Christmas at MawMaw & PawPaw Simmons!

Saturday morning after we got back from Chicago we had Christmas at MawMaw & PawPaw Simmons house! We always have so much fun over there! Alan's whole family was able to be there! MawMaw & PawPaw Simmons, Nana & PawPaw Simmons, Mimi Pate, Aunt Julia, Uncle Van, & Jake, Cassidie, Robert, Kelsie, & Ashton, Tiffany & Chad, Amy, Chad, & Emma, & Joni! Our tradition is the Chinese Gift Exchange with the adults and presents for all the little ones! If you could imagine the mass ciaos under one roof :) We ate and ate and ate all day... oh and played games ;)

Brett on his Radio Flyer Bike!

My Boy is growing up!

If that isn't the cutest!

The Grandkids! Ashton, Kelsie, Brett & Emma. By next year there will be 2 more!!

Brett & his Farm House! He loves animals!!

Emma, Brett & Ashton!

There is always war going on when the big kids and little kids get together ;) Jake tackles Alan... Kelsie sits on Jake... Brett climbs to top! Ashton wasn't too far behind...

The whole fall out!! Hilarious! I think Ashton & Brett are still tackling Jake :)

Christmas at Nana & PawPaw Simmons!

Sunday morning after Christmas at MawMaw & PawPaw Simmons we headed up to Nana & PawPaw Simmons for our Christmas there! Here we still had a house full! Nana & PawPaw, Us, Cassidie, Robert, Kelsie, & Ashton, Chad & Tiffany & Mimi Pate! We ate and played games and ended the night looking at Christmas lights!


Brett & Ashton playing Dominoes! Or not really... just building things with the Dominoes!

You never really know with these two ;)

Kelsie & Ashton!

Brett, looking like he is about to attack Ashton...

Brett playing Santa and passing out the presents! He is such a big helper :)

Lounging in his new chair! :)

Brett being a silly boy :)

Christmas at Home!

We didn't celebrate our Christmas with Brett until we got home from Chicago. That was ok with him though! By this time he was ready to open presents every morning ;) The 3 of us just played and had a great time together!

Brett checking out the presents!

He got a Tee-Ball set and a real Golf set! He is our little sports player!!

He used the Play-Doh for drums!

Christmas in Chicago!

The Sunday before Christmas Alan, Brett, and I flew out to Chicago to visit my Aunt Sue, Uncle Jeff, Grandma Willie, Aunt Cindy, Uncle Jerry, and cousins Kim and Amber for the whole week! Wow!! It was amazing :) We had so much fun doing nothing and just visiting with our family. We literally left the house 3 times... 1) All the girls went to get pampered together 2) The whole family went out to eat together in Naperville on Christmas Eve and 3) To go back to the airport to fly home. We played Wii a lot, ate a lot, talked a lot, and watched movies a lot!!

This is Aunt Sue & Uncle Jeff's House! How beautiful! Check out the snow around the mailbox!

This was one of the days it snowed all day and really hard!

Brett and Aunt Sue playing the piano! We have a natural talent everyone! ;) Grandma Willie (who Brett calls MawMaw Willie) kept telling Brett "You are hurting my ears!" So then when MawMaw Willie would play, Brett was quick to tell her right back "MawMaw Willie you hurt Brett's ears!"

Uncle Jeff teaching Brett how to play the Wii! You should see that boy swing at Wii Baseball... Uncle Jeff will probably take the credit when Brett goes to the Major League! ;)

One day we got to go out and enjoy the snow!! It was tons of fun!! We sled down a hill right behind the house! Alan and Brett before getting crazy!

My snow bunny! :)

He loved it!

Ok, so I'm not that good...

Mommy and Brett! He didn't really like the sledding idea very much.

We tried though! Doesn't he just look adorable? I love this pic!!

Cousin Amber and Brett liked to play "Bump- Bump" down the stairs! They were hilarious to watch:) Down and up, down and up!

I probably made 3 snow angels... This one is pretty good... huh?!?!?! I think I had the most fun ;)

No wait... Alan probably did! Hahaha... You should have seen his face!

Family pic Christmas morning :) Brett says CHEEEEESE!

The infamous DICE! This is now Brett's favorite toy! Aunt Sue has had these dice around her house for many many years and this was the only thing Brett had to have every 5 minutes to play with! She sent us home with them! Thanks Aunt Sue ;)

Brett playing the piano! Oh and cheese-balling it!!

The whole gang out to eat Christmas Eve night!

Daddy and Brett :)

Mommy and Brett :)

MawMaw Willie and Brett :)

Aunt Sue and Brett :) That's some good pizza huh guys?!?!

Aunt Cindy and Brett :)

The lovely Wilma Hagen :) She was so happy to have the family together!

Christmas with Grammy & Granddad Allison!

We started off our Christmas Season with Grammy & Grandad coming up to our house the weekend before Christmas. We had a blast! Brett opened his presents with just some assistance from us :) He wanted to play Thomas the Train, read his name book, and play Bob the Builder all at the same time! Mommy just wanted to play dress up and try all his new clothes on him! We did it all, but the best part was when Grammy, Brett, and I made a fabulous Ginger Bread House!
Big Hugs for Grammy :)

Our Ginger Bread House!! Brett did the colored candies on the roof all by himself! :)

Here he is saying "Look... I did it!"

Brett The Builder!!

Playing with Thomas the Train! Brett and Grandad built that awesome track!

Concentration... from both boys!! ;)

Fix it Brett!

Opening presents with Grammy and Grandad!

Some Christmas Pics

Here are just a few pics of Brett in front of our Christmas tree! He was being so silly!... As Usual ;) We had such a busy Christmas Season this year and this was just the beginning!!