food!!! The kids had a blast playing the Wii as you can see in the pictures. We played guitar hero. Tanalyn was rock-in it!!! I on the other hand sucked at it! Thanks Parker's for letting us come and crash your party, we had a great time!


Afterward we headed up to my parents house to ring in the "new year." There we had more great food. I know I know, but it was still the holiday's....right!! Anyway, Matt brought up a race track that Bridger got for Christmas. Needless to say the boys worked on it for most of the time. Before we new it, it was 12 o'clock. Greg ran outside to light some fireworks and the kids grabbed some pots and pans. Then it was right back in to finish the darn race track. Well about 55 minutes later they got it to work...finally we could go home!! By then we were all pretty tired and ready for bed.

Happy New Year to you all. I hope you all have a great and wonderful 2009!

Christmas Day

Christmas Morning....
Well Santa found the Carley's!!! The kids were so excited when they walked in and saw all the presents. If is so fun to see their little faces light up! I remember that excited feeling when I was little...I loved it!!! I think Ashlynn and Mitch where both pretty happy with what Santa had brought them.




Breakfast at Grandma and Grandpa Chipman's...
Every Christmas morning we go to my parents for breakfast and to open more presents!!! It gets a little crazy at times but the kids have a blast exchanging gifts with one another and telling each other what "Santa" had brought them!!


More Christmas...
Later that day we headed to Saratoga Springs to see Steve and Dianne.(Greg's dad) Unfortunately I don't have any pics, but we had a great time. The kids where spoiled once again, they didn't mind...if you can imagine!!!
Once we got back home Grandma Debbie came over and brought even more gifts for the kids...wow, they are SPOILED kids!!!



Thank you to all my family and friends for making this such a great Christmas Season. I hope you all had a wonderful one!!!

Christmas Eve...

As always our tradition is to go to my parents home on Christmas Eve. We all had a great time. We of course had our "toast," we had really good food...oh you gotta love the holidays!!! We played some games and watched all of our favorite....A Christmas Story! The kids got to open up one present, hmmm what could it be....well pajamas of course!!!



When we got home that night, Ashlynn was so excited to get ready for Santa. We put our cookies and carrots on a plate and got some eggnog for good old Saint Nick, then we read are Christmas story and off to bed they went!!!

One excited little girl!!!

If you remember last year, Mitch was really sick. Well he was sick again this Christmas. That's about right!! Luckily he wasn't as bad as last year. You can tell by this picture he wasn't feeling very good.