Ho, Ho, Ho!

Since I know that most of our family and friends come here for the pictures, I figured I would post some miscellaneous pics from the past month....

We tried so desperately to get a photo of Mario and Alli....well, Mario does NOT like to sit for photos... there were tears and for something that should have taken minutes spanned over the course of an evening. Why do they make it so difficult? :-) Most of you should have received Christmas cards yesterday/today, so you will recognize these pics:

Of course, Alli just poses and poses, irritated, yes, but she will just sit there and smile!This one of him was too blurry to use... since he was trying to climb down from the chair! So, we used this one instead...
We finally were able to get both kids looking at the camera with Jeff behind me jumping and screaming like a moron! I have such a great hubby! and a patient daughter...
There were several of Alli reading to Mario, but since we did not send cards last year, I know that everyone wanted to see Mo's face!

Here is our mantle....

and our tree... where all of the bulbs have moved around... can't imagine why...that boy won't keep his hands off of it! Anyone else having that same problem? I seriously wedged the tree in the corner AND put a fence in front of it... and still his little hands go right for that darn thing!

Mario was SO frightened of the Easter Bunny, so we kind of knew that he would want NO parts of Santa...but, we tried anyway... we were trying to get him excited...

It was 10 degrees... and we were going to a plaza near out house that is about a half mile away....
"I can do it MYSELF, Dad!"

"WHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEE"

Buckle up!

ready!

He got these antlers....but, I will make you wait until the end for the Santa pic!

Afterwards, we went to Nanny and Pap Pap's house... Pap Pap had a birthday yesterday! Happy Birthday, Pappy!
Pappy has the largest display of "singing" toys for the kids... Mo is not totally thrilled with them, but Pap sure is! lol!
My mom does a GREAT job decorating for Christmas... here is her mantle...

I just liked this pic of Jeff brushing the hair out of Mo's eyes... he just is smitten with that little boy....

We will leave you with these 2 pics ... one of Allison that I love...I can't wait for Christmas for the kids... we are so blessed...
and of course, the final pic of what Mario thinks of Santa....
He DID end up saying HO, HO, HO to him and high fiving him... as long as Santa did not touch him or the ball that they gave him! :-)

Happy Holidays, ALL!