Santa Claus is on his way… and I know my A,B,C,D’s…. or I’m A-D-D

When Lainey gets tired, she gets hyper and a little silly. The other night she was singing “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” so I grabbed the camera and asked her to repeat it for me… this is what I got. Please excuse the bad lighting since I didn’t want to blind my [...]

Behold the Griswold Family Christmas Tree… err uh Card

This year we went with our out-takes instead of trying to get the ‘perfect’ shot. We wanted to stick with our tradition of using our vacation pictures on the card but this year Hurricane Ike blew through the Gulf so we had a very difficult time keeping the Santa hats on and hair out [...]

We’re Elves

There are only five elves so we couldn’t add Duke and Maximus but Vedo can bust ‘a move (for a Great Dane).

Still unsure of Santa

Lakyn humored us once again and sat on the Big Man’s lap for the sake of her little sister. And although Lainey was very excited to go see Santa, she was still apprehensive with the idea of sitting on his lap. She did talk to him AFTER he gave her a toy [...]

Santa Claus is coming to town… and it doesn’t look good

for Lainey.  She is driving me bonkers with this song right now.  It’s all she wants to hear on my iPhone (and she prefers The Boss’ rendition with the E Street Band).  I will admit that it is cute since this is also the first Christmas song that Jay and I taught Lakyn.
And don’t get [...]

A Griswold Family Christmas

 ”Clark, the little lights aren’t twinkling.”  Well, the Griswold’s had yet another fun-filled Christmas this year starting with Lainey (our 2-year-old) permanently knocking out power to half of our Christmas tree and ending the evening by throwing up all over herself, Jay and her carseat.   There were some good times in between though…. like [...]

Still Scared of the Big Man

  
Lakyn and Lainey got their picture taken with Santa today and as we assumed, Lainey is still very leery of the big man.  We went over to the Worthington Mall so that Lakyn wasn’t see by any of her Middle School friends while sitting on Santa’s lap (and there are no lines there).

Elf on the Shelf

Today a package arrived in the mail for Lakyn and Lainey from their Grandma Dedi that will add a new tradition to our family Christmas.  She got the girls the “Elf on the Shelf” set.  If you haven’t seen this, you are missing out.  It is such a genius idea!   It is a little [...]

We’ve Been Rudolphed!

Today when we opened our front door we found this in a big Ziploc bag.  This is something new in our neighborhood and I have to say I Like It!  There was a gift, a sign for our front door and a letter explaining that we’ve got a secret Santa in the neighborhood who gave [...]